From today’s Sydney Morning Herald:

Much as it hurts to write a positive story on the Kiwis, we must applaud New Zealand Telecom for at least telling its customers what it really thinks of them. Thin-skinned Auckland businessman James Storrie has lodged a complaint just because when he opened his mobile phone bill on Monday he discovered he had been slugged with a $NZ337.50 ($277) surcharge for “being an arrogant bastard”. We think it’s about time providers of essential services and their customers were able to communicate clearly. An investigation is under way as to how the new charge was added to his bill.

Got rather excited this morning in a spoddy kind of way when I received my first piece of mail where the postage was priced up entirely in euros. Is the location tag ‘Paris Fr. Bonvin’ subliminal advertising for the French wine industry (’bon vin’)?

This morning’s breakfast show interview went exceptionally well. That’s normally a bad omen. Good trail, less good show, or disappointing trail, top show. Today, though, the show went well, too. Lots of very chatty, relaxed guests, who seemed to be having fun. We had a few activity guests, where we tried out services on the phone, and engineer Steve popped in to do web site of the week.

I’m feeling shattered now, though. This week has really taken it out of me. I drifted slowly around Tesco on the way home and purely coincidentally spent exactly

1. Subdued broadcasts
   Set the alarm for a little later this morning, so I was up just in time to make a cup of tea before the breakfast...
   
   
2. Selling your back-end services
   What I was doing still up gone midnight and awake at almost one last night, I don't know, but it made waking up and getting...
   
   
3. Mixed blessings
   I didn't think the breakfast show call was actually going to come. I'd made a disgusting cup of tea and was sitting in the study...