Disclaimer: George worked for both the DSIR ChemDiv and Industrial Research Limited and, as everyone will tell you, is prone to viewing the science landscape through rose-tinted glasses. He doesn’t think he made anything up completely but perhaps check with Auntie Google. MBIE is beavering away setting up the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Technology…
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Institutional Caps for MBIE Transition Funding
Disclaimer: George was educated to be a good Christian gentleman and so when he is asked to talk about something positive, he does his best. He can also tell you that Matthew Chapter 13: Verse 12 reads, “For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not,…
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It’s not what you don’t know that kills you
Disclosure Statement: George usually ties his tie with the ‘Nicky’ and occasionally the ‘Oriental’. He is inclined to be judgmental of people who use the ‘Pratt-Shelby’. I have always been keen on knots. I think it comes from Dick Callum worrying how John would feel about the knots he used to rescue the cragfast sheep in…
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The World Moves in Swivels and Bops: real gamers don’t use wifi
Disclaimer statement: George did computer studies in 1980, submitting his programs on punchcards. He still remembers the telling off from the technician he got for inadvertently programming an infinite loop that hung up the VAX for the whole night. Given time he can multiply in hexadecimal but doesn’t speak Klingon. As though it wasn’t obvious,…
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