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• Post #4306757

  You are doing it wrong.

• Post #4109584

  You probably won't want to buy this software after reading this post. https://billbennett.micro.blog/2026/07/26/should-you-bother-with-norton.html

• Post #3925437

  Will be going into football rehab after tomorrow's World Cup final... and then it's a month before the Premier League fires up again.

• Post #3756726

  Last night we watched The Sheep Detectives. Tonight we‘re having Irish Stew.

• Post #3639498

  So the USA football team wants to cheat its way through the World Cup? https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c1myykx0gmxo

• Post #2659046

  Updated my submarine cable backgrounder to include domestic links. https://billbennett.co.nz/submarine-cables-in-new-zealand/

• Post #2168213

  If you missed it, here’s Friday‘s newsletter. https://billbennett.co.nz/tuanz-digital-priorities-report-2026/

• Post #2168212

  The fact that my iPhone autocorrects block cheese to bloke cheese when I type out my shopping list is evidence that AI is not entirely rubbish.

• Post #2168211

  I have written a series of neutral, basic backgrounders on New Zealand telecommunications that won’t trouble non-technical readers. Hope you find them useful. Here’s the one on submarine cables: https://billbennett.co.nz/submarine-cables-in-new-zealand/

• Post #2154648

  RE: https://universeodon.com/@digyoursoul/116525366610081417 Tragic.

• Post #1901520

  Today was my worst ever run rate at a Repair Cafe, almost everything that came across my table was unrepairable. Also noted how much busier the Cafe is now the economy is ticking down again.

• Post #1901519

  I’m so hungry I could eat a butter chicken tsunami

• Post #1901518

  While there is some similar resistance in New Zealand, it's not at the same scale. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/ai-datacentres-australia-opposition

• Post #1901517

  I'm not sure how to articulate this thought in a way that is inoffensive, but I sometimes wonder if being an Act party member or voter is a sign of metal illness.

• Post #1901516

  Network and cyber security in New Zealand: https://billbennett.co.nz/network-and-cyber-security-in-new-zealand/ A brief guide to network and cybersecurity in New Zealand, covering threats, defences and how telcos and agencies protect critical infrastructure.

• Post #1833320

  These kind of numbers are often publicised, but does anyone ever actually follow up to see if Microsoft delivers on its huge promises? I used to do this when working as a staff journalist and found the numbers never even remotely stacked up. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-23/microsoft-commits-18-billion-to-build-australian-ai-capacity

• Post #1833319

  This is not my area of expertise, but I can read and I can do arithmetic, from what I read and the numbers I see, it's clear to me that supplies of oil products are almost certainly going to run out unless the Iran war wraps up now. It strikes me that our government is in denial.

• Post #1833318

  Bloody Americans. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c2k3ed1glp1o

• Post #1833317

  Bloody Americans. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c2k3ed1glp1o

• Post #1833316

  MVNOs call for regulatory action on satellite texting: https://billbennett.co.nz/mvno-satellite-2degrees-market-share-broadband-code/ ISPANZ accuses mobile carriers of blocking MVNO access to satellite texting. 2degrees gains market share and TDL updates broadband disclosure rules.

• Post #1833315

  If you didn't see it first thing this morning, here is today's newsletter: ISPANZ accuses mobile carriers of blocking MVNO access to satellite texting. 2degrees gains market share and TDL updates broadband disclosure rules. https://billbennett.co.nz/mvno-satellite-2degrees-market-share-broadband-code/

• Post #1833314

  When I buy beer or wine at the supermarket or bottle store, I always make a point of showing the person at the till my age identification even though I'm in my 60s.

• Post #1833313

  My team, Chelsea, is going such through a terrible patch that I thought I might at least get enjoyment out of seeing Tottenham relegated, but I really don't. It's just a sadder, more dysfunctional, hide-behind-the-sofa mess than our sad dysfunctional mess.

• Post #1833312

  I’d like to see these two settle their differences with a duel: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/593675/musk-says-it-s-not-okay-to-loot-a-charity-as-he-takes-the-stand-in-openai-trial

• Post #1833311

  My wife, daughter and granddaughter have travelled to Mordor to grapple with the Eye of Kea. Pretty certain I know who will get to assemble the furniture.

• Post #1833310

  Tuanz report: Networks built, value missing: https://billbennett.co.nz/tuanz-digital-priorities-report-2026/ New Zealand's digital leaders tell Tuanz Digital Priorities Report that our nation needs to do more with the communications infrastructure. ComCom Fibre IM Review. One NZ signs API agreement with Vodafone.

• Post #1833309

  Today's newsletter for people who had something else to do at 7:30 am. https://billbennett.co.nz/tuanz-digital-priorities-report-2026/

• Post #1770135

  I thought this might be more obvious to most people, but clearly not. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/environment/593740/environmental-cost-of-cruise-ships-not-worth-the-economic-benefit-expert-says

• Post #1439681

  Found my Filofax in a drawer while looking for something else. Realised this was probably a more efficient way of staying organised than a digital alternative. It never spammed me or nagged me to buy overpriced services I'm not remotely interested in. Am seriously considering reviving it.

• Post #1439680

  When I was a kid growing up in England seriously rich people had to pay a Super Tax of 95%. The Beatles even wrote a song moaning about it. The idea seems almost unthinkable today, but that was the "swinging sixties", a time of great optimism.