Today's kiwi dollar exchange rates

Jun 10, 2013:  NZ dollar = 0.7877 USD, 0.5072 GBP, 0.8354 AUD
(Above rates at 10.00pm New Zealand time.)
Jun 07, 2013:  NZ dollar = 0.7951 USD, 0.5110 GBP, 0.8378 AUD
May 28, 2013:  NZ dollar = 0.8106 USD, 0.5366 GBP, 0.8379 AUD
May 23, 2013:  NZ dollar = 0.8084 USD, 0.5361 GBP, 0.8346 AUD
May 19, 2013:  NZ dollar = 0.8062 USD, 0.5314 GBP, 0.8288 AUD
May 11, 2013:  NZ dollar = 0.8297 USD, 0.5402 GBP, 0.8274 AUD

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Review: The 10k Challenge Income Builder

May 12, 2013: Today I signed up for this program, which promises personal assistance as you progress towards a monthly income of $10,000. Check back to see how it goes.

May 13, 2013: What can I say? Anyone who can persevere with a program like this is a better person than I am. After only one day, and after joining only about six safelists, the whole thing was rapidly becoming a nightmare, as I struggled to cope with the flood of emails into the two Gmail accounts I had set up to receive them. I shuddered to think of the number I would receive after signing up with the 20 to 30 safelists I was required to join. Yet another problem arose when one of the safelist's verification emails failed to arrive, and I had to open a support ticket (which wasn't answered). In the end, I closed the two Gmail accounts and blocked the email address of my mentor. Frankly, I'd almost be prepared to pay $10,000 a month not to have something like this dominating my life.

May 15, 2013: I've picked up a few comments by Adam Waller, who knows a lot more about the 10k Challenge than I do: "35 Minutes a Day? Really? . . . after one month in I was spending 3 to 4 hours every day on it. The majority of that time was clicking for credits in safelists . . . You basically pound away at the safelists and text ad exchanges blindly hoping for a sign-up . . . It just didn’t work for me. I really believed in it initially. I even went so far as to purchase a domain name specifically for it . . . I was getting poor results and they [my team] were getting poor to no results. I would get emails from them and they would ask what they needed to do to get sign-ups. Honestly, I didn’t have the answer . . ."

Need I say more? I'm glad I'm not spending hour after hour pounding away at those safelists.

The dollar is mightier than the sword

A reference to the Chinese interest in buying New Zealand farm land. The cartoon from the Manawatu Standard of April 26, 2013.

Will Thatcher privatize the Pearly Gates?

Admission process less than entirely satisfactory: Cartoon, by Malcolm Evans, from the Manawatu Standard of April 10, 2013.

Christchurch's worries over

Prime Minister John Key get a great idea while on his recent visit to China. The cartoon, by Malcolm Evans, is from the Manawatu Standard of April 9, 2013.

Foot-licking festival

Last month, Rio Tinto's loss-making aluminum smelter, which uses one-seventh of New Zealand's electricity output, was offered a short-term government subsidy to keep it operating. The company rejected this over Easter weekend, saying it needed a long-term deal and was returning to talks with its supplier — Meridian Energy.

The cartoon, by Malcolm Evans, is from the Manawatu Standard of April 1, 2013.