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My friend writer Helen Brown lost her iPhone. Quel bereavement! Because she was on holiday at Byron Bay and was just about to pack up and leave, there was no chance of it turning up under a cushion as might have happened at home.

New Zealand TV channels don't do overseas news until about 25 minutes into the news hour because they're so stuck on the idea that viewers like local news best. The only time that changes is when the world is falling apart.

Lindsey Dawson on sticky summer pleasures.

Read Allan's May blog right here.

From weather in Auckland to politics in Fiji, read Allan Dick's latest column here.

There is a very real possibility that before I get this column completed, the 30-second-attention-span New Zealand news media will have found something else, other than Shane Jones, to go into a state of terminal hysteria over

 Read more of Allan's blog entries by clicking here. For the past 12 hours I have ...

Instant Millionaires, David Bain, Simon & Garfunkel, MIcrowaves, Eels and much more.

 Read more of Allan's blog entries by clicking here. I feel like I’m back at school ...

m not sure who said that; maybe it was Roger Douglas, back in the days when he meant something to the nation? Here are some of my random thoughts and observations over the past weeks or so.