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January 2010

Donation – Rainbow Youth

There was a fuss in the local press this week when a local gym linked to a particularly naff article in their weekly newsletter.
An Auckland gym franchise owner has apologised for a newsletter to members which included a link to an article entitled “Soy is making kids gay”.
Club Physical member John Kingi said he [...]

Donation – Oxfam for Haiti

For the first week of my new charity programme I’m giving money to Oxfam NZ’s Haiti Appeal. I’m always a little uncomfortable with the gross disparity between the coverage of crisis-causes and the many ongoing situations of need around the world – but there is no denying Haiti need support right now.
I must have had [...]

Doing the math

If I’m going to do this whole spent+10 thing I need a good way of tracking how much I spend.
I’ve been using Buxfer for a couple of years now to track shared expenses with Jo so it seemed easiest to go with that as a first option. Buxfer stood out amongst the “web 2.0″ financial [...]

Project Spent+10

I’m a relatively lucky guy (BMX accidents aside). In the same sense that anyone reading this likely is (unless you’re reading this on an OLPC perhaps…) – I was born middle-class in a first-world country at a time when opportunities were there for the taking. For the most part I’ve had the sense to take [...]

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