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Kick in the Nutbrowns I have a blog over at Public Address. It's a nicer, kinder place where I try to put up more intellectual thoughts and reasoned arguments. Whereas the Dropkicks is a little more informal.

A 100 person poll in Tauranga August 29th, 2008 at 11:30 am Just been e-mailed a story from the Bay of Plenty Times. It is not online. They did a “snapshot survey” of 100 voters in Tauranga. Now 100 gives a 10% or so margin of error and it isn’t strictly scientific as it is of people who happened to be out on the streets.

Sixteen cows were electrocuted  on a Bay of Plenty farm when a twister brought down high voltage power lines. The tornado ripped through the Jackson Rd area, east of Opotiki, accompanied by heavy rain and hail. It also demolished two barns, scattered trees and wrecked hundreds of metres of fencing.

Yummy, yummy, yummylicious! click photo to enlarge What is that little delight that brightens up cold days like this? This of course, my little winter comfort food. Yes, it’s kiwi season again! No, not that bird! The fruit! The green sourly fruit that makes our mouth water.

It's just an hour flight, but you have to transit in Sydney for 10 hours The MIGHTY Bay of Plenty rugby team traveled to Blenheim to play their first match of the Air New Zealand Cup. This is a flight that would usually take an hour or so.

Mark Zuckerberg [ Facebook ] 23 years old | $700M Andrew Gower [ Runescape ] 28 years old | $650M Blake Ross and David Hyatt [ Mozilla ] 22 years old | $120M Chad Hurley [ Youtube ] 30 years old | $85M Angelo Sotira [ Deviant ART ] 26 years old | $75M John Vechey [ PopCap Games ] 28 years old |

If Waikato is the food bowl of New Zealand  as Lianne Dalziel said in justifying the appointment of former MP Dianne Yates to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Board, then the province needs to improve its marketing.

Home loan affordability improving finally June 18th, 2008 Lower interest rates and flat house prices helped improve housing affordability in May to its best level in more than a year, the Wizard Home Loan affordability report shows.

The Magic are just that... The Bay of Plenty/Waikato Magic are finally showing their skills. Having recovered from a terrible team-wide illness in the early weeks of the competition the Magic have stormed back and look like the contenders they are supposed to be.

Dance this one off... The Magic kicked the Northern Mystics arse as they finally shook off an illness that had struck the whole team the last two weeks. Irene van Dyk (New Zealand's favourite sportsperson) shot 82 percent (31/38) and her shooting partner, Maria Tutaia, 81 percent (25/31) against Vilimina Davu and Leana de Bruin.