ETA: Tax evasion.
He claimed the investment would be paid back within a year, and would eventually save the Government $5.74 for every $1 invested.

Where do I buy shares?

Firefox 4 on XP.

Not for the first time, I must admit. :)

'Spose I'd better upgrade to 4.

Warning: Open in new Tab has moved to 1st position on right click list in FF 4. In my experience, it will initially drive you to distraction.

At least until you download the menu editor and change it back that is.

Who still opens a link in a new tab any other way than middle-click?

Middle what? It's what you're used to I suppose. And my mice have no middle. In fact my Macbook have no mice. (Plural effusion)

ETA: Snap.

Dear Keith: Chrome sends lots of lovely usage data to Google, so isn't very privacy friendly.

Plus, some people working in buildings not too far from Parliament might be stuck on IE8 and, heaven help them, XP, although not?

I'm sure either squiggle-click or compost-click does the same thing (as does control-click on pleb computers).

Plus, some people working in buildings not too far from Parliament might be stuck on IE8 and, heaven help them, XP, although not from choice.

You poor saps can view the IE compatible one I made: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/budget-2011/budget-multimedia.

To be honest, I made this one only because I was sick of?

Nice to see it in visual terms but looks very dark for me – black on olive green not that readable.

Try it again in a dark room. If that doesn't work, try it in a dark room while taking drugs that make your eyes more sensitive to light.

The $23b supposedly spent on transport in 2009 doesn't seem quite right.

Yeah, kinda jumps out at you. Not sure what it is, but it's in the Budget expenditure data.

I have to concur ? I have reluctantly moved to Chrome despite my geek misgivings about privacy and its development model, and I don?t regret it. Having already moved from FreeBSD to Linux helped, though ? Firefox for all?

Some text contrast would help, but

Knew I was missing an ingredient (off to the other thread for tips)

I understand there's an open source version (called Chromium) which doesn't report all your browsing back to the googleplex. Haven't got around to installing it though.

There are a stack of privacy options in the preferences that basically say ?if you?re concerned about privacy, then you?re welcome to disable this extremely convenient (and in one case protective) feature?.

My biggest concern isn?t that my internet?

Thanks.

To be honest, I made this one only because I was sick of having to make shit work in IE. The fix invariably involves disabling AWESOME.

Understandable. Now imagine having to use tools that disable awesome every working?

Since we seem to be on an operating system, browser comparison thread, any thoughts on Macrohard buying Skype?

Right. Budget. Sorry. Mmm, yes, anyone?

I'm waiting for them to discontinue the Linux client...

Right. Budget. Sorry. Mmm, yes, anyone?

Oh sorry, I thought the thread was about data visualizations.

The space doughnut is interesting, but I?ve been refreshing PA front page every two minutes in anticipation of Keith?s analysis. Until then I won't know what I think of it.

Perhaps we should ask for a feature upgrade that auto-refreshes, like Cricinfo? Just to bring in a cricket analogy, since it already feels like a long cold winter (of our?

IE8, I wish! My building's pretty damn close to Parliament, and I think we have IE6. At least every other site I open tells me?

Just one comment: when I was in Data Viz School*, we were told to avoid red-green colour gradients where possible. Red-green colourblindness is much more common than we usually think, and?

Although, as Tom says, it will be interesting to see if my red-green colourblind brother even notices there?s anything on the screen.

I?m also looking forward to the analysis so I can internalise Keith?s opinions and regurgitate them at leisure.

4%

That is not my personal experience.

good thing they're fkcing up incentives for kiwisaver then. real good.

Just one comment: when I was in Data Viz School*, we were told to avoid red-green colour gradients where possible. Red-green colourblindness is much more common than we usually think, and a blue-yellow scale (while perhaps not quite as pretty) will be visible for more people.

Aye. It is true.?

http://wheresmytaxes.co.nz

What's the deal with transport in 2009? It shoots up by over 10x 2008's budget.

Ahem – been over here for a lil while.

Interesting that transport is now the 6th biggest area of expenditure. If you exclude finance and IRD it's the next biggest expenditure area after the big three of social development, health and education.?

Firefox and?

The Highway to Hell is paved with our gold.
;-)

Yes, breathtakingly breathtaking aside from the fact I have to squint like an old man at a salad bar (in IE9).

I think the point is that, given this is just a combining of two departments, it was probably already the 6th biggest area of expenditure (or close) and we just didn't know it.

Yeah, I'm pretty all the rail infrastructure work and new rolling stock could have been put on layby and/or constructed by slave labour...

Heh. Did David put you up to that one?

I suppose the reason nobody figured that one out was because eMail has replaced envelopes so they find it hard to calculate these things.
;-)

Fnahh.
;-)

Yes indeed. I am advised by our Chief Information Officer that a pilot of Firefox is underway and will presumably?

It's when the arcane grandfathered app is SAP or something, is used by everyone, was bought in 2003 and will cost tens of millions to upgrade that problems occur.

(Before AJAX was really practical, a lot of technologies replaced their fat clients?

ffffff Don't speak its name. I have some lovely analysis showing the increase in our debtor days as customers moved to using SAP.

Firefox drew a blank.

Clearly, wrong drugs.

Some would say that ad blocking is theft. The owner of the site, that you want to visit, may get some recompense for you seeing that ad. I only block ads when?

Works for me. can't think what that may be.
Have you tried the mail client?

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Or a form of consumer vigilantism, if you're browsing a site that makes shit up and passes it off as news.

That type of gaming of the system doesn't really sit right with me but am happy?