Tim Calder

WordPress has just launched an Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog from your iPhone or iPod Touch. Wikipedia describes WordPress as a blog publishing system written in PHP whereby all data is stored in a MySQL database. Since iPhones have recently been released in New Zealand I would suspect that WordPress’s new application will support the growing movement of people starting to blog. I never thought I could get into this personal opinion/information sharing type of thing, but the WordPress interface makes it very quick and easy to write & publish a post online. Now that this system has been made possible using an iPhone (which now operates on a 3G network) the extended coverage will allow for faster information sharing whereby posts can be made instantly from the time of first thought.

Our share investment company Chicken Stock Group Limited has just completed its purchase of Scott Technology shares which is a local public company in based in Dunedin. Earlier this year my Otago MBA syndicate studied Scott’s as part of our Financial Accounting case study report paper. After establishing that although Scott Technology is small compared to it international competition, with its large amount of cash reserves and innovative history this company is well positioned to take on international contracts that the larger firms have pulled back from. Thanks to the support of our broker Peter McIntyre from ABN AMRO Craigs, Chicken Stock Group also has shares in the New Zealand Agricultural sector as well as Australian Health care. I formed Chicken Stock Group Limited two years ago with four other friends that attended St Peter’s School in Cambridge.

It was great to be able to attend my first Alumni AGM of St Peter’s School, Cambridge on the weekend. It has been a long time since I have been back to have a good look around at all the new buildings and facilities. Friend and fellow CSG director Hugh Taylor was voted onto the committee to represent our year. I am now looking forward to the next event which will be the Otago University reunion of St Peter’s School Alumni in August at Eureka Bar & Cafe, Dunedin. 

I am looking forward to attending the Alumni AGM which is scheduled for Saturday, 12 April 2008 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. in the Robb Sports Centre meeting room. This will be my first appearance on the committee, I look forward to getting involved. St Peter’s School has grown significantly since I finished my last year in 2001 with many new buildings and double the role.