Had Caesar (Julius) not dealt to the Germanic tribes (crossing the Rubicon anyone?), he would not have come home all triumphant and got the top job.

Sorry, history geek here. Casar subjugated Gaul to build his political capital back in Rome. He did make forays into Germany & Britain at the…

then i thought... "don't…

Thursday was the hottest day I have ever experienced in Wellington

Its always like that, but its supposed to be a secret

I guess it's very had indeed to Do No Evil...

"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire...".

My history teacher used to say that, from time to time. The unification of Germany was a major part of the 6th form history syllabus – there was definitely a German people before there was a German nation,…

German state as such is probably better defined as dating from the Holy Roman Empire

I remember once having to write an essay based on the following statement:

"The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an empire...discuss".

David Haywood as the resident PA German anthropologist might like…

Briefly, the principles require that financing where the activity is socially and environmentally sustainable

So Westpac are stopping investing in Australia then?

although, according to some terribly important scholarly book i once read, german identity did predate the formation of the german state.

The German state as such is probably better defined as dating from the Holy Roman Empire, around (and this is from memory) about 900 AD when Charlemagne bought together…

My anscestor was from Hannover, we own ALL the English.

i) Are you prepared to take responsibility for them ?

ii) Not all of those who reside within the British Isles recognise the Saesneg crown.

Meibion Glyndŵr... Cymru Cymraeg....Da Da Da

Early adopters wrote journals, not blogs.

This is true. The online journal scene of the late '90s had nary a blogger in sight.

While technically this was because the word blog hadn't been invented yet, there was still a different feeling to those ye olde websites. There was less of…

not that this should impeded joanna's impending state.

As for Bertie, bless him, being German, technically Germany wasn't German until...history nerds, help here please.

1871, blame Bismark (although arguably the German Confederation predated it by some 60 years but that was more like a prototypical EU) ....and Bertie's wife was Teutonic anyway, of French extraction. The English haven't…

I'm sure Helen Clark and Russell Norman will be pleased to know tobacco companies are verboten

That really depends on how long a bow you wish to draw.

Superfund owns GPG. GPG completed a reverse merger with Brunel (to acquire large wodge of tax write-offs). Brunel once made tobacco processing…

Sue: Are you trying to destroy my "everybody loves Joanna" buzz?

no
however i do plan to drink at least 4 fruity cocktails, those and being 55% sober do not mix.

I take no responsibility for any Googling arising from this posting.

My ancestor was from Hannover, we own ALL the English.

You! Windsor! Pwned!

And in regards to this:

The lady bloggers of Wellington were out in force. Jo from Hubris, the queen of them

Before anyone else emails me about that damn b word, I…

Well, up to a point. As I pointed out on Tony Milne's blog, 'ethical investment' is one of those warm, fuzzy cant phrases it's pretty hard to object…

But what I missed most of all was lack of sausages!

Oh, but those bagels chips were so good.

Jeeze it was nice up there though.

It was a ripper of a venue. Watching the city lights all around was magic and gave Vospertron a run for their money. (BTW, Amanda took a brilliant photo of the dancers in action.)

But the venue felt a bit too big. I…

CSR (as represented by Equator principles) is an interesting phenomenon.

While there are more than a few big corporates in NZ heading down the CSR path (not sure about Equator) it would be interesting to know why.

I'd argue they are doing not out of pure altruism, but because…

I thoroughly enjoyed the Great Blend, thanks again to you and everyone else involved – a unique and welcome event.

If you want the full 'oldstyle town hall' experience then yeah, the venue was perhaps just a bit…

Maybe it would have helped if the panel was split?

The corporate folk might have had more opportunity to…

I was a stunning venue, I particularly loved the curves and thought that had so obviously gone into the design of the place. The glass also created some amazing…

In the end, I suspect it will prove impossible to run a viable investment portfolio without running into some moral complication – such is the sprawl of corporate capitalism – but this is a useful controversy if it obliges us to more clearly define some ground rules.

Small wonder then…