Thank you very much – I know I get a lot out of comments from people like yourself. It is good times!

This place has been hugely helpful in keeping my skills up, and acquiring new ones. So much so, I don’t feel guilty recording the first 15-30 minutes browsing yours (and others) each morning at work as training.

Cheers Luc,

We also post a lot criticising the idea of “targeting productivity” and all those righty ideas. I think we (or at least I) just have an issue of government targeting things without really have a reason – or being honest about trade-offs.

Here is the first blog post, James suggesting banning smoking from places can be a win-win:

http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2007/07/19/the-smoking-debate-redux/

Ha, that’s funny because when we started this blog we felt very lefty and in favour of government intervention. The problem is really that the Government keeps proposing the ‘wrong’ interventions!

It’s really cool to see ‘lefty’ ideas challenged in a constructive manner, and a manner that leaves one with somewhere to go, to boot.

So I hope you keep it up and, one day, maybe try some serious policy 😉

Pffft, I could deal with either of them.

The Wiggles on the other hand, they could be TVHE’s downfall.

Keanu Reeves

You raise an excellent point – TVHE turns six (having started at the beginning of the financial crisis), there is an earthquake and a fire at the university (sounds like it was in or around the library).

Sounds to me like the blog is the specific cause of bad things. The question then is, how does society destroy it?