While my weekly sports blog is mainly focused on Western Bay sport, Sideline Sid is also an avid follower of what's happening in international sport. Two events in the coming weeks will ensure plenty of sleepless nights. The arrival of Sky Television... Read More

Last Saturday I attended the third Auckland Bar Camp up in Botany. This was my first Bar Camp and despite having read about these camps previously, I went without many expectations. Bar Camps started out in Palo Alto and the origins seem to be tied... Read More

Further evidence of Bay of Plenty being one of the real nurseries of rugby in New Zealand, has been provided with the selection of the 2009 Chiefs Under 18 team. Over the years a myriad of players who learnt the game in the Bay of Plenty, has made... Read More

When I wrote about CRMs I wanted to see if there was a local provider. It turns out a local company with a reputation for work in tourism has released something new. A quick email and I found myself at the Mount Offices of the Reserve Group with... Read More

Elected members and staff met with City Gym owners this week to discuss concerns raised by gym owners during the annual/10 year plan submission round they were affected by unfair competition from the gym at Baywave called In Shape. As one of four... Read More

The boys and I are getting a petition together. With all the two-legger talk on the topic of registering cats, we thought we would start the fur flying. We are on a mission. If it's okay for us intellects of the canine variety to have tracking devices... Read More

This is a question I ask a lot of people and invariably the answer is no. CRM is Customer Relationship Management - a tool for tracking interactions with customers and contacts. It's an address book, which tells you who does what. It should be as... Read More

It's been 40 years since the Americans faked the first moon walk. The second moon walk was of course achieved by Michael Jackson. Look where that got him. The moon has always been associated with a certain amount of lunacy and the US space programme... Read More

Wimbledon is always an annual sporting highlight but this year's titanic final between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick will take some beating. Roddick produced a performance that will go down in history, yet he still lost. Man, he must feel gutted.... Read More

One of the joys of writing a weekly sports update is discovering people and sport I don't always come into contact with, following my staples of rugby and cricket. I have made it my mission to learn more about the people and sport in the Western... Read More

If a business has your money or goods and goes bust, what can you do? With a few shops closing down or going out of business you might be worried about goods you have taken in to be repaired, bought on credit or are paying off on layby. And if you... Read More

Property values in Tauranga declined by eight per cent in the last year, calculated over the three months ending June 2009 in comparison to the same period last year. This, according to the latest figures released by QV valuations. It is an improvement... Read More