Is this secure document storage? After that blunder in the UK that saw two CDs with the records of 25 million people go missing, you'd think everybody would be a bit more careful about how they move documents around, whether in digital or hardcopy form.

Yet this always happens outside our building, and I'm glad I had my camera handy to snap it this time. Pictured above: an international company that specialises in ultra-secure off-site data and document storage has sent a Taxi Truck to pick up a consignment. The two guys doing the loading were not that hands-on. Neither were they particularly fussed about me circling the truck a couple of times in a suspicious manner. Luckily for them, it was just to take the photo above.

Calling Erin Brockovich
Keen readers will recall that a few months ago, after a torturous series of phone and email exchanges, I managed to secure a new coffee machine via Noel Lemming's website. Now it's broken down for a second time. When one of our staff called to complain, he was told it would keep breaking down, because it's not a heavy duty enough model for a company of 40 people.

Naturally, I was pretty annoyed, and put in a call to Erin Brokovich. As we know, Erin's retail investigations don't extend to actually visiting the Southern Hemisphere. However, using her advanced sonar powers, Erin was able to analyse the situation from afar, and she told me that no soil contamination or radioactivity involved. I can tell you that was a relief.

Nice one, Sony
Least you think I'm only full bile this Friday afternoon, I will point out that I did enjoy watching the Phoenix play the LA Galaxy Saturday night. It was an entertaining game, and an all excellent sweep of publicity for soccer - sorry, football - in this country all-round.

The instigator of the event was off course Phoenix white knight Terry Serepisos. But it was also good to see Sony get in behind not just the Beckham game, but use the publicity around it to announce at two-season Sony sponsorship of the Phoenix. I'm by no means the number one fan of advertising around games (die Monster Vision die!) but this one's a Cinderella story. While the business magazine Unlimited was still in our stable, we had a parade of Kingz then Knights owners trooping through, each time promising a new start. This time the team really has gained some long term stability. Nice.

Pictured below: Front - Martin McManus, Sony New Zealand Managing Director and Terry Serepisos, Phoenix Owner. Back: Matt Walton Smith, Sony New Zealand Division Manager Consumer Marketing and Tony Pignata, Phoenix CEO.

(I'm not sure if Matt's moustache was meant as a stayer after Movember. Nevertheless it seems tasteful, and not prone to the kind of out-of-context apocalyps that occurred when CNN International picked up Jan's TVNZ interview with about the Kiwi bot-herder, and his sister in Norway nearly fell off her exercise machine when she say it on a TV at the gym. Turns out not every country had men growing huge, hammy handlebars, so international viewers had to remain bemused).