The debacle over the first bills from Tiaki Wai this week stirred up old memories. (Image: NZME)Many of you may remember me as the junior press secretary who leaked the Budget in 1986. For the next instalment, fast-forward to mid-2006, during my exalted time as head of communications at Contact Energy.In a reasonably successful bid to be liked since being understood was too hard, Contact was sponsoring Coronation Street. It was 2006. The olden days.Brand newWe had a romantically entangled cartoon tūī and kererū tell Coro-heads to pull their curtains and keep the heat in, just as the sun went down and an evening of linear telly b...