Posts by Sam F

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  • OnPoint: Breaking Point in Sri Lanka,

    And what do you know? The Herald just ran a story on the situation today, far inferior to yours, which was taken from the Observer. Link is here. Did you contact them before?

    Sigh.

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  • Island Life: A Rat At My Table,

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  • Random Play: Cash from Chaos,

    The thought of a highly-trained private army, combined with the obfuscatory skill and political amorality of a major corporation, gives me a highly specific form of the creeps.

    Who else is hiring these guys? Have they started franchising in the Third World yet?

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  • Hard News: Land-grab in the Magic Kingdom,

    You had two out of the three surefire Boing Boing flags (Disney: check. Corporate takeover of culture: check. All you needed to work in there was unicorns...). And it worked - you got boing boinged.
    Is that the first mention of Public Address on the worlds most read blog?
    Hope your server is ready...

    Actually PA got BoingBoinged way back in 2005, after Russell linked to the Starlords movie. And the server did indeed crash, from memory. Probably a bit more robust two years later!

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  • Yellow Peril: Pinoy ahoy,

    Goshdarnit! Meant to quote mark in that last one. This thing really needs an edit button.

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  • Yellow Peril: Pinoy ahoy,

    It's an old rule but worth repeating: don't feed the trolls.

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  • Summer Holiday,

    Currently spending my first January out of the country, in Changchun, China with my girlfriend and her parents. We went on a ten-day trip to Xi'an and Beijing just before Christmas - saw the Terracotta Army, the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and so much more - ran out seven rolls of 35mm still film, two memory sticks and 5 hours of digital video all in all. So I'm sated for travel until we go skiing in Harbin later in the month.

    We got back to Changchun on Christmas Eve, and had dinner with assorted cousins and family friends, but then a very quiet 25th - unwrapped a few presents and thought of home. Just a little snow on Boxing Day.

    Right now the mercury's hovering around -10 degrees celsius and we had a dusting of odd, almost feathery snow the other day. I'm currently picking out worthwhile events from the Asian Winter Games which will open here this month, fretting over thesis work, and planning book reviews on Nigel Cox and Carl Shuker for Craccum (as well as reading Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith, again).

    Oh, and hoping for a few days in the sun when I get back to NZ in late Feb.

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  • Hard News: More than a little odd,

    A friend of mine reckons that Xtra's 'all you can eat' plan is limited to around 700mb between 4pm and midnight, and simply runs his bittorrent outside those hours.

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