Posts by Russell Brown
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Craig Ranapia declares himself a conscientious objector when it comes to Kiwibank's war-themed ad campaign.
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OMG! He kept that quiet ...
It looks to be creating quite a stir amongst fans of songs and beer.
I'm guessing the director Todd Haynes is a fan.
It's either re-recorded or remixed from the original.
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__what it was was a slightly aggressive display of chinese nationalism, in downtown wellington.__
At least they didn't beat anyone up - unlike Auckland.
Careful with your long-distance "they", there, I/S.
According to the One News report, it was the march organisers who removed the man who started attacking the pro-Tibet demonstrators (who had set up in the middle of the crowd) then kept a few other hotheads back. The pro-Tibet demonstrators described them as "excellent" and "supportive".
And none of the three people arrested for assault and disorderly conduct were marchers.
The marchers had a right they wouldn't have in China. We might not like what they had to say, but the march seems to have been largely peaceful. Saying that "they" beat people up seems unhelpful to me.
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But it's an obligation to catch up with a few friends of old.
We understand.
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I have just watched this week's Media 7 on TV ON Demand. Really enjoyed it BUT the cynical media reaction to the terrible tragedy of seven sons and daughters lost was disappointing. "An embarrassment of riches"? Gawd.
Nevertheless, it was a worthwhile insight into how the "media" thinks.
For better or worse, it is.
The challenge of reporting a big story is both to do it justice, and to do it better than everyone else. It is competitive, but I think the news media largely stayed within the generous bounds they were given.
According to the school, the only publications that breached the agreement, tried to contact families directly (perhaps with chequebooks waving) etc, were the "women's magazines". (I sometimes think that's a term unfair to women, but there's no other recognised way of describing them.)
But as Shayne Currie pointed out, the effect of the openness was to take those publications out of the picture. So at least, it seems, there were no bidding wars.
That said, there was too much coverage for my taste. And I still don't buy that Michael Holland's stunt on Close Up was acceptable, even if it was the school that printed out the pictures of the deceased that he showed to his interviewees in the hope of a grief bomb.
And, having followed the the story quite closely in the media, I don't think there was anything that got me emotionally like Tash and Portia's YouTube clips, which are embedded in the Elim Christian College Memorial Page on Bebo. They giggle and mime like the silly teenage girls they were.
Having been placed there by their peers, the clips are perfectly in context on the page.
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I can't open the video file on my Mac with Firefox. Any suggestions. I'd love to see Williamson as described
You need the Flip4Mac components for QuickTime. That lets you play WMV files.
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If you lose 10 kilos, how will we find you?
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Very few disagree with the emotion behind the Key statement just the rationale. As has been pointed out if you invested $5b in the copper network you would get a better result.
How?
I thought everyone agreed that fibre is the best long-term solution and it's just a matter of what your time-frame is. If you're actually replacing the lines to every home, you'd replace with fibre, wouldn't you?
I haven't checked lately, but my understanding is that the actual cable isn't where the real cost is: it's to some some extent in the customer premises equipment, and more in the works component.
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My favourite NZ pint, I think, is still the Bellringer's best bitter at Galbraiths. It has just the right fruity tang a best bitter should have, and it's well poured.
It is a treat being able to get the Emerson's brews on tap at Bar Edward, but it's not a pub. As Jackie said, the beer garden is a valuable feature of any pub.
Although we should bear in mind that the New Zealand pub tradition is not a happy one, and long consisted largely of barns where a man fired beer into your glass with a hose.
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Personally, I have never heard of anyone, anywhere, not even Australians, who want ice-cubes in beer.
It's absolutely customary in Vietnam. You have to ask them to leave it out if you don't want it.
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