Posts by Russell Brown

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  • PA Radio: Triangle goes Stratos,

    Triangle TV founder Jim Blackman talks to Russell Brown about the company's big digital move: the national Freeview channel, Stratos, which launches on October 3, and about New Zealand's shift to digital free-to-air TV.

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  • PA Radio: New Broadcasting Futures,

    A report on the New Broadcasting Futures: Out of the Box conference staged recently in Wellington. It includes commentary at the conference from South Pacific Pictures' John Barnett, TV3 programmer Kelly Martin and Freeview chief Steve Browning.

    There is much more audio available at the conference website here.

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  • Hard News: Free Man,

    During the report, the quote which was onscreen. Next to that they had a graphic of the website it was from. Since they had found the quote from your blog, they had a nice graphic of your webblog associated with that lovely quote mentioned above.

    Idiots.

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  • Speaker: Mixing it up, with stats like,

    They could? Jesus, I'm really behind the times. I'm off to a very civilised dinner tonight. I may need to throw those terms around, with a bit of a dirty cackle, and see if I can get a rise out of anyone.

    That's probably exactly how people end up getting written about by Bridget Saunders.

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    planning on buying a BIG version of the paring knife tho. yeehaw.

    Moore Wilson has really good prices on the Globals. The most useful is the 30cm chef's knife. But I strongly advise you to also buy a water sharpener (same place). It's actually not good to get Globals commercially sharpened all the time.

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  • Hard News: Free Man,

    Sorry to anyone I have offendered my fiaqncee wants my guts for garters...I'm getting marrioed in 8 days an my response has been a little uncouth...sorry Russell

    No worries. Sorry fixes most things. And calling Kowhai "Monty" was kinda cute.

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    Che does not make a hash job of the duck though.

    'Course not. He's working with a Global there. Single-piece Japanese stainless steel, and the favoured blade of Anthony Bourdain. Respect.

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    Che's site is blocked where I work, for its pornographic content.

    Actually, if you squint your eyes, that whole duck pictorial kind of looks like porn.

    Not that I am suggesting anyone do so. That would be weird.

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    Our rugby blogs are really breaking the mould here, huh?

    You don't get this stuff from Wynne Gray.

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  • Hard News: Free Man,

    Ah. Gordon Campbell has much more detail on Anwar Haddam:

    In reality, Anwar Haddam has never hidden the fact that he, Mohammed Said and Abderezzak Redjam were the three FIS leaders who had sought to build a bridge between the FIS and the more militant GIA during the 1993-95 period.

    Said and Redjam paid for this attempt with their lives. Nothing that Zaoui could say now in 2007 about Haddam could possibly help the CIA. Any conversation in 2007 about Haddam between Zaoui and the SIS would almost certainly have been related to the SIS’ own misguided attempt to link Zaoui to Haddam, Said and Redjam as extremists, in order to bolster their case.

    Such a tutorial for the SIS was all part of teaching them the basic facts of recent Algerian political history, which they have been chronically inept at understanding. End of story. Zaoui is not, and has never been an extremist or a CIA informer. What was news to the dum-dums at the SIS in 2007 about the Said/Redjam affair, would hardly be of value to the CIA today, which has rather more pressing things on its mind.

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