Posts by Dave Patrick
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I joined IHUG back in the day when they started their "unlimited data" offers on dial-up ("14.4k modem - knock yourself out, download as much as you like"). Netscape was the only browser I used back then, and until version 4 it still was. But 4 was just too much bloat, plus it crashed on a couple of sites I used to visit regularly.
So for a couple of years or so I was forced to use IE (4, then 5) until Firefox appeared. Since then, Windows Updates are the only things I've touched IE for.
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Made the front page of the Press, because he apparently thought Christchurch people were "sexy".
But Fallowell also thinks Christchurch people have "spontaneity, madness and sexiness".
He refers to The Press as "the best (newspaper) in New Zealand".
In an earlier interview, he said Christchurch was a place "with a certain urbanity".
Spontaneity, madness and sexiness, perhaps. Highest anti-depressant and Ritalin prescription rates in New Zealand? Definitely.
And anyone who thinks the Press is the best newspaper in New Zealand cannot be taken seriously. Best newspaper in Christchurch, maybe.....
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xtra screens my spam for me except for some fake Trade Me stuff. Of course only God knows what else is not getting through... Oh what the hell probably only endless forwarded jokes and baby pictures only the mother could love
Ihug have been "fixing" their spam filter for about 4 months now, and you can no longer check the filtered emails online, they're just gone forever...
What I *would* like to see filtered though are those insidious chain emails that promise good luck if you forward some trite garbage to every contact you have, and dire consequences for people who don't. I've received them from supposedly intelligent people, who would throw a physical chain mail in the bin, but who somehow seem to disconnect their brains when dealing with emails
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Once again, Newtown Ghetto Anger NAILS the real issue
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Am I too cynical in thinking that the anti-EFB campaign by the Herald is largely driven by venality, as they stand to lose a lot of advertising dollars in election year if lobby groups rich enough to buy Herald ad space are limited in their spending?
Not at all - I can't remember the Herald leading the "defence against democracy" charge with such vigour when the Brethren were spending up large.
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Firefox + Adblock Plus means "what ads?" for me as well. it's amazing the amount of screen real estate you can regain by blocking the ads.
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Hamish McKay.......... *deep sigh* A man who can't string two sentences together without making one of them a cliche. A man who will, at least 3 times in a match, refer to a scrum as a "meeting of the front row committees". A man to whom the word "unbiased" only exists as an uninteresting concept.
Might have to be the radio commentary and the TV pictures methinks......
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The one doctor who is reducing his fees (according to the pamphlet we received which said "doctor's fees reduced") is going to be a busy boy..... (yes, apostrophe pedantry ahoy!)
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Open Office isn't an utterly alien environment though - it looks pretty much like Word and Excel once you run it.
And in my experience open source software delivers the same if not a better "user experience" than Microsoft's alternatives - Firefox, Thunderbird, any number of alternatives to Windows Media Player, Open Office
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I have some sympathy for Celia Lashlie's "parents need to learn to say no" position - if parents required from their teenagers a bit more information, and set some clear guidelines (yes, you can go to a party this weekend, as long as you have an invitation, you know the person who is holding the party, we have contact numbers including landlines to get hold of you, if you're 16 or under then parents or supervising adults have to be in attendance) a lot of the "teen" problem may well disappear.
But to say it's a lot worse now than it was 20 years ago is a little disingenuous - I think back to the sorts of things I was doing at 18-19 and just hope than none of my children get up to the same sorts of things.
And it's important to stay out of ordinary people's lives when smacking is the issue, but equally important to get involved in their lives when boy racers or child deaths is the issue? Cab't have it both ways, people....