Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Cardboard Christmas Tree
what, no tubular bells, too?
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disaster mismanagement...
Sounds like New Jersey is going the way of New Orleans, post Katrina and Chchch post quakes - forced demolitions and Draconian actions - see this
And FEMA doesn't work in bad weather - of course, brilliant!
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Hard News: This is your public broadcasting, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Facebook is the wrong answer.
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to George Darroch,
...that I saw Solaris well before Alien.
Hope it was the Russian Solaris
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I hear there's an auction of Tarkovskyiana at Sotheby's tomorrow... -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Warren Clark,
…there are some things that are more important than money
Can we make teeshirts of that and send them to every Parliamentarian…
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to JacksonP,
Am reading Iain M. Banks
I just finished his Matter.
It is a big universe... -
I noticed John Key, by way of explaining his 'thinking', says that McDonald's should put more salt in its burgers - where is his head at?
Does he not listen to the recent Health warnings about too much salt - this Govt will kill us, or salt the land to spite us...
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Former broadcasting minister Jonathan Coleman announced in February 2011 that TVNZ7 would be canned. Two months later, he justified his decision by saying it had a weekly audience of only 207,000.
Why did he choose to ignore the more recent information when he got it - what drives these people?
These bastards have no scruples, and seemingly care not a jot about their legacy to the Nation.
I am becoming incandescent...
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
I say that about three times a day.
But do your bosses then go on to say it never happened?
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Danger Will Robinson...
Ill fated Novopay system leaky too...Sacred Heart deputy principal Alison Spencer, who is also an accountant, said she could access her own pay details, and add and validate her own leave.
And although she could not change her salary, she could have added as much extra overtime as she wished, and so could executive officer Irene Newrick.
Mrs Spencer was so shocked that she walked straight out of her office and told an auditor who happened to be at the school.
"I just need to tell you what I have just done. I've just accessed my pay," she told the auditor, who replied: "I don't think I want to hear this."
"There's no way I should have access to my pay, and Irene have access to her pay," Mrs Spencer said. "I can go in and do whatever I want to do, which is not good."(my emphasis - to show the head in the sand approach immediately adopted)
...but I guess our inability to design good computing systems may forestall this inevitable problem... - though we'll probably manage to do it by accident, mismanagement or oversight...