Posts by Steve Barnes

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  • Readers' Tips,

    ordinary soap, a bit of warm water, and a soft cloth or - if you're daring - brush.

    Try the dish washer they come out really floppy and you can make great looking fruit bowls out of them. Also Wire brush and acetone is really good for that authentic scratchy sound.

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  • Readers' Tips,

    1. has anyone mentioned ctrl+enter when typing in urls? It adds the http://www. and the .com (should that be your destination)

    As jon_knox says, try Opera.
    Opera is totally standards compliant, unlike IE.
    In Opera you can set up auto completion to append .co.nz but Ctrl Enter will auto complete .com. There's lots of other goodies too and it was first with tabbed browsing and it has built in eMail and notes and mouse gestures and and and.
    Well I like it anyway. ;-)

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  • Stories: The Internet,

    Xtra: with an 'e', how else?

    Snap, only I was with Woosh, not Whoosh. Why do they do it?

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

    wetapunga (the God of ugly things).

    Fnahhh

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  • Hard News: Rain on his parade,

    both sides of this particular argument would take some time out and think

    I guess that's what I meant by "sense will prevail" We have parliament to do our dirty work for us and sometimes that work is to dirty for even them.
    Did I feel a cold, damp, malodorous wind blow through here about 1.15 this morning?

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  • Hard News: Rain on his parade,

    Now, shall we all start debating the 'Smacking Referendum'?

    The referendum will be non binding but it would not surprise me if the numbers go toward "repealing the anti smacking bill". The point is that reinstating section 57 would be political suicide for any party that goes down that path. Even if the referendum gets the votes by the time it gets back to the house, if it ever does, sense will prevail. No one wants to be considered to be in favour of child abuse.

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  • Hard News: Rain on his parade,

    I'm just so over this rain, it's just so, well, er,wet and it just goes on and on. Eh.

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  • Random Play: An aerial ballet of steel…,

    for a lifting bridge at the entrance to the Viaduct Harbour,

    For clarity's sake. The entrance to the Viaduct Harbour is not the same as the harbour bridge. There used to be a lifting bridge there before the area had it's makeover for the Americas Cup in 2000. I'm pretty sure the lifting bridge was between Quay St. and Jellico St.

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

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  • Hard News: Just marketing to the base,

    How old is the Earth? If I were to suggest a topic for Vision to teach it would be called, "In the Beginning". My answer is: Less than 10,000 years.

    posted by Grant Dexter

    Ignorance.

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