Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: How to make more awesome use…, in reply to lprent,
Halo?... is there anyone out there?
We’re using Sphinx search at the standard. Runs as a cron service doing delta updates every 15 minutes or so. Does a full recalc of the entire site sometime in the morning. Reads directly from the SQL server. You can pretty well custom fit it to any data source.
Have I been asleep for a millennia and awoken
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Hard News: How to make more awesome use…, in reply to Lilith __,
Fur TIFF files...
Signed Colin photos for subscribers.
a kind of 'paws for thoughts' programme...
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to Nora Leggs,
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Hard News: Briefing, blaming, backing down, in reply to Kumara Republic,
the roads to nowhere...
Now if they can at least do an audit on the Roads of National Significance, they’ll go some way to earning back some respect
Well maybe not an audit, just a dose of reality...
Mr Brownlee said of the briefing paper that it indicated the Government was "progressing a very aggressive infrastructure problem"* but the agency had simply sounded a cautionary note about completion times.
"The Government's expectation is that NZTA [the agency] will expedite these projects as they have been requested and required to do, so I can't see at this point any reason why we would expect a slippage in the early part of the programme."*this could be the catch phrase of a whole new Road Sanity campaign
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to DexterX,
That indefinable something...
Talking Heads, The Only Ones, The Members, The Undertones, Devo, Graham Parker and the Rumour...
Hang on, weren't they all 'New Wave'? That was the bin I always found them in at the record stores...
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Simon Grigg,
The long goodbye...
...he moved to Brighton UK after Quays and hasn't been heard of since...
Thanks for that Simon, great gumshoeing...
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Roughan trade...
Was it also Roughan who reckoned that the only reason the Teachers' Union was pushing against this plan was because they wanted smaller classes so there'd be more teachers, therefore more money for them from extra union fees - unassailable logic apparently.The devil you know...
I still worry that the whole charade was a scam: 'create an untenable situation out of something that was already bad, then magnanimously offer to keep things the same', while diverting our attention from something else perhaps...The BIG experiment...
The larger class size doesn't really seem to be working in Parliament, some of the rowdier elements, bullies and class clowns seem to be holding the whole room back, perhaps a better quality teacher (speaker) and some aides are needed,...
Oh for the old days when we could cane a few of them, the detentions don't seem to be working, perhaps a letter to the parents (electorate) reporting on how they are disrupting the other kiddies might help. -
Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Russell Brown,
Prog gnosis... grim...
Disco wasn't the problem. At all.
What rock music had become was the problem.So, not what we were dancing to
but the way we were dancing to it?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Nora Leggs,
A gum blur.
knows when to hold 'em...
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Hard News: Friday Music: More Finding, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Wow - just wow.
I know!
Whatever happened to Gary?
and that club in Quay Street?
I still have and rate my This Sporting Life EP copies...
There seems to be a few Rumba bar clips on YouTube of various bands - I have a recollection of someone filming gigs round then, maybe Bob Sutton, Chris may even have done some, though I don't think these are from the "The Last Rumba" album weekend, but I think there may be one around from then with the dance floor covered in guitarists for a Tall Dwarfs song....