Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to john Drinnan,
DISTRESSED, INDEPENDENCE AND HEAL THYSELF in the Herald media column
Here’s the link to make things easier for a new comment poster – welcome aboard.
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Key skills sought...
I see Radio Live is looking for a Parliamentary Reporter, surely John Key could also fill this role, what with his proven broadcast experience with them... -
a whole lotta shaking going on…
<edit> hmmm doesn't seem to show up, ya may have to click on the YouTube link . -
Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
IT lives…
a poor soul in Auckland Transport spent a good whack of time compiling the speed limit database for every road in the Auckland Council area. That’s 14,000 lines in an excel spreadsheet.
Using their much cheaper ($3.4 million) Microsoft (I assume) based in-house system – while the Super City Council plugs on with its expensive ‘start from scratch’ ($54 million so far rising over a decade to $500 million) Deloitte/Soltius/HP system (according to The Herald, and if their figures can be believed of course!!)
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publish AND be damned...
I would have thought that a Minister and a paper using the wrong figures to vindicate, or support, a decision to close a public resource, would fall under the description of fraud - or at least a scam, using a document for gain...
Down for the count...
...and how much longer can The New Zealand Herald keep that name, I'm sure I read somewhere recently (can't find it again rapidly though, dammit) that The NZ Herald is no longer physically distributed to the South Island, as it costs more than they get back - hello the North Island Messenger, or Auckland Crier perhaps... -
Hard News: Staying Alive, in reply to BenWilson,
a tiller the hum...
If farming could use entirely renewable energy.
I'm tilting towards windmills,
and clockwork wind-ups... -
Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Russell Brown,
He has to seek shade in whatever narrow place he finds it.
What else can a paw boy do...
Hounds of Tindalos?
is that like a Stephen Tindall loss?
and the Warehouse on the Borderland
but seriously that Frank Belknap Long story
disturbed the crap outta me as an impressionable yoof... -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to JacksonP,
Beyond our Ken... What's the frequency?
Sky.... I started to think I was seeing things.
Sky magic... Skymatic... Cymatics...
clouds... collude... Chladni...
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NZ on ear...
An hour hosted by the PM, but otherwise involving exactly what they’d normally be doing...
effectively an "aural billboard" I'd have thought...
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Hard News: Television and the Public Good, in reply to Russell Brown,
...being hit with such a large fine
Surely Key/National should be fined as well as they were party to it (as it were...)