Posts by Peter Darlington
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It's breaking my heart. As a reggae fan for the past 25 years, and a cricket fan, this was my tournament made in heaven. I've even joked with my boss for years about this being the greatest World Cup ever to go to. Well, he actually did something about it and is heading over on Friday, but he's not pleased gazing at the cemetery-like atmosphere we're seeing on TV.
I like the Windies, they're not the team they once were, but they still have their moments. They have one of the greatest players ever, and Chris Gayle looks like Shaft with a bat, and they (and their fans) deserve to wallow in this tournament with every advantage they can get. Shame on the organisers, tickets should be practically free just prior to games, and the crowd should be able to bring in whatever funky essentials they need to get the party going. And I mean that in the widest sense.
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One of the guys off Fat Freddys was interviewed on Kim Hill a few weeks ago and gave the theory that patriotism does indeed play a part with NZ listeners. We don't feel too good about stealing NZ music so we're more likely to buy it.
He stated that this obviously wasn't the case in Europe as they'd play to big audiences every night on tour while the accompanying CD sales were always minimal.
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There was an American guy on Kim Hil a few weeks ago who's idea was to make all music, books, software, movies etc... free of charge and for governments to give us a tax break (say $1000) that could only be used for supporting artistic endeavours. That way we could all vote with our feet re the stuff we wanted to support giving funds directly to the content creators while burning away with abandon.
Not sure how that would go down with the RIAA...
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TVNZ CEO Rick Ellis and Theresa Gattung met to discuss Telecom operating the kind of cacheing network this kind of distribution requires. It was not a very happy meeting, perhaps because TVNZ's view was that Telecom should do the decent thing and peer with all other networks at the regional peering exchanges, like it used to. Gattung's view was that instead TVNZ should pay Telecom for the privilege of reaching Telecom internet customers. There was not a meeting of minds, even a little bit.
I was at the Nelson Broadband Applications Conference in 2002 and had breakfast with Chris O'Donoghue from TVNZ and Rick Ellis who was between TVNZ's at the time. The two things I took away from that meeting were that 1. He saw TVNZ's initial stab at digital television, kiboshed by the Labour Govt, as a real missed opportunity, he was a real believer. And 2. He had a basic understanding of broadband issues and was a believer in getting the setup right in NZ. So I can well believe that him and Tezza wouldn't be seeing eye to eye.
He was most proud of his recent gym routine though, to be honest. Reckoned not working for TVNZ was doing wonders for his health...
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No. Perv.
Harsh but fair old son, harsh but fair.
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Peter, do you mean "Choke"?
Sorry, it was from the collection, 'Haunted'.
http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/books/haunted/guts.php -
Damian, you dirty blutter. I didn't need to know about that matches to nipples thing.
Try reading 'Guts' by Chuck Palahniuk, Juha. The only sexi time book to ever make me feel light headed. And not in an entirely good way...
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Mummy and Daddy have better things to do at 8am on a Saturday than watch television.
What's that then? Can we all join in?
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You hope, grandad ...
Pffft, I never saw why we needed to move on from Grep and Pine. Life was so much simpler in those days...
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I'm in the same boat Joanna. Lets refer to ourselves as "the lost generation"
So you're the generation that's trying to be the new Generation X-Files? Sure, you look fine, you'll have your time in the sun, several seasons and the odd Emmy in fact, before we all work out that you're going nowhere and take our ADHD attention spans over to this year's latest generation 'Gray's Anatomy'.
Mind you, that makes me Generation 'Tomorrow People'!?