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Posted at 9:25AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

What's With All The Capital Letters In Tamaki's Press Release?

Is It Because He Loves All Words Equally?

Posted at 9:28AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

I was wondering the same thing - it might represent a breakdown in our nation's primary education system .... or maybe someone told him that writing everything in all CAPS was really like shouting and he should tone it down a bit ....

Posted at 9:34AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Ultimately I think a strong fundamentalist Christian party serves mostly to split the vote from the wingnuts. So it hits the likes of Dunne and ACT the hardest. But this particular bunch look like they'll only be hitting themselves (and probably their children).

Posted at 9:35AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Go and study the ads (on all Public Address pages, but not System) and you'll get the idea. Just post 'em in the discussion.

My goodness. Disable Adblock Plus for a one-time look at PA and it lights up like a Christmas tree! Whodathought?

Posted at 9:52AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Although frankly, I'm not sure whether any of them surpass the comedic value of Bishop Brian's press release.

Does anyone else get creeped out by Brian's mate Richard Lewis? Every time I see him I think he looks like a man who gets into bar fights at the weekend.

Posted at 10:00AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Regarding the NZDT on the Mac issue... via Rod Drury's blog there's apparently a little patch that some local Mac developers have come up with to fix the NZDT issue: here. I haven't tried it myself (yet) but hopefully it will do the job.

Posted at 10:01AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

I Know What You Mean About The Capitalisation! Self-Important Much?

Posted at 10:09AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Re: the Drury blog link, the updater is currently offline

"For the moment this updater has been removed due to problems found with Carbon/Cocoa apps"

:(,

Posted at 10:13AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

I Just Feel Sorry For Whoever Had To Type It Out For Him.

Posted at 10:13AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Spelling "Parliament" wrong is something of a master-stroke in the Tamaki release as well. Love those caps.

Posted at 10:16AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

I feel robbed of schadenfreude. I was expecting a lot more entertainment over the next few weeks, with the party ultimately playing a role similar to that of the Brethren last election. First off I was expecting a journalist to ask who would be number one on the party list ...

Now I suppose it's back to serious issues such as interest rates.

Posted at 10:18AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

The way this new christian party, and the previous Destiny Party, has been handled is not unusual in christian circles. If my memory serves me correctly, Destiny stated when they formed that 'God told them they would be the government in 5 years'. Therein lies the problem. They use God to justify their lack of logic and reason and to stroke their very large egos. A dangerous combination historiically.

Posted at 10:30AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

I LOL'd this morning when I heard on the news that the new pan-Christian party had schismed already.

So true to form ... "The Life of Brian" remake anyone ?

Posted at 10:31AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Time Zones? Linux had it sorted a few months ago. I guess that's the great thing about a system that lets everyone fix a problem and share it back.

Posted at 10:38AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

A little schism is a fine Christian tradition.

But I didn't expect we would get to the reformation quite so quickly.

Posted at 10:45AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Schadenfreude is a low and degrading emotion.

I'll just say this is proof that there is a merciful and loving God (and one with a great sense of cosmic irony), who really wants to be left out of New Zealand's domestic politics.

Can I get an amen!

Posted at 10:48AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

It seems the media have missed the point, as a former United Future MP explains:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00266.htm

It must be wonderful to believe, untroubled by reality. And Copeland's "I'm in damage control" deserves to be on any list of quotes of the year.

Posted at 10:49AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

So what happens if 2am Sunday week arrives without a patch? In most cases it will probably simply be an irritation. Rather than setting a time zone, you'll have to manually adjust the time on your computer.

And then do it again a week later when the old Daylight Saving time kicks in ?

Posted at 10:50AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

It surprised me that Corin Dann on NatRad this am didn't followup when Copeland said, more than once, that they (he and Lewis, I presume) were reading from a different page. It begged the question: "Well, what is the point of difference?" So we could find out what they were both about philosophically or theologically or ..... well, the conversation at their meeting was probably a bit more prosaic.
Lewis: "Gidday, Gordy, how y'doin, bro? Hey, neat office, aye? Y'reckon I'll get one like this? Where d'ya reckon I could park me Harley?"
And so on.

Posted at 10:51AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

I'll just say this is proof that there is a merciful and loving God (and one with a great sense of cosmic irony), who really wants to be left out of New Zealand's domestic politics.

Can I get an amen!

Amen Brother, Preach It.

Posted at 10:52AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

My goodness. Disable Adblock Plus for a one-time look at PA and it lights up like a Christmas tree! Whodathought?

No kidding. I'd forgotten all about ads...

What's With All The Capital Letters In Tamaki's Press Release?

Is It Because He Loves All Words Equally?

This Is Correct Punctuation For Proclamations From On High, You Heathen :)

Posted at 10:54AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Update: in short, Copeland & co wanted Tamaki out of the picture ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0709/S00273.htm

Did they really think the Bishop was going to exit the stage?

Posted at 10:55AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Ha ha! I love Copeland. If he didn't exist, some satirist would surely have to create him.

Posted at 11:02AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Craig's comment about God being a sort of Supreme Cosmic Ironist (actually, that's a great title for the old sod) is on the money, I think.

For those with an interest in these things, read the Book of Jonah. Its quite short and its hilarious, if you look at it in the right way.

One of the things which doomed this whole enterprise was the former United Future christian MPs have never liked Tamaki and his followers. They were full of outrage about the rally to Parliament last term. I suspect they didn't like the competition.

The thing about the Destiny leaders is they are, in both senses of the word, charismatic. None of the former United Future MPs - Copeland, Baldock or Adams - could be called charismatic in any sense.

In short, Copeland and Tamaki has had Bambi meets Godzilla written all over it.

Posted at 11:06AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Does anyone else get creeped out by Brian's mate Richard Lewis? Every time I see him I think he looks like a man who gets into bar fights at the weekend.

Was it Richard Lewis who appeared in their campaign ad last election? Standing in front of a mirror? In which he cast no reflection?

And yes, this was just all over too fast, I barely had time to enjoy it.

Posted at 11:07AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Speaking as a Christian, I'm HUGELY relieved the wheels have come off so quickly. The very idea of a "christian" party makes me uncomfortable, with or without Bishop B's involvement. As Colin Espiner pointed out on his blog (i'm too new at this to attempt to link to it but someone might help a brother out?), A "christian" political party kinda implies we all think the same and would vote the same. You know, just like all Maori vote for the Maori party. ;-)

Posted at 11:08AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

In which he cast no reflection?

LOL - do we have a link to that?

Posted at 11:15AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Welcome brother, Colin Espiner

Posted at 11:16AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

Opps, I forgot the big B in Brother.

Posted at 11:22AM on 20 Sep 07. Permalink.

There is more at stake here than emails with the wrong timestamps. I'm the system administrator for the Blackboard e-learning system at a university, and we're going to be in an "undefined" state on 30th September.

Our servers run on Windows Server 2003, and that will change according to the new rules.

BUT - the Blackboard application uses the BEA Weblogic web/application server, and that is heavily Java based - and Sun haven't released a patch. So on the 30th I expect that the Windows clock will show the DST change, but we really don't know what time the Blackboard learning system will show. How this will affect system logs, scheduled database jobs, due dates for student assignments, etc, is not known.

I plan to log on early to check, and if necessary I can set the time zone within Blackboard to Nukualofa - for a week. That's the only time zone available going forward an hour, otherwise I'd have to set it to Eniwetok/Kwajalein (Yes, it's an American application...) but then we'd be a day behind.

Since most Americans think New Zealand is somewhere near Vermont, I guess we shouldn't be too surprised at this. And it has confirmed my growing dislike of Java, that's for sure.