Question:
What is the correct form for a blog to take when the writer has been AWOL for a month finishing off his book?
Should he feel contrite that some people can bang out 800 words each day on, let's say, previously insoluble problems of the Middle East and income disparity, balancing environmental concerns with economic growth and still have time to do a variety of paying work, keep abreast of popular culture and get a new publishing house underway?
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Do publishers build in a month's padding to their deadlines to allow for the unreliability of their authors?
Question:
How long should it take to read through this list of entries and pick a winner for the iPod?
Question:
If that unwavering right-to-lifer President Bush had the power to execute anyone who removed Terri Schiavo's means of sustenance, would he use it?
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If a tree gets planted on Paul Holmes' show and no-one sees it, does it make the sound of a plane crash?
Question:
If there are 999 letter combinations available for any one of the AAA through ZZZ number plate options, how come we're already up to the middle of the C combinations and there aren't at least 1.2 million new cars on the road? (That is: for letters A and B: 26*26*999*2)
Question:
Is Aaron Bhatnagar the Wing of local blogging?
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Is Apathy Jack's blog everything that Aaron's is not?
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Do the clever, witty and pretty people at Dog-Biting Men blog as infrequently as I do because they use up their quota of bold type highlighting people's names?
Question:
If the election should yield no ACT members but a heap of Maori Party MPs, how much of his Treaty platform might Prime Minister Brash be prepared to surrender to get a coalition?
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If we all end up having to get new licences issued and have to stand in line for an hour and three quarters again, will we still think John's a top sort?
Question:
You have just taken a few days' break after completing your book and now have two speeches to write; content to edit for a website; a companion website for your book to be completed; a blog to be written describing the very interesting roundtable organised a couple of weeks ago by Ross Bell of the Drug Foundation; a backlog of emails to reply to and it's Easter in two days.
Do you:
A) Write like hell until Friday morning?
B) Respond with enthusiasm to your publisher's suggestion of lunch on Thursday?
Too easy.