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1. Happy.
2. New.
3. Year. (See also, yeah!) -
Islander, you may well know about this little fix from Apple for Mail released on Dec. 22, but just in case.
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Happy New Year everyone - Islander, sorry to hear about your mac probs. We have leopard on the other two teachers' macs. I refuse to have it. Too many glitches. We deal with Renaissance - RED - and they also refuse to believe that it could have anything go wrong with it.
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If you would all indulge me, what I've been doing prior to the New Year is taking my water hating dog to Takapuna Beach and convincing her that the ocean is her friend. And I finally did it.
I'm a proud mama.Why such a big deal, you may ask. Well, over 2 years ago, she broke her back and had very expensive surgery. Sort of remortgage the house expensive. Along with homegrown physio, and climbing steep hills as regular exercise, it was suggested that we think about hydrotherapy. Very, very dear. And a dog who hated water. Not a good combination. So imagine my surprise, and delight, when we started to go to the beach with her dog pack a few months ago, and she started to go in the water. And then yesterday, as you can see, she swam. Not quite at the same level of accomplishment as writing a book, or hosting a conference of thinky people, but still. What I did in my holidays? Can't get any better than that for me.
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I'm a proud mama.
Happy new year Jackie, I am assuming the dog in question is the little one in the middle of the photo. Although the black one does suggest it really is no big deal :) I'm off up north to Doubtless Bay area and to friends without power but some do so I might check in later. My dog (Stella) adores the Coca Cola lakes up there. It is a bit of a spiritual place for anyone who discovers them and Stella is in her element there so we will send positive vibes to your dog for you.
Thank-you for the birthday wishes . I like that I am now Sofie 1 Islander. Adios amigos. -
Happy birthday, Sofie, and happy new year to you too. Well spotted on the dogs btw. Have a fantabulous time up North and big sloppy cleo kisses to Stella.
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Happy New Year everyone.
Enjoy your holiday up north, Sofie - sounds a lovely place.
Fingers crossed that new Mac comes right for you Islander. I wish you an especially inspired year.
Jackie, your dog (Cleo?) is blessed to enjoy your unwavering devotion - as are your pupils. Water is a great healer and I hope your success portends more to come for the year.
I'm hoping for a watershed year, feel like I'm spiralling up and out of something, a bit like I've been underwater awhile and am heading for the surface, expecting unfamiliar air. I won't arrive at the same place I went in.
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interesting tv line up for new years eve.
not one round up of the year, tv party and count down etc.
guess tv must really be dead as a relevant social format -
I'm hoping for a watershed year, feel like I'm spiralling up and out of something, a bit like I've been underwater awhile and am heading for the surface, expecting unfamiliar air. I won't arrive at the same place I went in.
What a lovely phrase Kerry. I admire your positivity.
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Kerry
That probably sums up the current state of humanity.Robbery
TV7 on Freeview covered the New Year, showed the fireworks on the skytower. -
thanks hilary, I should have specified terrestrial tv.
channels 1-4 and prime.
used to be that 2-3 of these channels had the big new years thing going down.freeview still requires cash input and I don't think prime is on it either?
I was in Taipei once and had researched ways to get from the airport to town the cheapest. There was a bus listed called freebus so I found out where it departed from and waited, climbed aboard and got charged $15 for the ride. apparently freebus was the brand name, it wasn't actually free, silly me for thinking it would be. -
Robbery, I was thinking the same thing about the lack of coverage of the New Year countdown. National Radio did, but TV abysmal. Yet lots of families and kids want to be part of more than a re-run of the Sound of Music, or a public concert.
Having had Freeview now for two days, I realise that is where public TV has gone. TV6 and 7 have some great programmes, hardly any ads, news programmes at sensible times, and lots of NZ stuff - like coverage of New Year. So it is shocking that it is only available to those who can afford a freeview box. The state broadcaster should be giving them to the citizens.
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Still it's a whole lot better than paying for Sky and getting nothing you want to watch. At least you only pay once and there's a surprising amount of good stuff. I haven't managed to watch a DVD in ages.
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What a lovely phrase Kerry. I admire your positivity.
Why thank you, kind sir. I look forward to more of your well-measured and erudite postings from Sydney this year. :-)
That probably sums up the current state of humanity.
Quite so. The Powerful Ones just need to remember their humanity. And quit worshipping Mammon to the exclusion of all else.
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paying for Sky
I'm surprised sky hasn't pulled its finger a bit more to lessen the impact of pirated tv downloads.
It really is the poor cousin of what it is trying to impersonate in american cable channels. everything's so out of date on there.in chch we had a city council concert with a lame covers band playing top 40 hits from the 60's - 90's. At least the fire works were nice.
maybe people weren't really into celebrating a very tiring year marked with exhausting elections and economic turmoil. It doesn't feel like anything finished this year and all we got was the opening of a whole lot of uncertainty.
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You sound a box of birds, rob... get anything good for xmas?
Uncertain times - well, I've heard Bollard say we're moving out of recession and English say we're moving into it, Some say China's crashing but I also read somewhere they still expect to be 5th fastest growing economy, so I guess you can take your pick.
I was surprised we even made it to the 21st century. :-)
Didn't celebrate or mark the new year myself - usually at least have a bonfire and music to farewell the old year. And write down all my mistakes and crap decisions and burn them. very cleansing. Nothing I needed to burn, tho, so that had to be good!
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Why thank you, kind sir. I look forward to more of your well-measured and erudite postings from Sydney this year. :-)
That's the nicest thing anyone's said to me all year :>
But seriously, there's nothing well-measured about me tonight. I'm just f**king hot! Where's the forecast late change and storm already!
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get anything good for xmas?
yeah, a day off :)
didn't mean to sound grumpy, jut observing the apparent lack of celebration elsewhere and wondering why. celebration and levity is contagious but its hard to get infected if it's missing for the year.
what happened to good old population manipulation? are our puppet masters all worn out after a hard year of bullshitting us? -
I've just lost my massive rant about TradeMe. Which I should have written on a piece of paper and then filed it under "Bullshit".
Phew.They'd probably sue me for breach of something if it had gone through.
Miserable NW winds here and not enough rain. Oops. Wind changed to southerly, but still no rain.
Christmas in Wellington was marvelous. Coming home to 26 degrees in Otago even better. Venison from our own (wild) bambi for New Year's dinner and Ric's home brew stout.
A good rain to fill the tanks is all we want now (but not a deluge, please).
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I've just lost my massive rant about TradeMe.
something to do with them deleting accounts cos they're bored with making all that money for sitting on their arses letting an automated site do its thing?
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are our puppet masters all worn out after a hard year of bullshitting us?
After a bit of frivolity, they'll be thinking up new spin - extra-creamy b-s, you can be sure.
Was there no good bands in Chch on NY eve?
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That robot stuff is pretty freaky...
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Many thanks for the supportive messages good people - Joe, I tried that fix - it refuses to install itself on my 10.5.6 updated Leopard hard drive...but having disabled Expose, things are much more stable...Jackie, great your dog is now able in water, & I now share your distrust of Leopard - it's the shakiest Mac OS I've encountered (and I've been using them for nearly a decade.)
Hogmannay was - odd. We normally have firstfooting & a hangi & fireworks but important elements of our hangi team were away - the weather wasnt right for fireworks - and there werent a lot of Scots-derived folk ready to venture out...
still, it's a new year, and may it bring joy & unexpected pleasures as well as good health & happiness to everyone - kia ora tatou katoa!
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Leopard - it's the shakiest Mac OS I've encountered (and I've been using them for nearly a decade.
So some others say, & I don't doubt them. Still, 10.5.6 is OK here, but I had a bumpy few initial hours ironing the bugs. If we must geek a little to keep ourselves from being at the mercy of the likes of Totally Mac et al, then geek we shall. Good on you.
Still, what can you expect from a former personal computer company that's now mostly about portable music players and (cough) telephones ?
Eventually, everybody ends up hating the phone company.Happy new year to you all.
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Was there no good bands in Chch on NY eve?
that's a loaded question.
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