Posts by Paul Campbell
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(oh and are those on weekend furlough the week before allowed to cast absentee ballots?)
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Excellent thank you - I'm giggling over the thought of people breaking out of jail in order to vote .....
presumably people on remand (ie not yet convicted of anything) are also allowed to vote?
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Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Hilary Stace,
And without revealing in that one sentence something they would rather not have publicised. As in, "This is Garth, he has a wonderful model train set in his garage".
unless of course that's a wonderfully crafted euphemism for something else ..... as in
offering to steam clean the head of state's downstairs carpet for a modest fee
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Yeah I'm in 2 minds about PDFs - however PDFs do allow embedded encryption - do you think people will remember the passwords 100 years from now?
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to BenWilson,
One thing I do like in Labour's policy is the desire to make all government software open source. That's a vision.
Yup - a great idea - but far more important is to make sure that all government DATA is in open formats - not proprietary formats like word or excell (or pdfs for that matter) - all citizens should be able to read government data (and to create data to submit to the government).
Just as important, government data need to be readable 100 years from now for posterity - if historians want to read word95 docs 100 years from now they will need to have working machines that run win95 and word95. Better to simply have data in formats that are well documented and open
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Here's a Dunedin story about this issue, sadly, because it's a council owned company, it probably means rates will have to go up to cover this (and the million dollars the city was forced to fork out for the RWC)
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to linger,
Growing up down south no one added "eh" to their sentences - in fact I remember other kids doing it pretending to be from Auckland (to make fun of Aucklanders) - in 60s/70s very white-bread Dunedin I doubt anyone thought of this as being a Maori thing -
This doesn't mean it isn't a Maori crossover into English, just that it probably crossed over where there was a lot more more opportunity - I certainly still think of Aucklanders as saying "eh" (rather than people from say Wellington) - and when I was living overseas and after a decade in the US the NZ and Aussie accents seemed to start to blend into one it was the Aucklanders whose accent seemed to do it first.
Having all TV come from Auckland will of course eventually make all this go away as regional accents are more and more sidelined in popular culture
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to DCBCauchi,
We end our sentences with 'eh',
well you do - the rest of us hear that and think "Aucklander" ....
(or "Aussie")
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I think that OWS is less on people's minds in the US than people here think - I spent last week in Berkeley and while people in Berkeley were very aware it was going on mostly they were asking why the rest of the US wasn't paying attention - certainly Steve Jobs got ten times the media mind share last week
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I don't think the hotels expected anything more than being full - they know their business - some may actually be hurting because they're not full right nowbecause non-rugby people are currently avoiding NZ.
It was the various politicians trying to talk up the RWC's supposed financial bonanza who made a big deal about how much money they though the hotel industry would make