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  • Hard News: Mighty Indeed,

    a bloody great night!!

    big congratulations to all the wellingtonista to worked so hard on this. (all i contributed was the toby jug, which i now see is firmly in the possession of mr. farrar)

    and huge regard to blam blam blam.

    maestros!!

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  • Word of the Year 2007,

    I was probably reading the LotR at age 13

    ah.. the halcyon daze.

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  • Yellow Peril: Bai bai,

    jesus... i hope russell forgives me for saying this...

    but i reckon that the halycon days of public address were just after you and keith joined the team. lots of posting, lots of debate. the big issues were canvassed and blogs were still a teeny bit guerilla.

    i think that's something everyone can look back on fondly.

    hell, even kiwiblog was interesting back then!

    all the best for that redacted world. we'll look forward to that tell-all corporate expose some time in future.

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  • Word of the Year 2007,

    the misuse of 'literally' as a synonym to 'very' - i.e. 'I'm literally gutted.'

    What, like a fish?

    nah, just means they haven't got the ability to digest literature.

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  • Word of the Year 2007,

    oooo... eggcorns.

    'pacific".

    ie, "he wasn't being pacific in his answers, he evaded every major point."

    uniquely new zealand in my experience.

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  • Word of the Year 2007,

    @ deborah

    yeah right

    someone you know tried to sneak that into a cabinet paper.

    got pretty close, apparently.

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  • Hard News: Too busy with First Life sorry,

    cyberspace also has this innate appeal to a particular kind of meat-space people, if you get my meaning.

    It's an anachronistic view of the future, that we will want to voyage forth on to colonize the universe, much as humans have done on Earth

    i've been heavy on the sci-fi reading lately, and the idea i like best is stross'.

    tinned monkey doesn't cut it in space with current tech. our best hope is to send our autonomous avatar out into the void in spaceships the size of a coke can. uses vastly less energy, low risk, blah blah blah.

    all these virtual worlds we're making are probably just prototypes of the spaces our avatar will live in on that journey into the galaxy.

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  • Hard News: Too busy with First Life sorry,

    the other point is that new zealanders don't really have all that much invested in africa, do we? so not much interest.

    why be concerned about the digital divide "over there" when it's hard enough to get bureaucrats to use a wiki? and almost impossible to get soem types of small businesses to download information off the web? (if anyone has a solution to the latter digital divide, please email me)

    as for virtual reality becoming a substitute for travel, the first question is what percentage of the bureaucracy actually get out of the country on junkets annually? i reckon you'd find the amount is a lot less than the private sector, and setting up the infrastructure to support it will cost more than the airfares!

    once again, 2nd life is a snazzy idea that just won't really catch on. especially in the public sector.

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  • Hard News: Too busy with First Life sorry,

    Second Life, however imperfectly, is the closest thing around to the network in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash for example

    and seems to be what it's designed to emulate.

    otherwise... so dull that you can guarantee only adults will be on there.

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  • Hard News: Back in the mainstream,

    "I've always said that it is not right to oblige and compel the present generation of Australians to apologise for something that they were not responsible for,"

    the last of the stolen generation, a practice established in the state of victoria as early as 1869, was taken from their homes in my lifetime.

    there's no "past generation" about it.

    that apology and reconciliation has been a long, long time coming.

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