Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Crashing the party before it starts, in reply to Jos,
he will romp in with a swag of friends
Actually, he won't as he needs to be a citizen, not just a resident.
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Lance Wiggs has a look at the report.
My wife and I had a difference of opinion on this, this morning. She read the Herald report and seethed about cyclists using the footpath, and not giving way to pedestrians, and she's got a point, in Wellington, at least. I tried to make the safety argument but it's a difficult one to make when you've got some dickheads who do intimidate pedestrians during the cross sequence and on the footpath. I get why some break the rules and ride on the footpath, but that doesn't mean you get you break all the rules. While some behave this way, all cyclists will be tarred with the same brush. And while NZTA maintains its "motor vehicles and motorways" focus, nothing's going to get better.
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Thank you, Russell. The first few Xmases after Dad died were hard, and there's still a gap in proceedings, but it's got easier to bear.
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Take a bow, Mr King
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FYI the subsidy is being increased and some pigs are more equal than other pigs
Sounds like electioneering rather than a strategy to me...
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Very please to hear this!
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Speaker: Levelling the Playing Field, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And let's be honest, there would have been a shitstorm of intergalactic proportions if NZ on Air has put a penny in a show set and shot in New York.
I believe they did pitch a show to NZ TV before they went to NY. It was set in NY and shot there, because that's where they were. It would have been a different show in NZ, but would still have been funny.
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Hard News: Awards and Rewards, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Robyn is a national treasure. I got to know her while I was developing and promoting the Govt Web Guidelines (now Standards) at SSC. And Steve I've known through tech circles for years.
Thanks for helping her get some richly deserved recognition.
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
and whether that much has really changed since 1981.
And also whether or not tyranny has actually ended in the former Soviet Union...
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Hard News: Mandela, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I will need to go hide away in a cave for a week or two.
Yes. I've stayed away from most meeja, letting others be my filter. There are some good ones, though, that have come through the screen:
and something a friend of mine said, privately,
Nelson Mandela. I will remember him, always. In my lifetime he is THE public figure that I most respect. He is the Gandhi for my generation.