Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Heh. I remember we had an A30 when we were kids. I remember having to hop out & push it over those railway bridges South of Levin.
We had to be towed over the Mangawekas... (my dad was optimistic about what the car could do.)
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Sir Howard is a silly old twit, full of his own self importance and has been for years, who made some vaguely embarrassing records a long time ago
You need to see Don't Let It Get You.
Morrison is fantastic - you will wonder what on earth happened after that.
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90soemthing% of the time they get the right person.
I think it is reassuring to believe that. Although for those cases where there is a niggling doubt... I would prefer if those doubts could be explained away.
For instance, Lundy's sub-3 hour round trip - the cellphone calls placed him in Petone right? I've never heard it explained axactly how those cellphone calls work exactly, is there no way he could have engineered it to allow himself more time to get there & back?
Otherwise, it just seems too unlikely to me.
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Is this Denouncing NZ's Creative Industries week?
Hardly, I read it as a recommendation to see the guy, with some reservations if you've seen him before.
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a gift beyond your comprehension"
A useful gift for someone with an audience, no?
Maybe "a gift not quite at your comprehension"
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The cool movie critic James Berardinelli has written some great stuff about how the whole 'Based on a true story' movie genre sprang up to run an end game around burden of proof.
Here he is on An Inconvenient Truth
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The fault dockets were all for our newer, y2k compliant system
Tee hee... ain't it always the way.
"largely slipped off the front pages" is supposed to be a valid measure of the issue?
Probably a dangerous place to say this, but I've met more than one journalist who thinks that way - if we don't print it, it can't be news.
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In the end, the older systems all worked fine at the dawn of 2000, without modification.
That doesn't surprise me. I was completely unconcerned that my ancient PC (or VCR) & its software gave a hoot what year it was. And they didn't.
The system we were working on tracked residential tenancies, rents (and rental debt). Some funny things happened to accrued debt & tenancy tenures in the bubble, pre-modification. Nothing fatal, but it was good to sort it ahead, rather than after.
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I never cease to goggle at the trumpeting of Y2K as a non existent storm in a teacup.
Er... we did a shit load of work to ensure our computer systems kept going as they should the day the calendar ticked over, more than a year's worth with a dummy system in a time bubble.
There were date related bugs to iron out & no-one thinks all that testing, and assigning of resource was wasted.
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'shit-loads and depends on who's giving it'
And who's getting it too I reckon.