Posts by Russell Brown
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Only just caught up with the White House robots.txt story.
To explain: robots.txt is a document that appears on a web server telling searching engines what parts of a website they may not index for searching by the public.
Click the link above to see the difference between robots.txt on the last day of the Bush presidency and the first of the Obama.
How totally, geekily awesome.
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This sucks. I thought it was bad enough that I'll be having to pass through there soon but to hear that it might have been a totally innocent victim puts a realdowner on it.
It's a bit crazy out there at the moment. People who've been stuck on Meola Road appear to be trying to make up time by driving like maniacs through Pt Chev side streets. I thought a van that rounded a corner ahead of me was going to roll. I sounded my horn and shouted at the guy to slow the fuck down. A secondary tragedy with someone's kid hurt or killed would be really sickening.
Wow. Some Friday afternoon.
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The Herald is saying the motorway victim was shot by police.
But they're quoting the RNZ news report, and that didn't say the police did the shooting. I hope they haven't made a horrible cock-up there.
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And, speculating wildly in advance of the facts, but since when has purse-snatching been a capital crime in NZ?
RNZ News says the deceased was not the person being pursued by police.
The victim seems to have been shot either by the fugitive (who tried to hijack a westbound track after crashing) or in error, by police. Yikes.
It's bloody chaos around here at the moment. I made the mistake of popping out to the supermarket. 90 mins later ...
I did tweet from the midst of it.
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Russell: Granny informs me that someone has been shot dead in a police pursuit that involved a crashed car on the ramp.
Yes, but I'm sure that won't be of any comfort at all to the poor bastards stuck in their cars. You just don't do that to Aucklanders ...
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Well. It's Friday.
I stood up, went into the next room, and told that joke to my darling. She also laughed.
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Check here right now ...
http://www.traffic.aucklandmotorways.co.nz/
To see what's happening on the Northwestern motorway. Which is, very little.
Dude crashed and got shot at our local onramp. Motorway closed both ways between here and the city, and a whole lot of citybound people likely to be sitting in their cars short of Western Springs for some time yet.
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Which sections of the press or which sections to wipe?
Eeeeew.
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*sigh* Fine, but I'd actually like some sections of the press corps to wipe themselves off and try to remember what they're supposed to be doing.
Which sections in particular? I don't think the early days of the presidency have been poorly covered, given that we're all of two days into the new presidency, and the guy has conducted himself with a great degree of assurance.
It would border on negligence to ignore the great moment of an African-American entering the White House; ditto for the global reaction to the changing of the guard, and for that matter Obama's extraordinary domestic approval ratings going into the job. They're key parts of the story in these first few days.
OTOH, I was getting really tired of various lefty-liberal types writing him off two weeks before he was even in the job.
Given Hitchens' distaste for all things metaphysical, I'm shocked he'd be diagnosing rather tricky neurological events over the TV. Had Jon Snow asked him the lottery numbers?
Hitchens seemed to be saying that this was establishment knowledge, and it might as well be "out in the open". Who knows whether he actually knows what he's talking about.
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I'm just watching the UK Channel 4 news coverage of the inauguration. Christopher Hitchens said to Jon Snow that he thinks John Roberts had a petit mal seizure while he was reading the oath, and that he's had such episodes before.
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