Posts by Russell Brown
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Simon Grigg, as is his way, has blogged his current trip home to Auckland.
As ever, he sees things we don't.
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I drink light beer sometimes -- Mac's Light (2.5%) is the best of them, but even Clausthaler (which seems to come in either zero or very low alcohol versions) is pretty good, although with that you're quite conscious of the gap in the taste where there alcohol should be.
I like the taste of beer -- it's quenching and it's one of the few cold drinks (yes, obviously, apart from water) that isn't sweet, which makes it good with food. Mostly, it's nice to be able to guzzle one back on a hot afternoon without committing to 5% alcohol.
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The Big Day Out timetable is finally published.
The mainstage lineup looks kinda weak to me once you take out Neil Young, although there will doubtless be a lot of people excited about TV on the Radio (4.10pm) -- but Serj Tankian followed by, um, The Living End (they're from Australia) from 6pm-8pm? Also, Pendulum, a drum 'n' bass act, are playing in the middle of the afternoon, which is odd ...
In the Boiler Room, there's a golden early-evening spell of Simian Mobile Disco, Holy Ghost! and Hot Chip. And then the shithouse Australian trance DJ comes on, but you'll be watching Neil Young anyway. The Prodigy finish up.
The alternative stages are a mixed bag, with nothing to interest me from 7.15 when the Mint Chicks finish until 10.30 when the Headless Chickens start. The Ting Tings (2.30) and Sneaky Sound System will be worth seeing I think.
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Moving away from the topic of Rob for a moment, this is pretty striking:
The latest data from AdMob, the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace, shows that Apple now dominates the mobile web in the U.S. with a 48% market share. This growth, interestingly enough, does not just come from the iPhone, but the iPod touch also saw a meteoric rise in usage during the last month. Traffic from the iPod touch to AdMob's network in the U.S. increased 3.4 times from November to December.
Overall, requests from the iPod touch increased from 18 million in July 2008 to 292 million in December. While traffic from the iPod touch grew at a steady clip over the last few month, a good part of this growth came, not unsurprisingly, in the week after Christmas. After the iPhone (10%), the iPod touch (4.7% ) is now the second most popular mobile device on sites that run AdMob's advertising. Overall, iPhone requests grew 86% since November.
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Actually, no. While not the complete disaster predicted, she was still bloody annoying with moments of "not bad" tossed in occasionally.
No, I thought she was better than that -- you're weighed down with all that fanboy baggage!
And I was moved by her final episode.
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I would also like to point out that I once chanced upon myself being described as an "extreme Marxist" in the forums of Trade Me. Awesome.
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Call in an airstrike. Seems only fair
I feel I should not have LOL'd at that.
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I've been trying to visit it for ten years, but to no avail ....
Today would have been a good day to visit. It is simply gorgeous outside.
While I have not been arguing the merits of overthrowing capitalism with you, I have had a vigorous morning bike ride (up Chinaman's Hill, hurtling down Motions Road then off-road around Meola Reef), been monstered by geese with Leo at Western Springs Park, and even knocked out some work.
Now we are about to pop around the corner for a swim at the newly awesomised Pt Chev beach. I like it here today.
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And I'd rather have the licensing trusts who plow the profits back into local organizations such as Plunket, soccer clubs and Surf rescue or free home first aid kits for local residents than some vile multinational corp that promptly sucks the money out of the country.
Even if most of their profits come from pokies?
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Exchange between the currencies would be illegal and it is assumed that a black market would therefore kept small enough to be manageable.
I think that would guarantee the emergence of a black market, but it's an intriguing idea -- sort of carbon credits writ large.
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