Posts by George Darroch
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My lesson is now to keep things on a dedicated backup USB stick.
Evernote is pretty cool.
I still prefer Zotero, although being wedded to memory hungry Firefox is starting to become a downside. Ironically, I lost a year of biblio when upgrading Zotero to their 2.0 web-snyc version, which was promoted as a way to back up your data and use it across machines.
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Back up your thesis too. I haven't lost mine, but I lost my bibliography, which was a major blow.
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Wouldn't caves be cheaper? There's got to be a use for that tunnel boring machine once it's finished with Mt Albert.
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The pity is that talkback isn't an inherently bad medium. It just needs better moderators.
I'm told that in the late-1970s through early 1980s it was actually useful. Most politicians stopped taking it seriously as a representation of broad public opinion in the 1990s.
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Ngāwhā Prison anyone?
Northland geologist Roger Brand says four years ago he warned the department that the site would be unstable and it could take years for the peat sub-soils to drain and settle. Brand predicts more cracks will appear in the prison walls.
And they put it on top of a sensitive site for the local iwi, who protested for years to no avail.
Prisons must be built, you see. On that, Labour and National agree.
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I spent part of yesterday lying in a hospital bed listening to Danny Watson and a chorus of morons on Newstalk ZB work themselves into a frenzy
It's easy to dismiss talkback radio as the insane ravings of hyped morons. Which it is.
But what really, really, irks me about the New Zealand media is the number who've worked in talkback who now write columns or present television shows. There should some rule that talkback radio disqualifies you from having another job in media, ever. That might cut out a couple of good people, but it would save us from plenty of morons.
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At the Australian National University in Canberra, they're planning to put students into containers. In the Netherlands they already do.
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I can only echo what has been said.
With that, I ask a question: what advice would you give to the rest of us, who haven't had strokes?
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Should income tax be reduced by 10% and public spending increased as part of a prudent and responsible economic policy?
Correction: it was "spending maintained" in the referendum on the Labour Government last year.
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Yup, seems like the best option to me. It feels like a case where silence (including spoiled ballots) will be interpreted as apathay.
F@ck. I really wanted to spoil that ballot.