Posts by Simon Grigg
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looking forward to them repainting the whitehouse. place'll look bad.
yeah, I was wondering if Clinton (George that is) will be invited to perform at the inauguration. I'm sure he can get the old band back together for just that one tune.
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I'm throwing it out there.
And having just returned from a US Expat election party where more than a few were throwing it at least in the air, if not out there, I too am very pleased to concede to you Giovanni (but with the added proviso that defeatism is a working stratery that most of NZ's sporting teams would do well to embrace before major clashes..it works)
I will, with a happy heart, track down a suitable token to go with the watch....
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how some countries were performing better as democratic states than we might think (who would have thought Indonesia?)
Well yes and no. I hold Ms. Jones in some esteem, she's one of the few sane foreign voices that both understands this region and nation, and holds some sway (and I'd rather trust her advice on Indonesian terror levels than the rather inane parroting of Australia's often half baked travel warnings that come from Wellington). But the democratic process continually teeters here, under attack and pressure from the massively wealthy (beyond anything found in NZ) power elites and the religious right.
The army has largely removed itself from politics but left a huge vacuum which the crazies are starting to fill.
When coupled with a very shaky understanding and implementation of the rule of law and a failure of the elected servants to grasp that they are there to serve the masses, not the reverse, I worry about this nation's future, and by extension SEA of which this is a huge, volatile, part.
The recent Anti-Porn Bill, hurriedly written, not by lawyers, but by Islamic pressure groups, and quite draconian, is probably the most volatile case in point with various provinces, Sulawesi, Bali, and Papua all talking secession, and others like Yogyakarta threatening civil disobedience, because of what is seen by many as an attempt to push Sharia law through by stealth. It was passed by a majority of the Legislature in hurry before a break so as to placate vocal Muslim groups before the coming election.
It's provisions for 'community groups' to suppress what they see as porn, which includes what women wear, conversation and much more, with talk of the shutting down of social websites, non-Muslim publishing houses, bookshops, cable TV, clubs, bars as well as what the rest of the world sees as porn is scary stuff and hugely, as you'd imagine, unpopular, with a mass who don't necessarily agree with this.
It has the potential, and not in the distant future, to pull this place apart.
It's evidence that Indonesia has not quite 'got' democracy yet.
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Would this suit your purposes? I am considering it for myself
Sadly Indonesian 'broadband', being what it is, may preclude an online alternative
But how I'd love to change. MYOB is such a dated dog...hell it doesn't even support mouse wheels.
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And shit, clicking post rather than preview....I worked out what you were saying in your inelegant way (which I can only aspire to......)
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You have, I'm afraid, rather lost me
Can I take that back....consider this a PA edit function.
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I got your thing the other day, but I really, really hope I'm going to get to keep it.
You have, I'm afraid, rather lost me
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In the Gallup graph the last day of polling coincides with the biggest Obama advantage of the whole campaign. Talk about peaking at the right time!
Yep...but I'm not gonna jinx this..McCain will win..McCain will win..McCain will win.
So, Giovanni since Obama may squeak through and you don't want a $5 Rolex, what can I tempt you with..a Bintang T-Shirt, how about a personalised copy of Indonesia's new We-can-out-Taliban-the-Taliban Pornography law which okays vigilantism?
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Now hold on Simon ... when did you come over from the dark side?
you mean OSX... a burglar dropped the Compaq as he was being chased by my dog and myself and cracked the motherboard so my wonderful wife bought me a Macbook Pro 17" in Hong Kong a month back..about US$2.2k there which is way less than here or anywhere else I think.
I was easily persuaded....although I still have Vista running for those programs that won't run under OSX, or have shitty upgrade options.
Like MYOB...who seem to think that a windows upgrade path is fine at $200 but a Mac one is $500...
And for blogging. Can anyone point me in the direction of a half decent Mac WYSIWYG blogging app that come close to Windows Livewriter.