Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to
If the generality of "reader interaction" in NZ newspapers is anything to go by, I'm not sure we really need another venue for ignorance, racism, bigotry and ignorant racist bigotry.
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to
the awesomeness of seeing so many important world leaders
A bit like going to the White House / Downing Street and peering through the railings. I wonder, when political journalists were small children, their favourite treat was to sit in the car on Tinakori Rd and wait for the PM to come out of Premier House?
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to
Blazing Saddles: The cowboys sit around a fire, flatulently.
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Why is it the NZ media can spare an airfare to cover a John Key media opportunity overseas, but not for actual foreign news stories?
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Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to
Corner of Ghuznee and Taranaki, where they have films and a cafe and stuff..
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I'm sure you've heard this before, but:
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to
The correct capitalization of a rank depends on the context, as per the examples above.
In this article, the usage can be seen - ranks are in uppercase when used as titles, lowercase when used as nouns. "a part-time American major " vs "Col Collins"
The same in this Economist article.
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Hard News: Reviews: #NZGT and the Herald, in reply to
I like the way the original concept of the web didn't have pages specifying fonts.
The markup (like h1, p) was interpreted by the user's browser according to their choice of font. If you wanted to see everything in sans-serif, you could. It was a feature.
(But not one that was attractive to web designers, who want to be able to clearly express their skills to the core audience of other web designers).
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Capture: Wellington? Well, I Would., in reply to
That alley (frame 2) got gated off and painted over in grey in order to create a more suburbanite-friendly city for some rugby competition last year. Sad really.