Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Yamis,
You teachers are always bastards like that!
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Jackie Clark,
mmmm, Dianne Swann and Debbie Harwood - two of NZ's pop goddesses!
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to recordari,
Oh fuck! #earworm
I will get you for that.
ETA Mrs Lemming says my revenge will be nothing compared to hers. I believe her.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Sacha,
Latest skype theoretically does multi-person video (but not on my Mac). There are other apps coming along. But audio and screen-sharing/web-casting/collaboration is actually more cost-effective and useful than multi-person video in my experience.
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to recordari,
I can almost see a 2am PAS chorus of “I wanna know what love is”. Almost
Followed by copious amounts of Bon Jovi! #amsecretlypleasedIcantrecallasinglesongtitle
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Craig Young,
Everyone be sure to duck to avoid the lowflying fundies on May 21!
I received an invitation on Facebook to go looting their houses!
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to SteveH,
why haven’t we been shown the economic impacts from those countries?
Those would be the places doing so much better than we are with information-based industries? Like Silicon Valley, for example? I can remember chatting on Usenet with someone in SF 15 years ago about him having a T-1 line coming into his apartment, while I was feeling whizzbang with my new 28K modem.
I don't think you have any idea of just how far behind the game we are.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to SteveH,
All of my video-conferencing is domestic, bar a monthly to London. Enhanced capacity for telecommuting would be a huge boon to reducing emissions, as well as reducing personal costs for travel and business overheads of deskspace etc.
We don't need HD video-conferencing - Skype or gTalk is really sufficient, though not wonderful. There's too much hype about HD.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Sacha,
For the Greens, Gareth Hughes seems to understand the matter but suffers from the party’s overall comms/engagement weakness (which media attitudes play a large part in, admittedly).
Gareth definitely gets it. Even Sue Kedgely gets it. I think the Greens are getting better at comms, but there's still a few who knit their own lunch and move verrrrrrrry sloooooowly to do anything, and then only by consensus. Still, they're generally very polite which makes a change from the run of the mill pollie.
For Labour, Shane Jones has inherited the portfolio relatively recently but the main problem seems that the obvious political value of this issue seems to sail right over the heads of their woeful strategists and comms folk.
+1 on Jones, also Lees-Galloway and Kris Faafoi who are engaging on the Coast expressway, though have yet to make a splash. Darren Hughes definitely got it, but his fall from grace has left them running to get up to speed.
The first problem in focussing on the RoN$ is that there's fuck all to focus on! While the projects are running ahead, there's actually no background because they were created whole in the demented mind of No Choice Joyce (actually they were fed to him by the Council for Infrastructure Development, I believe).
The second problem is timing and - you guessed it - Christchurch. Rod Oram started in on them last year, looking at the cost benefit ratios (which are complete crap) and had a to and fro with Joyce in the SST, but then the September quake happened and the ball never got picked up in the main media.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Joshua Arbury,
Or the govt’s next great transport priority: a motorway from Cambridge to Taupo. No I am not joking.
I know you're not. I only wish you were.