Posts by Juha Saarinen
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It's different nowadays. Best you can hope for is those Hilton and Richie hoses up your backside.
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Not sure, but Lady P would never have done this. She'd have got Parker to do it for her.
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No, not the Thunderbirds... that would've been legendary.
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This reminds me of working the nightshift years ago with a friend at a well, international rescue service in Europe. No, really. I'm not making it up.
Anyway, the various legations in Europe used at the time, and perhaps still do, telex to communicate in an official fashion.
Roundabout 3am, my red-eyed mate decides it is time to practice telexing, because they're pretty weird dinosaurs from the pre-internet era.
He sits down in front of the terminal and types:
CHING CHONG I HAVE A LONG DONG
and looks up in the manual how to send it, thinking the machine was in practice session mode.
It wasn't. In the morning an outraged embassy official calls up the shift manager and demands an explanation for the telex sent during the night. Embarrassed meetings ensue, apologies are forwarded and discipline is meted out, but my friend's employment survives the crisis luckily.
Bugger, I've gone off topic now.
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"I've got a CoC the size of a croc."
Do I get a badge for that? Hey Tim!
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Yeah, the shoplifting narcs in Borders are real bastards.
But anyway, what if Kathy Sierra overreacted and it wasn't quite as bad as it seemed? Or... what if it was a great publicity stunt?
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I like budgies better.
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There's an impressive stream, nay, tidal wave of volunteer spirit coming out of this discussion. Is there a pliant and thick, errm, cooperative MP who could help push this through at an official level?
3410: we are blutters according to Deb Coddington. Blog Nutters, with only ourselves for an audience. I'd wear that badge with great pride actually, unlike Tim O'Reilly's silly and embarrassing sheriff one.
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To solve this quandary, which I can sense rests heavy on many a fine mind here at PA, I propose the compulsory registration of bloggers within an industry organisation to foster greater professionalism and responsibility.
It would be paid for by annual fees levied on New Zealand bloggers and run by a board with appointees from various stakeholder organisations, who would elect a steering committee tasked with overseeing the ethics and general direction of New Zealand blogging.
Despite being exceedingly busy. I am more than happy to do my bit for blogging and throw my hat into the ring to chair such an organisation, in return for a modest attendance fee and business class travel to suitable meeting venues overseas.
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Some showers are too, but of what we don't know, we must not speak. There are some limits of language for which we must be grateful.