Posts by Simon Grigg
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Oh, I'm just sick of 'new' bands where I can guess what CDs they've been listening to over the last six months.
I agree, at least with the Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who it was what imported R&B 45s they'd been listening to in the last six months :)
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you're begging to be compared to the pantheon of jazz and pop vocalists
Seriously, you think Julie Andrews is to be compared with John Coltrane because they both turned out a take of My Favourite Things?..strange logic.
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The real problem with "popera" is that it's not good pop and it's not good opera.
But its not trying to be. It's a genre in its own right and shouldn't judged against either, which I think is Graham's point. I don't like it and it ain't me but Haley is bloody good at it.
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The Kiri vs Hayley nonsense was a beat up by the Herald
Be that as it may, it was covered by the Australian and Asian media ( both ABC's cable news here in Asia, and the Singaporean NewsAsia channel ran it in on their widely watched news hours), and the UK amongst many others others. I was aware of it without needing to venture to the Herald (oh, and I agree with Graham , the ghost of Muldoon's infamous 'culture' comments looms large...what a pompous old windbag).
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yep, available, but paid for, ie not free
yes but see those links..some 300 wi-fi free spots in Paris alone. Had dinner with a German friend of mine last night who said that free Wi-fi is common in much of Germany too, you just need to know where to go. A quick google confirms that such is the case.
And you can't even pay for it in many places in NZ.
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well I blew that didn't I..someone fix pleassse ;)
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singapore was pay
its been free in Singapore for years in pretty much every major mall and Changi, I've logged on many times there. There is a free 512 service throughout the whole island as there is in KL. Most coffee shops sell you a voucher for an hour or two in SG. I suspect that's the way it is in Europe, or at least that's what I've been led to believe.
Then there are things like this and this. I suspect you just need to know where to go.
Waves with free 24 wi-fi and not bad coffee was jam packed even at 11pm Sunday nights
it's pretty much the same here. Even in Semerang in Central Java, where I spent a few hours last week, the airport had free wi-fi.
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the worlds not quite that good, you're talking asia for free,
No, I'm also talking the US and the UK in my experience, and much of Europe from third party knowledge. Asia in particular as you say..free wi-fi is everywhere simply because businesses realise that selling that extra cup of coffee makes it worthwhile
And I understand why it doesn't happen in NZ, but isn't that the issue.
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Having spent the last 6months in Vancouver, the biggest thing I am missing is walking into more or less any half decent cafe and you could sit down to free wi-fi.
or mall or airport or park, just about anywhere in the world for that matter...its a part of the World Wide Whatever which has passed NZ by.
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so you really weren't bent over a barrel as far as options go then.
no, but at the time PolyGram were on a buying spree. They'd bought Island, Go-Beat, Motown, A&M (which they bought for 500million and then simply closed it down..it was about the catalogue) and hundreds of smaller labels around the world. Philips was building up the asset base for a sale, which they did in 1998.