Posts by Deborah
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Russell Brown,
The odd thing is, if the vote on the 60/40 rule on Saturday was really a proxy vote on the leadership, then David Cunliffe won it.
Am I right in guessing it actually wasn’t?
It would be very odd to think that it was only about the leadership, and equally odd to think that it was only about establishing a voting rule.
I think everyone would like to see it sorted out. Constructively.
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The odd thing is, if the vote on the 60/40 rule on Saturday was really a proxy vote on the leadership, then David Cunliffe won it.
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I was there over the weekend, and what I saw was the party reasserting itself in the relationship between party and caucus.
ETA: Highpoint of the weekend for me? Meeting the excellent Mr Judd. (Also lots of other things, but it really was great to meet and talk to Stephen.)
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Danielle,
OG Nov 2006 too. Not quite in the first five commenters, but in the first 10 commenters.
Many thanks, Russell. Just... thank you. And I would be very happy to run with some sort of micro-payments / subscription system.
Also, Dr Tibby, I haven't forgotten that you referred to me once as your oldest commenter. Pre-System days... so it was a long time ago.
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Just popping in briefly to say, without having read any of the previous comments, that after driving to and from Wellington today, and being sans internet, when I got home and quickly scrolled through the list of posts on my RSS reader, the only one I clicked on to read straight away was this one, because what you have to say, Emma, is always interesting and integrity-ful.
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Leading both tv news shows, and TV1 saying something like, "It's easy, once you know how."
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to David Hood,
Thanks, David. That makes sense. I think Heather Gaye's point about jargon is a good one, and something for people front footing this story to be very, very aware of when they are trying to explain what has happened, and how easy it was.
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Oh go away, James George. Your comparison of Paula Bennett to the Nazis is offensive. I hold no brief for Bennett, but she certainly doesn't deserve that. Take your odious comparisons somewhere else.
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sacha,
Alternatively, my lack of understanding of computers, despite being pretty well educated, points to a need for IT savvy people to be much more aware of the jargon they use, and the assumptions they make about how much other people do, or don't, know about computers.
What does "mapping a computer" mean?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sacha,
Please trust me when I say I don’t know how to do this. Also, I use Macs, so Windows?
Without being too outrageous about this, I’m pretty well educated, and reasonably able to pick things up if I care to pay attention to them. I just don’t care about computer systems and file systems and things like that. Even the word, “dialogue” , as in “Open File dialogue” loses me, because it’s not language I use. Nor is it anything in which I’m at all interested. I just want the damn computer to work, and I expect our IT people to sort stuff for me if it doesn’t.
Even if I used whatever this “Open File dialogue” thing is, if I got a screen looking anything like the pictures that Keith has loaded in his column, I would go, “WTF is that?” and hit the button to go back a page. Because it is Greek (geek?) to me.
So, yes, anyone with more interest in the inner workings of computers and files (and really, what exactly is a “file server”? – I genuinely don’t know, but also, I’m not sure that I actually need to know in order to be able to use my computer)…. anyway, anyone with more interest in the inner workings of computers would undoubtedly be able to read those screenshots in a way that I can’t, and chances are that there are a lot of people who are more interested than me in computers, so there were a lot of people who could go and take a wander through MSD’s files. But I’m not one of them.
Really, please do me the courtesy of taking my word for it when I say that I really don’t understand the inner workings of computers. Nor do I wish to.