Posts by Sam F
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Also I'd like to drag'n drop away sections that I'd never read, like sports and racing and normally business, and swoosh them away with a satisfying flick.
Which company was it that had that TV ad campaign 10 or so years ago, with the customised newspaper that showed up to suit everyone's desires? No sports section, or six of them, whatever you wish for...
ETA: George and others already thought of this - I really should have read all the way down - but at least glad that someone else remembered that one.
Let's bring back old fashioned patronage! We could all be the new Medicis or whatever the investigative equivalent is.
Scoop's Micropatron system is as close as we have right now, I suppose? And it's even got the early modern/renaissance era imagery going on in the ads, too...
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The path continues on for another km or so to a dead end on the far side of the railway from Pak'n'save, trap for young players.
Ah yes, did that not so very long ago...
Watch out bombing the cycleway by the tech too, I was nearly collected by some loon blundering out of the bushes.
I find the main one to be careful with is the cycleway going down from Upper Queen Street to Newton Road, beside Ian McKinnon Drive... a wonderful slope and so easy to get carried away, but if you meet a pedestrian along the way down you're going to regret it...
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It's pretty straightforward -- come off the SH16 path at Carrington Rd, then ride up Carrington then Richardson to the top of the path at the corner with Maioro Street.
Excellent - or I suppose you could build the Oakley Creek track in, and then go up through/past Unitec to join Richardson?
The thing to bear in mind is the steep climb back up to Hillsborough Rd (I think I said Queenstown Rd upthread) on return. It's do-able, but I tend to swear loudly on the way up, which can unnerve the locals.
I remember this well (the hill, not your language) from working in Mangere Bridge in '08 - I usually went up through Onehunga town centre instead, but that brought its own problems...
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Sounds like a plan.
I'm going to have to do a combined NW/SH20 cycle run sometime in the future I think...
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There's hope yet - WorkChoices was John Howard's Waterloo.
Garden centre anecdata from the Dim-Post, as well as this:
Personally this is just going to make me more risk averse about changing jobs: if I move to a new employer and they suddenly run into budget problems a couple of months after hiring me then I could be summarily dismissed with no warning and no redundancy. Not a chance I’m willing to take while I have a mortgage to pay.
Sure, this law might make employers more likely to take risks when hiring – but employers already have the option of hiring new employees on three month contracts before making them permanent. So the benefits are likely to be negligible – medium and large companies can now avoid this minor bureaucratic overhead – with the drawback being decreased labour market mobility.
So how do those costs and benefits balance out? New Zealand is already one of the easiest countries in the world for companies to do business – that just got slightly easier. Great. Decreasing labour mobility will reduce productivity and wage growth. National based its entire election campaign on improving these two metrics and this policy is another indication that they have absolutely no idea of how to do that – so why not toss some red meat to their members and donors at their conference this weekend instead?
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My regular run until about two weeks ago was: along Western Springs Road and onto New North Road, then up over the hill through Kingsland and straight on New North Road all the way to Exmouth Street, near the top of the hill where New North and Mt Eden Roads meet. Blast down Exmouth and up the other side (cuts out the hairiest part of New North and Upper Symonds Streets), then carefully turn left onto Newton Road and right at the traffic lights, and along onto Upper Queen Street and into town.
The Exmouth shortcut saved a good 5-10 minutes off the run in - say 20 minutes all up - but I've since abandoned this route due to traffic hassles. I never had a crash but I found myself increasingly tallying up all the near misses in my mind.
Now it's a straight blat along the Northwestern Cycleway right from School Road in Kingsland up to Upper Queen Street. So far it's just as fast as the quickest road run I've done. (Add say 5-10 minutes for the run home after a long day at work...) I haven't encountered glass there either.
The only real hassle with the NW cycleway is the increasing number of dog-walkers through Kingsland and Morningside, who occupy the width of the track and whose control of their dogs is pretty variable.
Get a bell. A nice loud ding-a-ling bell. Isabel necessary on a bicycle? Yes.
Got one - gives a great single DING per flick of the hammer, which seems to carry surprisingly well through iPod earbuds and car windows. Knowing when to sound it gently rather than at full force is a bit of an art though; it seems to irritate some people just as much as a silent near miss would have.
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Bravo Ian Dalziel - a superb poem, and probably the best one ever inspired by a (modified) Insane Clown Posse lyric...
In PFC news: John Banks discovers the astonishing idea of having a RWC party area within an existing party area.
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More on mummies and related museum creepiness: Face of 2500-year-old woman revealed
Clearly the dig site was smack in the middle of the Uncanny Valley.
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ETA: Double post. Anyone found the link yet?