Posts by Sam F
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I see the good Mr Slack has made the jump from PAS into the pages of the Aucklander - he's featured in a story on cycle helmets in today's edition.
Doesn't seem to be online yet.
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Penny Bright in the news:
Board chairman Christopher Dempsey says the controversial character is being honoured for focusing attention on water privatisation and pushing for transparency in council contracts. "If you put aside her persistent techniques - the controversial heat that she generates - she has done very valuable services for us."
Councillor Cathy Casey has spent many occasions waiting with Ms Bright for police to arrest her after clashes at council meetings. With Cr Glenda Fryer, Dr Casey nominated Ms Bright for the award.
With added quasi-magnanimousness from Banks:
Mayor John Banks has had Penny bundled out of the council chambers several times but was not at all surprised to hear about the award.
"I think if the Eden Albert Community Board want to award Penny, then it's okay by me. You've got to admire her pluck, her tenacity, her strength of conviction," he says.
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Those must be the unfunniest lyrics in the history of song though.
Lost in translation? Although the death-metal delivery from one of the singers does make up for this somewhat.
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Interesting; I can't find the offending paragraph on the Manukau Libraries site anymore - have they nixed it since the blog post?
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Grade-A lunacy. With your money.
You may regret having used this title now, should Banks' Supercity Olympics proposal get any traction in the real world...
But yes, seems like a spectacularly stupid set of rules to provide for a website. And this:
do not modify the information or make it available to third parties through a networked computer environment
Does this mean I can't actually tell other people what the URL is for the Auckland Council website?
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1. Some of us (well, me at least) use IE at work and Firefox at home - so the numbers don't necessarily reflect the preference of the users - although they can't be far off.
Currently using IE 7 here, but it's always Firefox at home.
Haven't given Chrome a try yet...
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Can somebody remind me what befell Holmes after the cheekie darkie on air rant?
If I remember correctly Mitsubishi dropped its $1 million+ sponsorship of Holmes, one of the TV show's producers quit... and I believe that was it, since TVNZ said the comments were made outside its jurisdiction and TRN did nothing - Holmes apologising and claiming to be "tired" was apparently enough for them.
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C'mon man jesus isn't all bad.
I have it on good authority that he aided and abetted his fishing industry buddies in exceeding their quotas, and that's before we consider the obviously fiddled receipt for those loaves.
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I can hardly tolerate that age group 'seagulling'. The prospect of adults doing it is chilling.
I just naively ran a straight Google search for the term "seagulling". Wow.
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I notice the pale burghers of Howick managed to get the name of the new super-city ward they were part of changed from Te Irirangi to - you guessed it - Howick.
I realise the discussion's well and truly moved on from this (dear God, more than a week ago!), but couldn't resist linking this rather nice recent post from Denis Welch:
The name is that of a 19th-century English aristocrat, the
third Earl Grey, who before he succeeded to his father’s
title was known as Viscount Howick, that being the name
of the family’s stately home in Northumberland. Grey was
Colonial Secretary in the British government at the time
eastern Auckland was being occupied by white settlers.
He never came near New Zealand, let alone the part of it
that bears his name to this day.Tara Te Irirangi was the paramount chief of Ngai Tai, the
tangata whenua at the time the settlers arrived. According
to Brian Rudman in the New Zealand Herald he was a
‘friend to the newcomers, learning their language and
supporting the new settler government.’ Nice of him. He
got a street named after him, and Otara’s name derives
from him too. But the Local Government Commision’s
proposal was clearly a suburb too far for some. ‘The name
has come from nowhere,’ thundered the editor of the
H & P Times. ‘It doesn’t mean anything to people who
have lived here for a long time.’[...] Meanwhile, at the other end of the country, the Invercargill
City Council has roundly rejected the idea of calling a new
street Ti Kouka Way, as suggested by a council officer, and
opted for Kakariki Way instead. Not so egregious, you
might think, but Ti Kouka (the cabbage tree common in the
area of the street) missed out because, according to the
Southland Times, ‘councillors agreed it might be difficult to
pronounce.’ One said it sounded like ‘coconut.’ Another said
it would be a hard one to explain to a call centre in Delhi.That's the trouble with these pesky foreign languages, which
is what te reo still clearly is to many Pakeha: they're just
not English enough./linkderail