Posts by James Littlewood*
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DVP was a CD-Rom developer, and that's pretty much the style. Designers stopped using client-side image maps like that years ago.
Well, it was years ago.
The Second Coming could have happened and it would be just another day in X-ville.<quote>
Bliss.
<quote>sticking to your knitting (which presumably made the company worth buying in the first place
Made it valuable, but what about sustaining that value? Possibly, hard copy yellow searches didn't translate so well online. Watching Trade Me go nuts while your book becomes a paper weight's gotta hurt.
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I kinda liked X-ville. It was 3d, it was cartoony. Yeah, it was of the behemouth, which has always been an easy target. But visually, it was ahead of its time. A web site - a portal, no less - which dared to eschew the conventional banner cross the top, headlines down the middle, nav marks down the left side.
Yeah, yeah. Conventions, don't make me think, etc. etc. But it was more interesting than anything they - and most others - have done since.
And, in those heady dial up days, completely impossible to fully download in any acceptable time frame.
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New baby turns up mid Jan. Probly take some time off around then. Not lots, maybe 2 weeks spread over a month.
Been offered a gig at the end of feb, so out with the uke for a bit of a tune up. And this guy, Hawaian steel dude from England.
Somehow have to get a room painted between xmas & new year.
Have to get the chilled strawberry soup ready for xmas entree. With shaved almond mascarpone. See Quisine for recipe. Leave turkey & trifle to various in laws.
After a recent rofflenui at Honey Bar, this could be the summer of the mint julep.
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Also, Graham's post reminds me of another great word for 2008. From over the ditch:
"Sorry".
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Things may not have changed yet.
But here's Jeanette on how they're about to.
http://blog.greens.org.nz/2008/11/30/nz-red-faced-over-climate-change/
And for those who suspect bloggers are immune to talkback bullshit, check out the trolls the Greens have to endure.
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And from the Peters file:
"No."
Surely, this will enter the language in its rightful place, alongside
"Yeah, right."
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Something from the under 12s:
"Chillax."
In equal measures inevitible, predictable and charming.
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Collapse of Global Capitalism (CGC), but that is a bit of a mouthful.
What is the Russian word meaning the opposite of Glasnost? Or the opposite of Perestroika?
(apologies to those who know the preferred spelling of those words).
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Rik, so you'd agree then that both main parties are front runners in the Robin Hood lookalike show, albeit with different means. Bonza.
On the topic of tax, why did the Maoris' idea of reducing GST not get more traction, and why was it not adopted also by the Greens?
Seems like totally bloody standard entry level workers' politics (not that either party need be solely concerend with workers, of course).
Oh yeah. I remember the day in the late 80s Dougless announced it. I was slurping a kona coffee and a croissant on the Kestrel ... thems wuz tha days ... ugh ... backflow ... repeating on me ... day of the dead ...
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The Greens always do worse in election polls than media polls.
Lots of reasons. But mainly:
One: Labour supporters are (misguidedly) afraid that Labour will miss out if they vote for Green.
Two: The Greens fail to realise their vote from non-Labour supporters.