Posts by Steve Barnes
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Most of today's news offerings wouldn't be worth keeping, surely?
They would be so easy to recreate.
Get a reporter to stand in front of a building, vaguely related to the story, and paraphrase a press statement.
And back to you, Damian.
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Trying not to use the voice of Anthony Hopkins.
Have they put the plug back in your skull yet?
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Good luck Emmms and a swift recovery.
Love and Peas,
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Those anti-poo bottles have come up three times in conversations over the last couple of weeks and now this. Spooky.
I remember that Dylan Tate segment like it were yesterday. Thank you Damian, for making me feel old, you young upstart. -
And meanwhile. On Craig's beloved North Shore the council's lack of commitment allows another Gang to harass an old lady and deprive her of her garden.
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Damn you Dalziel, I was about to post that myself. You know, elephants, rooms, cash in . Damn it, you Trunked me.
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But the clincher has to be that it can't be a service pack because Mac OS doesn't have "service packs" ...
Well, not free ones anyway.
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(say if you're asking for opinion of a certain service station on a scale of one to ten, with one meaning bad and ten meaning excellent - you know the drill) they start answering in all ones or tens.
I find answering 5 for all the questions to be a splendid waste of everybody's time.
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Voicemail is the biggest pain in the arse ever. I'm almost at the point of changing my voicemail message to say that I don't use voicemail, so please don't leave a message.
I'd rather get a text or an email or a tweet or a Facebook message. Anything but voicemail.
I'm with Jackie on this, I too canned my voicemail as have most of the people I call. That maybe because they got sick of me complaining that it cost me 45c to find out they weren't answering their phone, I could blame caller ID for that I suppose.
Then there's the land-line, it's free for local calls, that would be fine apart from the fact that every time I call someone up the phone's engaged cos they're taking to some marketing survey person for hours on end.
I mean, if you go to all the bother of calling a cellphone it must be at least a little bit time sensitive? otherwise eMail's fine and costs nothing.
Call me cheap then.
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Well done Russell, Elephants and Snow Leopards in one post.
The events do have something in common. The Zoo attracted Elephant fans from all of Auckland and beyond by eliminating an Elephant. Whilst Apple attracted Leopard fans from... well, all Macland at least, by eliminating old and infirm code.
How I will miss that buggy code, sigh.
<runs and ducks for cover>
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I really don't understand those occasions where people show up with the whole family in tow because something happened. They won't see anything, they won't be able to help, why do they go?.
There is a reason people go to a funeral of a friend or relative, to "show your last respects" I can even understand people turning up at the funeral of a respected public figure. I went to David Lange's memorial service but he was an orator, a man of ideas and a personal friend of many people that I knew, I could share with friends, memories and sadness at his passing.
But an Elephant??? that is so American, they seem to turn up in droves for something as common as a shooting.