Posts by Peter Darlington
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But I'm such a dude...
Regarding this whole dude thing, I hope you're channelling The Big Lebowski or Bill & Ted rather than Ashton Kucher and his missing car.
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Yep, the Irish have done it for a long time. Always thought it showed class.
I hate it, it's obvious that our guys can't kick in total silence, they need a bit of verbal abuse to focus the mind.
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The SATA connection is a much better bet for external storage, but as you say it'll be highly dependant on them finding a strong DRM system. Which will, of course, be thoroughly cracked within weeks of being released.
Yes, I figured as much, I'd be happy enough if they offered a box upgrade to a 250-320Gb unit at some point, especially as more HD content comes onstream.
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On a couple of occasions, we're recorded two channels while we watched a third on the MySky HDi, which has three tuners now active. But that's just silly.
Yeh, the MySky HDi has become ridiculously essential at our place in such a short space of time. Before it arrived I read a whole load of frightening fault stories on Geekzone so was expecting the worst but it's gone like a dream for the last 2 months. I think we've had to reboot twice. I really like it as I'm not interested in saving and keeping content, just watch and delete.
My only (minor) beef is that the 120Gb drive is a bit small. If you're a sports nut like half of our house you can fill up the disk PDQ. We had the League, rugby and Liverpool game copied over Saturday night and those 3 items did around 20% of the HDD just like that. The unit has SATA and USB connectors in the front latch but I don't think these have been enabled in the current OS version? I hope they get around to it though as it should be a breeze to increase the storage by 2-3x the standard and not run out of room.
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I support Canterbury and Chelsea (Sorry Richard). I acknowledge that I am anathema to most sports fans.
Nah, that just makes you a glory hunter :-) Oh wait, you were born in Sloane Square, that's ok then, they're your local team.
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Weird, Gravatar seems to be picking up my image from somewhere, automatically. I presume it's either Last.fm or Facebook?
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Barnes is particularly precise though in knock-ons and (ironically now) forward passes. Perhaps he trained up after World Cup.
He still seems on occasion to get carried away in the heat of the moment. Before Borich was sent off he seemed to be getting excited and it was probably only a matter of time until it happened. He makes some good decisions but the pickiness still doesn't sit completely well.
Also, the fact that he's so pedantic makes it doubly strange that in the RWC 1/4 final he couldn't come up with a single damn infringement against the French in almost 50 minutes of being camped on their own line defending wave after wave of All Black attack. I bet he never repeats that stat for the rest of his reffing career.
I'll get over it one day...
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Re: Athletes of the Week.
Can I put in a plug for Hull City in the EPL? They were expected to be crash test dummies for the glamour clubs but they're refusing to roll over and are kicking some big boy arse. They didn't beat the Manscum this weekend but they gave them a decent run for their money and at this rate we might even see the odd Hull City jersey appearing on the streets of NZ to offset all the Manc and Chelsea ones that the glory boys wear.
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Hadyn, can I ask what it is/was about Herr Schumacher that excites you more than Hamilton?
He was the greatest driver of all time (in my opinion) and cool clinical - to the point of robotism - attitude. My favourite moment was in his final year when he had just beaten Alonso and was (maybe) a point or two behind him in the overall standings. At the press conference Schumacher said with the tiniest of smiles: "Looks like it will be an interesting season". It was like cheering for the bad guy who always wins.
Schumi was a great driver but he initiated the era of the dull. I preferred the Prost-Senna rivalry myself with Prost refusing to roll over to the new kid on the block.
But the G.O.A.T for me has got to be Villeneuve. He didn't win much but he always drove Ferrari and he went out big style in the greatest of all seasons, the crazy arsed 1982 ground-effect season where the cars were the world's fastest dodgem bombs. F1 has never been faster, crazier and more dangerous and it's still probably the closest sport has come to Cronenberg's 'Videodrome". There had to be death and it had to be crazy explosive death. Compulsive viewing.
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PS: Some applause, please for the New Zealand U17 women's football team, who have participated in two wonderfully watchable matches in the past week. They lost both, ending any hope of advancing in the tournament,...
There was more sweet midfield work by that U17 side in their two games than you'll see in half a dozen Phoenix matches. This created a load of chances for them and it was just a shame they didn't have more fire power up front to put a few away. Even one decent goal scorer and they'd be heading reasonably confidently into the quarter finals.