Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Rich Lock,
Goodbye Mr Chips...
I’ve never, in my entire life, used an Apple product. Ever.
Though it wouldn't surprise me if you have used a device, or program, that was the way it was in response to an Apple innovation, IIRC at least one of the Windows updates was very similar to the Mac desktop environment, and so on...
They raised the bar virtually every step of the way... -
cyber ribbin'...
William Gibson... wrote Neuromancer in 1983
...on a typewriter...
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Just heard that Steve Jobs has died...
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Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Rich Lock,
When the carefully crafted mask does slip, it's not a pleasant sight.
Parliament World - where nothing can possibly go worng...
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enter the SkyPad...
India launches Aakash tablet computer priced at $35 -
Hard News: The Politics of Absence, in reply to Sacha,
National were blindsided by the credit rating down grade
That's the claim..and all other Financial woes and mismanagement are still Labour's fault!
I think National act like petulant schoolkids
(and most schoolkids aren't even that bad or disingenuous) -
..and then there's this - search engine poisoning
- to contend with as well...
sigh, I might just go read a book. -
Hard News: The price is that they get to…, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Go ogle le go-go Lego o g...
Google can guess your home address, since that’s where your phone tends to be at night. I don’t mean that in theory some rogue Google employee could hack into your phone to find out where you sleep; I mean that Google, as a system, explicitly deduces where you live and openly logs it as ‘home address’ in its location service, to put beside the ‘work address’ where you spend the majority of your daytime hours.
...and if you have a home wireless network, I guess it has a picture of your house as well from its Google Earth street view cameras, that gathered all that information as they took the pictures - one does hope that Google Space isn't covering the approach of the Mothership and attack force as they now know everything about the planet and where everyone is...
or am I a paranoid android to fear the coming of the paradroids? -
Hard News: The Minister's Brain Has Exploded, in reply to Kracklite,
Turkish Bath Delight...
and the comparison of the honorable Clive Wynne-Candy with the irredeemably oafish and vulgar Gerry Brownlee is galling.
Apologies, having never seen the film, I was thinking of Kiwi, David Low's cartoon creation, described as: "pompous, irascible, jingoistic"
Low developed the character after overhearing two military men in a Turkish bath declare that cavalry officers should be entitled to wear their spurs inside tanks.
Blimp would issue proclamations from the Turkish bath, wrapped in his towel and brandishing some mundane weapon to emphasize his passion on some issue of current affairs. Unfortunately, his pronouncements were often confused and childlike. His phrasing often includes direct contradiction, as though the first part of a sentence of his did not know what it was leading to, with the conclusion being part of an emotional catchphrase.
Blimp was a satire on the reactionary opinions of the British establishment of the 1930s and 1940s, epitomized by Winston Churchill. Colonel Blimp has been called the representative of "all that Low disliked in British politics" – such as a perceived lack of enthusiasm for democracy.Such lines as "We must protect Liberty by taking away Liberty to take Liberty to take away Liberty to take Liberty - Dammit" seem a typical Brownleean Notion to me...
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genderizing goose sauce...?
If there is criticism or questions on John Key having an hour on Radio Live, what position does that put David Shearer's show, on Planet FM, in? - I guess it is community radio rather than the crass commerciality of Radio Live, but to be fair shouldn't that be questioned too...