Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Geldof of my cloud...
Oh ain't you glad that we live on an island,
me an' Janet Frame
and I don't like Mondays neither... :-)yrs
Cobol Byte-Byte
Character Support -
We are the new Number One!
Make NZ a prison island.
Only if we get those nifty menacing big white balloons for offshore security, though...
yrs
John Drake
No. 6 -
Reelin' in the 'ears...
I'm listening to ancient Steely Dan as I write
Lukey, don't lose that number... : )
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Bilbo Rows
The Naturists' Luncheonette -
One Step Beyond the bucket...
THIS is beyond the pail
sorry to tie up loose threads
but THIS is beyond the pale : )and that's intertwinement
yrs
P. Alice Aide
Stakeholder in
the Pedant Patrol -
Diss town...
...is comin' like a ghost town...
that's the tune the little "Big is good" Auckland TV ad should have used - and that's what it shows, all the wraiths of commerce past flitting through the strangely empty streets, and ending with the old guy letting himself back into the cemetery as the sun comes up... I rest my case ; - )Still might make an interesting premise for a TV series - anyone? anyone?
Working title : Goats Town
Jools before Swine
re: The Specials - Terry Hall does look like he's just there for the money, Fun Boy Free indeed...Watching the defectives...
Declan Patrick MacManus
- no you're a manus!i-less in Gaza
kinda Section 92A related - do ya think Scrbe is getting a flow of money from DAM's hit Not Many
...if any?yrs
Boss Well
amanuensis -
I just do eyes...
further to comments on this Auckland ad I made on another thread, and on re-viewing the ad, it is all very European provincial... almost Dean Spanley old romance territory, when it needed to be more Neuromancer or Bladerunner .
This is the 21st century isn't it?
what a sleepy little bucolic paean
Merchant and Ivory - ptui...nothing to see here then...
move onyrs
Seeth Ng Throng -
CHRISTCHURCH?
and with all due respect
I think you mean the
Montecristo Room
as Toto Restaurant brand it.
So I suspect it has more
to do with cigars than
Alexandre Dumas...
or wrapping mountains : )yrs
the Lone Ranger & Tonto
Pedant Patrol -
Auckland vs the Bicycle Thieves
the Rich Little city (or the city that impersonates a city that walks on water...)
What! NO cycle helmet! Biking on the pavement! Transporting uncovered foodstuffs! Then ending on what looks like cemetery gates... - promoting an OSH-free fantasy land, much like the vaseline-lensed one for Chch night-life, too, which left out the litter and pools of vomit and urine round the strip... getting up early in Chch doesn't visually reward as much as it does in Auckland obviously : )
In fact Chch has just announced that it has plans for a NEW heart of the city - the Lanes Project, so not the City Mall that they've spent a fortune on then or the Square that they've spent even more on over the years - I think the reason it doesn't have a heart is because it doesn't have a brain...
...are we in Oz yet?Parsing water...
Suez (one of World's oldest corporations) were not just involved in Argentina - Mexico tooand lest we forget Bechtel & Bolivia
or Bechtel in EcuadorOf course they're not interested in NZ's water, right?
Well, Bechtel still have "the one that got away" proudly listed on their website:
HYDRO PROJECT
NEW ZEALAND—Bechtel and McConnell Dowell Constructors Ltd. have signed a contract to build the $750 million Project Aqua hydroelectricity system for Meridian Energy, New Zealand’s largest electricity generator. The companies will work with Meridian on cost development until September 2004, followed by detailed design and construction if the project proves economically and environmentally viable. It would be the largest construction project in New Zealand in more than 10 years.admittedly hydro construction, not water management per se - but Public/Private partnerships and overseas out-sourcing are fast becoming the norm in NZ - witness Chch City Council - changing from a French company collecting the city's rubbish to the lowest bidding Australian company getting the contract - thta'll keep the money local - forward thinking stuff...
still the new city slogan resonates
Christchurch - Love your rubblsh!
and the streets are bin-laden!
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Prince Namor
holding my breath -
Well Rod Oram seems to disagree that there's a problem
But he did just say on RNZ that it was outrageous that S&P get to look at the budget 2 days ahead of everyone else -
I'm guessing Moodys et al were not afforded the same "courtesy"...yrs
Humphrey Dumpty
Pullet Surprise winner -
NZ a division of McGraw-Hill?
Do they own the country now?
follow the bouncing ball kids...
Capital IQ says:
"Our offering has become an essential part of the workflow for many financial professionals at the leading investment banks, investment managers, and private equity firms in North America. We see tremendous opportunities for additional growth around the world, particularly in Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and the greater Asia-Pacific region," said Randall Winn, Managing Director of Capital IQ.
and Capital IQ is a division of Standard & Poors
and S&P is a division of McGraw-Hill
publishers of Business Week and mega-providers of basic educational texts and Global Corporate information in many crucial areas ...
- And they get first look at OUR budget??and some were worried about the NZ Stock Exchange owning business mags... Hell let's ask Rupert Murdoch for advice as well...
yrs J. Jonah Jamieson
and tell Parker to get more
photos of Spider-man hanging
around the Beehive...