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Well done Cameron
By chance, I caught a few minutes of The Nutter’s Club on Radio LIVE last night. Normally hosted by comedian Mike King, blogger Cameron Slater took the chair. The interaction I heard — a discussion with a talkback caller worried about the side effects of her prescription drugs, and concerned that her doctors weren’t listening […]
Yes we can! (Had to happen, I guess.)
Spotted this at the top of Howick today. Bwahahaha… Pfft! -P
Happy in Apple’s ecosystem, thanks.
I’ve had two experiences in the last week which have confirmed my satisfaction with life in Apple’s ecosystem. The first was the morning after I got back from my visit to Wellington last week. I woke up and went to switch my iPhone on and found the power/sleep button on top VERY stiff. This phone’s […]
Bill Clinton’s still got the shine. Unlike some.
I’m too young to have observed at first hand the way the US media was [supposedly] swept up in a love affair with John F Kennedy. Sure, I’ve read contemporary accounts like LIFE magazine fawning over the Kennedys etc, and looked at the phenomenon historically, but that ain’t the same. As an observer I was […]
Rights, rights, everywhere, but not a drop to drink
From this morning’s NZ Herald editorial about the National-led government’s political machinations around heading off court action by Maori against its flagship asset sales policy*: ‘Too clever’ risk in Govt shares plan Crown lawyers have acknowledged that pre-colonial iwi and hapu had customary control of rivers and streams in their area and those rights were […]
Dragon imagery and hanging on to past Mac OS functionality
Apparently this cool design is like a mascot/logo for LLVM compiler software … The LLVM logo is a stylized wyvern (a kind of dragon). Dragons have connotations of power, speed and intelligence, and can also be sleek, elegant, and modular (err, maybe not). In addition, there is a series of influential compiler books going back […]
Pink! I knew this would happen while Rob Fyfe was Air NZ’s CEO and an All Blacks sponsor. I just knew it.
Look at this: So what part of ‘ALL BLACKS’ wasn’t clear? Read the background in Daniel Richardson’s article at the NZ Herald and you’ll see Israel Dagg’s wounds are self-inflicted. I still blame Rob Fyfe. – P
The D-word. Name-calling in place of intellectual debate
A nice line from Stanley Fish’s New York Times review of right wing polemicist Dinesh D’Souza’s ninety minute anti-Obama campaign ad masquerading as a feature film … … While a viewer could certainly disagree with D’Souza’s analysis of the genesis and emergence of Obama’s views, it is nevertheless an analysis to which one could respond […]
Satiric comment on Apple patents
Of course it’s exaggerated but … a wee bit funny …
Acknowledgements page as self-promotion and commercial message. Ha!
For my author friends … a description of the ‘undercurrent of faux-modest self-promotion [which] runs like a viral strain throughout every acknowledgments page’. (We refer to them as ‘Ackowledgements’ — an inside joke after an unfortunate and undetected-until-too-late typographical error.) A lively, little-bit-snarky, enjoyable read: Against Acknowledgments by Sam Sacks at the New Yorker magazine. […]
Old school
I’m visiting my mum. Spring might be around the corner but judging by the state of lawns (and Midland Park) there’s been a bit of rain here in Wellington … Nice to see The Dominion Post delivery team knows how to deal with it. To be fair: That’s just dew on the newspaper delivery bag […]
