Author Archive
My favourite right wing vixens branch out
My two favourite right wing vixens Louise Mensch and Cathy Odgers (Cactus Kate) have, for the moment, moved on from right wing politics and launched into the highly competitive, challenging arena of skincare and make-up product reviews and beauty tips. (No kidding.) These two women certainly don’t need to soften their image as far as […]
See? This why I just don’t trust Google
Yeah, like a lot of people I use the Google Reader API to sync my RSS — but only because they monstered everyone else out of the “market” * and many of the standalone RSS reader apps (especially iOS based readers, but also Vienna and NetNewsWire) switched to use Google Reader to sync feeds, subscriptions […]
‘Sometimes the inner evil is so great that I have to shout loudly’
From 12 Questions: Bruce Sheppard by Sarah Stuart in the NZ Herald today: 6. Who taught you cynicism? Better question would be what, and that is simple – time and experience. Not much is what it seems, and the world has been spun to hopelessly complex levels for what appear to be very limited useful […]
Howick Deputy Chair Adele White speaks up: Tells Chairman Michael Williams his failure to properly address his recent drink-driving conviction and his manipulative bullying is damaging the Howick Local Board’s reputation
Deputy chair of the Howick Local Board Adele White addressed the disgraced chairman Michael Williams at the Board meeting last night [11 March]. Ms White, famously in these parts, stared down an attempt by the chairman to remove her as Deputy on flimsy grounds see: Bunfight at Howick Local Board. With her permission, these are […]
Contrasts
Top: Ruapehu (Mt Doom) on Friday on my way down country. Bottom: Sunday on my way back. What a contrast. – P Pix: Peter Aranyi. http://campl.us/ofW8
No confidence vote in chairman Michael Williams PASSED but he remains in place.
I attended tonight’s meeting of the Howick Local Board and watched them pass this: (a) That the Howick Local Board expresses no confidence in the chairmanship of Michael Williams as a result of his criminal conviction on 22nd February 2013. But fail to pass this: (b) That Michael Williams be requested to resign from the […]
Australia’s mining boom: Stealing Aboriginal lands from beneath their feet. Yet again. (BBC)
I listened to this last night, then again today. It’s worth your time. BBC From Our Own Correspondent – March 2013 (MP3 file here) Australia’s mining boom and Aboriginal lands Duration: 10 minutes | First broadcast: Thursday 07 March 2013 | BBC website Pascale Harter introduces a special edition of From Our Own Correspondent dedicated […]
Why has @TheNBR been so #slippery about their apology to Phil Kitchin and @DomPost?
I wouldn’t normally highlight a retraction and apology from a newspaper as I did yesterday (see: By an amazing coincidence) regarding The National Business Review‘s by-all-appearances-brokered-to-head-off-legal-action retraction and apology to Phil Kitchin and The Dominion Post. (There but for the grace of god, etc …) But it seems to me as a reader, not a […]
By an amazing coincidence
On the same day The National Business Review printed a retraction & apology: … the Waikato Times web team also made a startling confession:
A wonderful NZ short film ‘The Six Dollar Fifty Man’
I hadn’t seen this … The Six Dollar Fifty Man from NZ Shorts on Vimeo.
An excellent primer on why the Treaty of Waitangi applies to ‘modern stuff’ like the radio spectrum
Broadcaster and Te Reo lobbyist/activist/legend Piripi Walker lays out the case: Why Maori seek share of 4G spectrum (stuff.co.nz via Bryce Edwards NZPD) A highlight for me, early in his argument: We should not be surprised in the digital age that its protections, in respect of the assumed royal prerogative (the right of kings, queens […]
I haz Vodafone LTE in Auckland
I rang Vodafone yesterday and agreed to the extra $10 a month to enable 4G LTE on my iPhone 5. I could see from their coverage map that my home in Howick isn’t “in the zone”, and my Epsom office is on the margin (as it turns out, no dice there either). So I’ve yet […]
Gower on ‘Teflon John’ Key
Quite a good column — readable, at least — from 3News’ Patrick Gower on the narrative that he’s been promoting lately: that NZ Prime Minister ‘Teflon John’ Key has regained his ‘vice-like grip on the centre voter’. It’s not the first time, of course, the ‘Teflon’ label has been used referring to Mr Key. But […]
There’s a joke in this … somewhere
Hello new thing. This (below) is apparently a tractor slander shaft. Oh, boy. There’s got to be a joke in there … And then there’s the ASB Bank’s use of the wonderful Brian Blessed (immortal in Blackadder as Richard IV) in their ‘be proud/celebrate success’ advertising campaign. I don’t rilly get the joke (yet). Below […]
Calling out haters like Cameron Slater
Recently, in a post Cameron Slater is social media “beef lasagne” I referred to the tactics of Pakuranga’s political attack blogger: Cameron’s schtick is fizzing up nonsense for the purposes of Shock! Horror! spittle-flecked and dishonest attacks on people with whom he disagrees online. His purpose is to ‘hurt’ them. If by his ravings and […]
