Posts by David Hood
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Here is October's List, which I extracted from the website thanks to regular URLs. I'm not on Facebook, so can't easily look up peoples demographic info. This list has them seperately for each appearance so accounts for frequency. There was a little copy/pasting so there might be a manual error, but the total seems accurate:
Anna Chin
Anna Chinn
Barry Corbett
Bomber Bradbury
Brian Edwards
Brian Edwards
Chris Trotter
Chris Wikaira
David Farrar
David Slack
Duncan Webb
Finlay MacDonald
Finlay MacDonald
Garry Moore
Garry Moore
Gary McCormick
Irene Gardiner
Jeremy Elwood
Jock Anderson
Joe Bennett
John Bishop
John Bishop
John Dunne
Jonathan Krebs
Kevin Milne
Mark Inglis
Matt Nippert
Michele A'Court
Michelle Boag
Michelle Boag
Mike Williams
Neil Miller
Neil Miller
Nevil Gibson
Penny Ashton
Raybon Kan
Rosemary McLeod
Scott Yorke
Simon Pound
Sir Bruce Slane
Tino Pereira
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Indeed "It's complicated" via
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Word back from the Octagon is that, at least for the moment, the police are not too keen to act hurriedly on a tresspass notice against camping and erecting tents, when you have rather a lot of the people there doing neither.
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Rumour has it the council free wifi spot in the Octagon stopped working a while ago this evening. For those interested the (council) webcam overlooking the occupy area is at:
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Does anyone (in the next hour and a half) know a rights website which outlines the powers of the Police if one is in the Octagon but not camping or erecting tents at 8pm? Asking on behalf of people for whom this may soon be relevant.
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"Thank you" Post-It notes on the Apple Store window? Weird.
Well, most people aren't doing that, but like other many other initial responses I would describe it as a personal reaction because of something that changed their lives that was made by Jobs via Apple. As a personal expression, particularly to do with a product that went through a phase where the advertising was "Here's to the crazy ones", it may well seem a bit weird to you, but that's OK.
And no Ellison won't. Most people don't have a personal interaction with Oracle databases, and those that have would not describe it as happy memories. -
Directly apropos comic on google tracking you from
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Jackie Clark,
Um, ComicLife has a Windows version.
That said, it is a very natural extension of the Mac workflow of "If in doubt, drag something onto something else" which makes it easy to get the kind of documents you want in the same way you can do everything else on the computer. I occasionally run a so you are new to the Macintosh course for staff here, and that general principle is one that can get them a long way in doing what they want once they realize how widely it can be applied.
While not an iDevice owner, like a lot of people in this thread, my feelings are regardless of his personal qualities Jobs made some computers that made it easy for me to create with, and it is that impact that those tools have had on my life that make this event more personal than it would otherwise be. -
Being outside FB, I get the tension between "what are my distant acquaintances doing" and "thankfully I avoided that drama". Though I have tended to find that the only people that invite me to be on Facebook are people that don't actually know me, possibly because people I actually know have other ways of reaching me about things that actually matter.
I know that between Google searches, gmail, gdocs, and Google chat I know Google knows a lot about me, but I console myself with it is only one company rather than two with FB as well, and historical Google has been pretty good about requiring court orders to divulge personal information and similar. That said, I'm not recommending G+ to anyone while they are insisting on real names as display names, and now and then I also have the urge to take a giant collection of words and have the computer do random searches on my behalf to pollute my search results profile. -
Vandalising of hoardings (at least those scarce few that seem to be up, which are aimed at the party vote rather than candidate) is underway in Dunedin.