Posts by David Hood
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Like many Mac owners I collect Word Processors, searching for the elusive perfect creative tool. To handle Word means being able to more or less replicate Word's page layout features (and bugs), so nothing that comes close is lightweight. But other honourable mentions go to:
Mellel- best multilingual, best long structured academic docs word processor, but with only limited word compatibility it is for "lone wolf" writing projects were you are passing exported copy as rtf or pdf (it is also on sale via macupdate.com for the next day or so by chance).
iText Express- best free word processor by a long way. It actually does footnotes (in wrap to page mode). With the document window open the word count will update as soon as you stop typing (to be fair, Mellel's info window count is live). My daughter wrote her first magazine article using iText Express.
NeoOffice- probably the most Word compatible one. But to use it daily, erugh. -
Without wishing to Darrochise the thread, I see that as part of her implosion Lily Allen was getting some flak for hypocrisy (or possibly just cluelessness) over respecting copyright and file sharing.
http://torrentfreak.com/lily-allen-pirates-music-is-clueless-about-copyright-090923/
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I guess it would be nicer to be Minister for Tourism at a time when visitor numbers are going up rather than down.
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I nominate the Peptides cover of Peter Shilling's "Major Tom", which has a space capsule.
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In N.Z. it is entirely untested, a bit like author's moral rights.
In the U.S.A. slavish reproduction does not make for new copyright.
In the U.K. there have been court decisions that hint at both for and against the attachment of new copyright.For a good summary of the history of law in this area and the current wikipedia case, see
http://lawclanger.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-not-often-that-copyright-cases-get.html -
I guess I knew he was a dancer
Someone said that he was overseas
I guess he is a dreamer
who just can't stand Auckland has trees. -
From the Otago Daily Times (Sat 19th Sep), of the 59 people currently before the courts 26 are Otago students. The 44% percentage may go up a bit as more people are charged, and would be a bit lower if you counted the people who had already pled out. So from this I draw the conclusions:
-most of the discussion (diversion/ University justice etc) in this thread is directed at the minority of those charged that were Otago students, ignoring the majority.
-the event was acting a a draw card for Youf that wanted to be confrontational with the police. -
I ran some very quick and unscientific comparisons of the yes vote with figures from the census for the general electorates (from Stats NZ)
Number of families with children, and numbers of children per family make no difference, nor does number of smokers in the electorate. It would seem to be a matter of education though, as there are what look like possible correlations between the yes vote and percentage of postgraduates, and slight one with the yes vote and internet access (for both see here). In both cases, Manukau East and Manurewa are much higher than expected Yes vote electorates, suggesting that the no vote publicity mechanisms did not work so well in those communities. -
Concerns about public photography have a lot to do with the imagined character of the photographer. I think the Chaser's War on Everything covered this best:
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I found a google-code example that will drive your route for you using streetview, at:
http://gmaps-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/streetview/streetview_directions.html
But with New Zealand internet speeds, it is probably faster to actually drive the route.