Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Very nice & congratulations, the flowers are certainly interesting.
While it doesn't sport an internationally recognised brand name, it looks rather more reassuring than these iStoves. -
Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Kumara Republic,
anyone spot the inconsistency between the usual suspects happily playing the ‘Iwi/Kiwi’ card, and their seemingly John Frum-ish approach to Chinese (and Wall Street) money?
Your recent online comments re. the 'honorary white' status of cashed-up Japanese in apartheid era South Africa, while Chinese remained coloured due to their lesser economic clout, did spring to mind.
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Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Lilith __,
Has Athfield gone? So who's meant to be in charge, then??
Good question. Effectively, insofar as the position of "architectural ambassador" has any practical meaning, he's been gone for months. In practice his status seems to be every bit as nebulous as the distinction between Council and Cera. Presumably there's some form of stipend involved.
As for Williams, I didn't have a problem with the piece, apart from its pessimism being all too convincing. -
There was a YouTube video a while back that seems to have vanished. In a repeated loop, Ian Athfield appears about to make some kind of public statement. An orange-jacketed and visibly annoyed Mayor Parker aggressively inserts himself between Athfield and the camera and takes a pace backwards, effectively shoving the relatively diminutive architect out of shot.
Athfield's sudden post-quake involvement, and even more sudden departure, now seems just another loopy chapter in what's becoming a very ugly saga. Lyn Williams's interesting - for me - opinion piece has been online since last December. It's the kind of thing that the Press reject in favour of the witterings of Mike Yardley.
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Optus, Australia's second-largest telco, has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the State-owned Singapore Telecommunications since 2001. At the time of the takeover concerns were raised about Singaporean ownership. Evidence was produced of how the Singaporean telco regularly co-operated with its Government owner to monitor its citizens, who enjoyed relatively little legal protection from such incursions.
I don't recall any Australian State security agency sharing those concerns back then.
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Hard News: NZ On Screen: The…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Lyttleton locals
Lyttelton locals...
<FTFY>It's an easy slip to make, especially for those with childhood memories of taking the train through the tunnel:
"We went into the little tin and they put the lid on." -
Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Lilith __,
The military is experienced and effective in disaster relief, and we are glad of that.
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Did you know they float?
That'd be the ugniberries. Why so they do. You got a recipe to go with that?
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s clearly some sort of correction for the infamous Waitangi Day column . . .
Yeah. And Kofi Annan used to be some kind of cocky little bastard.
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Capture: Better Food Photography, in reply to Steve Barnes,
...the fruit tastes just like tinned fruit salad, even down to the hint of tin.
Spot on description. I wonder if that taste is potassium oxalate: The unripe green fruits can irritate the throat and the latex of the leaves and vines can create rashes in the skin, because both contain potassium oxalate: that's the reason why the fruits have to be consumed when the scales lift up