Posts by Paul Campbell
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Don't worry - this whole thing will stop being an issue when Destiny take over the govt .....
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and besides - that mixing of deer and antelope - that's just gonna have to stop right there when the christian right take over ...
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Q1: The first game of the 1981 Springbok tour was against which team in which city?
Gisborne if I remember - against Poverty Bay - the next game was in Hamilton against HART and was called
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My take on the latest Iran announcement is somewhat along the line of "last time we in the CIA told those bozos in the White House what was going on, but they ignored is, and then blamed us for the resulting mess - this time we're going on the record ..."
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One more piece of feedback about the Broadband Map - using orange for telecom might be a mistake since the underlying map is using the same colour for main roads and 1 way streets
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it also doesn't work with my browser - type my whole address in, click submit and it complains I haven't filled it in
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we were talking about this just last night at the local LUG/pub - I want fibre running down my street, pref thru my cellar and I don't mind kicking in something for infrastructure provided I can get it back over time - $1-2k as an early adopter connection cost to get the public fibre past my house in in exchange for a lowered access rate for a while would make sense to me (back in '91 I helped start an ISP using basically that model - didn't end up owning it but got free service for years afterwards - everyone won)
I want IPTV on my local fibre, IP phone service and competition up the wazoo to provide services - in some sense FreeView helping to put fibre into hilly Dunedin make a lot more sense than pushing broadcast TV
The problem of course is that laying fibre, digging up streets is terribly capital extensive - you can't really have 10 different sets of people do it up every street - but IP provides a wonderfull place for competition - so by all means unbundle the local loop - put in the investment to make it fast and ubiquitous then let people compete to put the best packets on it
Supposedly Dunedin sold our old gas mains to Telecom for $1 - I think it's time to take back the ones they aren't using ($2 would be a tidy profit) and start installing fibre - I proposed this to the city council last year but was ignored
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Aussie Prime Minister John
Thought he'd carefully pass the baton
But he forced work-choices
Each worker rejoices
As the Aussies just said "begone" -
(maybe I should have said "no one smiled" - it was just strangely uncomfortable)
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heh - after my 4th trip across the pacific for biz this year my bags started coming out first tagged with magic orange tags - a few weeks later a United gold card arrived in the mail - now I can attend the Koru Club for free on my way overseas ......
this morning after coming in from SFO - hot, sweaty, bearded/ponytailed, unslept and unkempt dressed in a leather jacked, tshirt, jeans and birkenstocks I bowled on in to the one in the Auckland domestic terminal - boy was I out of place - people in impeccable suits gave me wary looks as I stood in line for coffee, no one said "hi"
I too have been promoted to somewhere wierd