Posts by Ian Dalziel
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iTunes is great for making your own comps though.
the evolution of the Mix Ape
a central, funded, NZ music archive
I thought the National Library (maybe Turnbull or Hocken) archived all NZ releases (and ephemera) - might be a simple, and supportive, step for them to make that available somehow - perhaps along the NZ film/on screen model...
If national library already has the hard copies, that's a large step towards such a thing right there.
I'm surprised there isn't the equivalent of ISBN system for "published" songs/albums...I went into Borders Chch shop for the first time yesterday - I wonder who buys a lot of what they have available, not to say that that there wasn't anything I wanted there
(in fact bought a book of PK Dick's writings on philosophy and other matters) - though I might go to a local retailer, like Madras Cafe Books, for a coupla others I saw at Borders (and in case ya hadn't heard Smiths Bookshop has moved south down Manchester St to 117 - end of the 3 floors of books era!)Meanwhile the last independent Record/CD shops in New Plymouth and Blenheim have closed
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Hidebound egghead leatherboy...
I think he is more Face-ist - a real major-domeo
or even Fascia-ist - like a wooden plank
definitely Fatuous- Local government should be confined to the core activities that produce general public benefits, such as regulation, flood control and roads.
...and art
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I wonder how much impact stuff like the huge increase to Australian gyms for the use of music in workout sessions will have on this figure next year.
With a stronger musicians' union they could all be forced to have live musicians instead...
somewhere for the next gymee hendrix to cut his/her chops - help get pianists out of the pits...In my day we bought tapes or records. What happens today?
I guess there's no 8-track cassette action anymore...
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Bryer-ties and other bunnies...
At first I thought maybe he's working off a debt?
but then I found this - jobs for the boys then:The interesting thing from a Canberra angle is that, according to a report in the NZ Herald, Northern Crest Investments is paying Bryers over $10,000 a month, and the $5,000 a month rent on his Sydney apartment, for his “intellectual property”.
The chair of Northern Crest Investments is, according to the NZ Herald, “Marc Wilson, a Canberra accountant.”
One wonders what Mr Wilson hopes to gain from Mr Bryers’ expertise?so I guess Intellectual properties aren't affected by Bankruptcy - I'd have thought any earnings on them would be subject to creditors demands if they are the same intellectual properties (ie his "Business expertise"!!?) that created the mess...
and then I see in NCI's annual report (2008) that Bryers was the founder of Northern Crest Investments Ltd - "Mark Bryers is a founder of the Northern Crest business and has considerable know how and expertise in property investment products"
just not book keeping apparently...
even though he "studied law at Auckland University and majored in accounting."
and his career history includes "...acting as a barrister and solicitor, merchant banking, property development and holding several senior positions in large trading companies."
that is Oscar-worthy acting indeed...further to what Heather pointed out I see that NCI was a backdoor listing on the stock Exchange in NZ (and is delisted on the ASX)
Previously named as:
* BLUE CHIP FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED until 2008, Apr 1st
* BLUE CHIP NEW ZEALAND LIMITED until 2005, Oct 4th
* NEWCALL GROUP LIMITED until 2004, Jul 1st
* THE NEW ZEALAND SALMON COMPANY LIMITED until 1999, Sep 20ththere is some relevant commentary on this by Jenny Ruth :
who notes thatThe company is in its third incarnation, having started corporate life 1983 as New Zealand Salmon and then morphing into Newcall Communications, which had a similarly sorry existence until the Blue Chip transaction. Shareholders were faced with an invidious choice: approve the back-door listing or your company will be left with an estimated $135,000 to $170,000 shortfall owed to unsecured creditors and liquidators costs.
and Brian Gaynor has an interesting article on the history of back-door listings in NZ:
Blue Chip was originally listed on the NZX in 1983 as The New Zealand Salmon Company Ltd. It was not a commercial success and in 1999 the company was used as the backdoor listing for Newcall, a telecommunications company.
Newcall was also unsuccessful and on July 1, 2004 it was used as the backdoor listing for Mark Bryers' Blue Chip. The PricewaterhouseCoopers independent report concluded that the former New Zealand Salmon/Newcall group had nil value after over 20 years in operation.
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a case of robbing salt- peter to pay pall -bearers?
Fag ends anyone -
...all those semicolons.
...and I always thought a semicolon was an
asshole in a big truck!
Anatomy was never my strong point...
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Carr squanders resources...
All I'm hearing is the cull of staff & Carr's targeting of Librarians.
Carr and cronies are blind to many opportunities - a large number of fabulous solid Rimu shelves from the Uni of Canterbury library showed up at a Demolition / Salvage company recently and were sold at a pittance by them (you wouldn't have bought two short lengths of Rimu for the price they sold each unit for!) so I dread to think what the University got for them!
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Even when Jonkey managed to say it himself. Working for Families? Two parents, two kids, not even counting the trouble they'll have with free daycare now (ECE my ass), pay nothing after WFF credits, all they way up to where most people live.
Surely that shonky, wonky, honky, Jonkey
would be useful for entertaining kids? -
...where my great-grandfather lived 160 years ago, which is now the Holy Smoke restaurant in Ferry Road.
I had lunch there last sunday
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Tomb it may concern...
When I was about 11 we spent a year in Salem, Connecticut (about 42 degrees N to Christchurch's 42 S :). There was a walk we sometimes took: down a lane, alonside a stone wall; over a stile, and then down a path through a forest. Coming out of the trees, there was a huge field of tall, waving grass, burnt brown in the sun, and emerging from this, a pair of stone lions.
Beyond the lions was, I would swear, a mythical graveyard. It was very old, very big, quite abandoned. There were no houses or church nearby, just another crumbling stone wall, and more forest.
If you left from that direction, you emerged from the forest to find some cottages along a riverbank. The geography was impossible, somehow- the river twisted and turned; the paths through the woods entered my dreams, and became entangled in turn.Rob, as Thomas Gray* said"
"Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude Forefathers of the hamlet sleep."Salem Connecticut, home to Hiram Bingham III
rediscoverer of Machu Picchu...
and this sorta cottage?sounds like H. P. Lovecraft territory...
or Emily Dickinson...
but wrong Salem/wrong State...
magickal anyway - don't ever lose it
maybe we need another Google Earth overlay
- Gogol Earth so we can perceive the
fantastical that coexists...*Gray's "Elegy written in a country church-yard" would never have happened if he had suffered
from coimetrophobia