Internet provision is one big thing I am not looking forward to when looking to return home. It all sounds far too much like going back to dialup (shudder!) to me.

Make sure you move to Wellington or Christchurch in range of TelstraClear cable. The service is shit compared to…

Technically NZ broadband is very good – yes slow and expensive compared to overseas, but that's primarily because of lack…

Internet provision is one big thing I am not looking forward to when looking to return home. It all sounds far too much like going back to dialup (shudder!) to me.

It depends where home is. In Wellington and Christchurch you get the TelstraClear cable and it's a very smooth…

Internet provision is one big thing I am not looking forward to…

To Simon and others with domain name management problems the Domain Name Commission is always there to ensure the smooth operation of the .nz domain space.

Thanks Don..it was actually a .info domain for my wife's site. I'd managed to move the registrar to the US based company I use…

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I read with great delight, and some sadness, the post "Misconnection"

This morning I signed up with Orcon to move our Phone/internet, after over 10 years as an ihug customer including a stretch with the wired country…

I feel like a PC World letter writer...

I tell you, this is Personal Computing gone mad.

the Domain Name Commission is always there to ensure the smooth operation of the .nz domain space.

I didn't think the DNC would get involved in what is, effectively, a contract dispute? Perfectly willing to crack heads if transfers are being resisted or other issues around the management of the…

My three more emails were finally answered today and a refund posted. It took 3 months..

To Simon and others with domain name management problems the Domain Name Commission is always there to ensure the smooth operation of the .nz domain space.

I don't think you were addressing me personally when you talk about 'it being easy to get into siege mode where everything is someone else's fault — the media, the evil Opposition, the fickle peasants, etc'. I merely note that the news media does not always serve us well.

Whew!…

I didn't realise Peters buried his mum today. I can understand why the rest are hanging back on their attack.
It isn't really the day for it.
Hyde looks like a prick & my earlier comment wasn't timed to perfection either.

Excuse me? Of course, all condolences to Peters and his…

nobody had bothered to respond to my 5 email requests

I had a hilarious experience with Xtra – I emailed their helpdesk email address from the help webpage, then got an automated reply saying the email address was not in use and I should, like, fix it myself using the…

Contacting Vodafone direct is a waste of time short of writing a letter to the GM. Vodafone has become the new Telecom, and under its misdirection Ihug is becoming the new Xtra.

Yep, I cancelled a domain hosting, a leftover from the days when worthy people I knew worked at…

I…

ADHD-afflicted peasants

So who's been reading Bridget Saunders, then...

For the record, being married I have no problem with Missus or Madam. But I struggle with Miss. Makes me sound like a mistake...

But using Miss is required. If corrected you get to reply:

I'm sorry, I have a cold.

Craig
I only get to see The Herald on line but it does seem to have gone into campaign…

How can that programme not get better ratings than, oh, I dunno, pretty much…

I think it's highly embarrassing and he's behaved like a dick post-revelation, but it's quite easy to see how the whole situation arose without any wrongdoing on Peters' part. It doesn't make him any less stupid, though.

Meh... I think Audrey Young deserved a little better before being accused of…

Um, Lucy, to quote Peters himself what part of NO didn't he understand? :)

The part where he was completely unaware who made the donations to the legal fund? I think it's highly embarrassing and he's behaved like a dick post-revelation, but it's quite easy to see how the whole…

'Unauthorised'. That just cracks me up.

Funnily enough, there was a much more entertaining piece on John Key in "The Unauthorised History Of New Zealand", on TV One last night, screened long after everyone had gone to bed and probably seen by nobody outside Jeremy Wells' immediate family, and your…

It's perfectly clear that Ton hates John Key

How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?

How does one hate John Key? It's like 'hating' something entirely ethereal. A mere phantom on the breeze.

Unlike Bill (bring back the Birch) English, who can be a nasty little ball-breaker when he…

Yeah. How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?

It's easier than you think

Yeah. How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?

Well, I guess you don't ring your mother up and tell her that she's going to get a tyre iron across the kneecaps if she talks to that nasty Eugene Bingham.

How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?

I believe this is how.

I suspect this loses something in the retelling, but maybe I just wanted to compare Craig to Linkin Park or perhaps Harry Potter in book 5 when he's all teen-angsty

Awww... couldn't you go for The Gang of Four (Marxism you can kinda dance to!) and Hermoine Grainger at her…

It's all yours, madam.

Sorry, I'm but a poor Public Servant, I was too frightened to risk "Madam" (which would be the appropriate C19th replacement).

But of course in those days wimmin wouldn't dare to speak thus, so it wouldn't have been an issue...

For the record, being married I…

'Unauthorised'. That just cracks me up.

Yeah. How exactly does one do an unauthorised interview?

I am fairly new to this blog but why is Craig Ranapia so angry?

In the olden days, if me or any of my friends found ourselves with a flatmate who liked Blindspott or Linkin Park, we'd tag team the flatmate over the course of a couple of days.
"Why…

'Unauthorised'. That just cracks me up.

A few years back, a planned feature about home invasion in one of our big metropolitans that was going to show how in fear we should all be at this mushrooming crime was pulled when the stats didn't back it up.

Well, at least they didn't just run the story…

I am fairly new to this blog but why is Craig Ranapia so angry?

Oh dear... since you asked, Suze, the only thing that get me angry any more is sheer stupidity. You don't get to moan that the Herald is a tabloid in all but format (which I do…

I can tell you from experience that all features, apart from fluffy, lifestyle ones, that appear these days in our major dailies (though can't speak for the ODT), are prescriptive. The angle and tone will be given to the reporter before a word is written.

That's not usually the case…

Oh, that's the rope that pirates use to tie their ships to the docks, right?

Oh well done Sir. Mind if I use that?

It's all yours, madam.

A few years back, a…

Get a police investigation to conclude theft, and you might have a point here.

Graeme, I daresay the police, if invited, would conclude theft in many other cases where embarrassing documents have found their way to journalists — including, quite probably, documents handled by Opposition MPs.

The difference between "theft"…

a) using the website (which refuses to update…

Oh, that's the rope that pirates use to tie their ships to the docks, right?

Oh well done Sir. Mind if I use that?

Landline? Land ... line? What is this "landline" of which you speak?

Oh, that's the rope that pirates use to tie their ships to the docks, right?

I think the anonymous legal fund donations policy has come back to trip him up in a very bad way, and while he probably _should_ have thought about the legal fund, stupidity is not the same as wilful misdirection.

Um, Lucy, to quote Peters himself what part of NO didn't…

"The problem with the Herald piece is not that it was pretty soft, but that it was sold as an 'unauthorised biography' when it was clearly a team effort between the Herald and the National leaders comms staff.

If you're going to publish a puff piece at least have the…

over the way a leaked email has Peters blown up by his own bomb. But, er, shouldn't that be "stolen" email? Just sayin'.

Get a police investigation to conclude theft, and you might have a point here.

National at the time suggested compueter hacking, which the police ruled out, but…

How can the Herald describe an fawning eight page (with more to come) hagiography of John Key as "unauthorised"

I think MikeE alluded to this already bit I think if it were "authorised" it could make it an election advertisement and therefore be counted in the National Party's spending allowance.…

we were won over by the card on the DVD: "Best Godzilla movie EVAR!!

Dude you got scammed!
The best Godzilla ever is the original Japanese version (without Raymond Burr over the top). Although G v Hedorah (the Smog Monster) was always my number 2 choice. So I suppose it…

Well there was no authorisation statement on the biography under the EFA ...

They didn't need one – the Herald is after all a newspaper.

But yes, Key can't reprise Brash and have a made-for-election biography published without it being considered an election advertisement. Nice of his mates at APN…

However, a Vodafone neighbour closer…

I've got a bridge in San Francisco to sell you, if you're that credulous.

What are the views like? If I bundle this into an LAQC and rent it to Asian students I too can my have my own Lamborghini, yeah?
:>

Sorry, but I really think Winston's been just…

And for all you know, the Herald could have been desperately trying to find anyone who'd say something nasty about Key and they just couldn't find 'em. Not some sinister conspiracy.

*lol*

Craig, rather than shouting "Satan" and "Nazi" (i.e. rebutting comments which nobody has come anywhere near making),

simon g: Cute, but no cigar. It's perfectly clear that Ton hates John Key, and he's entitled to his view. But I'll say this once more, seeing something in a newspaper that doesn't…

Speaking of tedious Craig, I was actually counting down to a ill-mannered personal attack on me from yourself,.

Well, at least you can count. Get back to me when you've learned to work a dictionary and know what a hagiography is. Sorry to tell you and your soul brothers on…

Craig, rather than shouting "Satan" and "Nazi" (i.e. rebutting comments which nobody has come anywhere near making), why not just rebut the "hagiography" notion by linking/quoting the critical bits? Out of all those thousands of words, there must be plenty…

Re Winston – this may not be a particularly popular position, but I'm kinda siding with him on this one.

As much as it pains me,I am in agreement with you. Peters' lawyer was quite clear this morning on Morning Report that he hadn't told Peters of the donation and…

;-)

If you're going to publish a puff piece at least have the…

Me and the Standard boys? I kinda like that, makes me sound like the leader of a male version of the Dixie Chicks

I'll take that, because you're about as tedious and predictable as a Dixie Chicks album.

Of course its a hagiography.

Of course, anything that doesn't denounce John…

Poor bloody "I'm not authorised to help you" call centre workers.

To be fair to Telecom, that's an entirely justified attitude. Russell isn't their customer, his provider is. There's a whole world of pain for Telecom if they put diverts in on lines that have been unbundled from them, potentially…

How can the Herald describe an fawning eight page (with more to come) hagiography of John Key as "unauthorised" when it's content clearly shows their reporters had full access to him, his family, family records, etc etc?

Jesus, Tom. I found it rather cringe-inducing, but a hagiography? I'm really sorry…

Why is it that…

How can the Herald describe an fawning eight page (with more to come) hagiography of John Key as "unauthorised" when it's content clearly shows their reporters had full access to him, his family, family records, etc etc?

Just asking.