Sam's 9, I must start teaching him how to rebuild the things himself, save me the bother.

Of course. But if your house is like mine, you'll reach a point where the little scamp thinks he knows more than he really does, and things get a bit messy.

Trust the repairs are going well – in the meantime here is the best promo I've heard for Leopard

Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.

from Chip

I touught that the concept of peering had fallen on deaf ears from the tenor of your post after you attended the Auckland City Link on the subject. I should have had more faith perhaps.

You must have missed a few posts since then Neil ;-)

I also took him up on his comments about peering. In New Zealand, I pointed out, the two major carriers had ceased open peering with anyone but each other, and basically broken the network.

I touught that the concept of peering had fallen on…

Heh. The iMac's got a way to go before it overhauls the piece-of-crap Acer in the kids' room though. And Firewire target disk mode is a remarkably handy way to get to a hosed computer ...

Heh, I lost the system disk on the family PC last week. Relatively minor…

Aahahaha.... Apple pwns j00, Russb. You forgot to sacrifice your first-born to The iJobs, didn't you? Told you, he doesn't take kindly to such omissions.

Heh. The iMac's got a way to go before it overhauls the piece-of-crap Acer in the kids' room though. And Firewire target disk mode is…

The police then take her phone book, phone, PDA and computer and haul every one in them in, her parents and grandparents included, for urine and hair tests......they still do that sort of thing

All the time, I gather. You can be sent to jail solely on blood-test evidence. If…

in Singapore, they hang you for drugs and police officers in tight trousers cruise the parks to entrap gay men. Well, I'm not sure that happens any more, to be honest.

Mediacorp actress got caught with coke at Velvet Underground in one of those not uncommon stings at nightclubs where…

They sometimes get bright kids, who have to go off for their compulsory national service (two years in either the military or the police, and two weeks a year thereafter) — and come back as drones.

NZ has it's own version of that. It's called the Massey MBA. You can…

Repaired disk damage with Disk Warrior (seven hours!) and now have it started up in Firewire target disk mode and am conducting the lengthy…

The only way to centre myself is to remember that back home I…

The advertising circuit in Singapore is pretty damn good . . .

As in Batey/Singapore Airlines being a license to print money? From my recollections of '87-'89, practically all creatives were expats. As, I'm willing to bet, were the 'industry people' Russell mentions. The complaints back then sound eerily similar…

Must invite you round on laundry day – fun, fun, fun. :)

Have you thought about applying for a grant for that? ;-)

but it seems clear enough that places with a reasonable stock of bohemians, artists and poofs are more interesting places to live.

Must invite you round on laundry day – fun, fun, fun. :) But things let really interesting when 'creativity' is just a wee bit anarchic, and has the…

Sounds like Akamai have a brilliant business – aren't they basically delivering peering under the guise of "delivery optimisation" and charging for it? A P/E of 125 suggests that the market thinks that...

What they do is move content from one edge of the network to the other — not…

Sounds like Akamai have a brilliant business – aren't they basically delivering peering under the guise of "delivery optimisation" and charging for it? A P/E of 125 suggests that the market thinks that...…

It's not like New Zealand's arts hippies have to be ordered to go forth and be creative. (You half expect the announcment of an official creativity target – 15% more creative in 2007!) And Helen hasn't quite got to the stage of issuing "prime directives" ...

Fair enough, and I'm…

. . . without a single content person in the house. Not one.

Wow. Sounds just like a Film Commission outreach-to-Auckland-filmmakers event of nearly 20 years ago. All Coopers & Lybrand types, bugger all filmmakers.

I had a look at a Singapore government creativity website.

Yep so did I....you could have warned me about the sound.

Had the surround rig turned up loud...disturbing !

I had a look at a Singapore government creativity website. It seems like the National Party's wet dream of what an arts/creativity policy would be. Must... generate... income.

*sigh* Robyn,I'm not even going to bother getting into a partisan slap-fest on that but I'd respectfully suggest that the incumbent minister…

I had a look at a Singapore government creativity website. It seems like the National Party's wet dream of what an arts/creativity policy would be. Must... generate... income.

Actually I think that's a bit unfair to Chris Finlayson.

But from that site:

For decades, Singapore’s prosperity has been accredited to…

And don't worry about Mike Moore – these days people take his pronouncements about as seriously as they do Michael Bassets.

The official recognition of the problem — the new official "Creative City" policy, under which the government decrees creativity – is somewhat ironic.

I had a look at a Singapore government creativity website. It seems like the National Party's wet dream of what an arts/creativity policy would be. Must... generate...…

Brilliant write up Russell. I was at the schools stage challenge in Wellington last night. Talk about creativity. I think the future of NZ is in good hands, even if they can't vote yet

I was talking to some advertising industry people last night: they have a big problem with…

Oddly enough, he said, because the two big carriers, SingTel and StarHub, were so "competitive" -…