And is a teleconference discoverable

Interesting point: I would say technically yes, but the defence is simply that the record is not retained.

The letter of the law (ETA 2002) says that any electronic record has the same standing as a "paper" one. This means that any streamed media (VoIP,…

1. If you have a big piss up on a conference, it doesn't have to be coded to Staff Entertainment, which means you can get away with…

Why don't they offer the Beehive banquet hall at a good price to Govt Depts?

They do. And the reception halls in the Beehive itself. The security has an interesting effect I suspect: the CEO's and stuff think it's cool, most of us sigh as we submit to another scan…

I'm talking about this on the radio next week.

And sweet fuck all effort being made to convince me that it was.

True. And that might be because it deserved to die. My point isn't that there wasn't subsequent public debate about the merits of the conference, my point is that there doesn't seem to have been prior internal…

And sweet fuck all effort being made to convince me that it was.

Given that it's been cancelled by the person at the head of the food chain, I suspect there would be little point in anyone now arguing for it in public, or elsewhere.

"Now who can we get to run the Families Commission."

Crony No.1 "Well we do have a woman who has had a kid/kids (not sure) she must know all about families and, ya know, having a women as its head is so today. Woman ...um... families it show how up…

Kiwirail – that's two flightless birds. Carbon footprints aside, it's against nature that anyone in their employ should fly at all.

The next time I'm required to take a Welly flight early in the week I intend to push for a weekend rail ticket instead.

I think I'd even pay…

As a citizen-shareholder, I'm sure you'd be pleased about every possible penny being "reallocated" to infrastructure and staff recruitment and training.

Maybe the extra staff recruitment and training will be needed to replace all the staff that leave for somewhere less austere.

John Key, thinks aloud to himself whilst some cronies lurk around.
"Now who can we get to run the Families Commission."

Crony No.1 "Well we do have a woman who has had a kid/kids (not sure) she…

But you won't find fat by randomly cutting off big lumps, because you're as likely to sever a head as a wobbly bum.

A metaphor so strained that I believe I can hear it creaking ....

I think I heard it screaming, actually.

. . . some folks in my partner's employer (Kiwirail) are spending a less time flying off to Wellington for the day . . .

Kiwirail – that's two flightless birds. Carbon footprints aside, it's against nature that anyone in their employ should fly at all.

The problem is that you don't know whether the conference was needed...

And sweet fuck all effort being made to convince me that it was. In the end, I can't get too torn up that some folks in my partner's employer (Kiwirail) are spending a less time flying off to…

we all suspect that after a week in the job, Paula Bennett didn't know whether it was needed either.

No suspicion required. She said so yesterday.

as glib as a televangelist dripping in cheese

Surely a journo could spin a headline out of that gold. I believe Noelle has some free time..

Oh, so those on the front line don't spend any time thinking about "the big picture"? Sorry, but it might be useful if the blue sky thinkers actually got out of the seminar room and spent a little more time down where those clever flow charts and mission…

So…

little miss solo mother

Yeah not cool dude...

Sorry, but it might be useful if the blue sky thinkers actually got out of the seminar room and spent a little more time down where those clever flow charts and mission statements have to be translated into tangible results.

That seems…

little miss solo mother

Steve, dude, srsly? That didn't feel at all unnecessary when you typed it?

Whats they bet they bought this to her attention and wrote the media strategy -with their eyes closed- for…

I have no opinion on Auckland's noisy, winking Santa. There, I've said it now.

He knows you can never underestimate the media's love of an effortless headline.

Anything that keeps the DomPost from printing the headlines they put effort into ("Moms Sob at Inquest into Seven Cot Deaths") is fine by me.

Getting a bit sick of what passes for journalism in this otherwise…

In the last term, Labour were hopeless at not seeing the easy and empty stories coming (light bulbs, showers, etc.). National are as glib…

I don't mind the conference being cancelled. Or I might mind a little, but that's not the main point really.

To me, it's a media stunt by National. Find something that we can loudly and obviously cut as 'lavish' and put…

As someone pointed out in one of the news shows last night – the money for the conference is being reallocated – it's not being saved – so the whole thing is nothing more than a beat up by bennet et al.

Bovine excrement, Michael. So CTU President Helen Kelly…

They'd not only be saving money. but bringing people to spend that saved money, in Wellington!

Or if it has to be elsewhere, scout halls are always good value.

The expression is 'live-blogging' but what constitutes a life, exactly?

Ouch !