Posts by Sacha
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Editing te Herald ftw. Fantastic description of the town cheerleader:
a man whose professional responsibility it is to have a massive hard-on for anything happening in the vicinity of Newmarket
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Current ARC councillor Joel Cayford is a fan of Curitiba's transport system. We have components like integrated ticketing on the way but others have been thwarted by central government decisions and poor local prioritising over the years.
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Anybody know anything about the KoBo, whitcoull's just available- here e-reader?
Funny you should ask that, Peter McLennan was just telling me this afternoon about his first encounter. Sounds like slothful performance and some poor interface choices count against it. However, maybe that's only apparent if you've used an iPad first...
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If you turn the iPad over, it doubles as a chopping board.
So *that's* why they didn't stick a camera in it
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I've got it
that does sound appropriately turtle-neckish
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snap - market cap
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What, nothing about 3D for depth and not cheap thrills?
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You don't have to be an Apple fanboi to appreciate the impact the iPad could have - especially if you paid any attention to the difference in what was said about the iPhone before and after its launch.
There's much discussion going on about the iPad's usability, with app developers noting the difference between what they thought it would work like and what it's like to actually use for more than 30 minutes. Owning one would seem a prerequisite for more than shallow critique.
And open source advocates criticising Apple's tight integration and business model is to be expected and welcomed - it's quite a big choice.
To me it all seems pretty much like noting that Avatar changes the movie experience, whether or not you enjoyed it.
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"That sounds nice, but how would you actually deliver?"
I'm not sure how more concrete you are expecting them to be than for example having monthly meetings with the CCO heads as Brown suggested.
they've actually got to work with the whole council and work within the legislative framework that exists.
Neither candidate can promise to change national law but most of what I've heard them say does not require that.
I agree about working with the whole Council. Whichever faction wins the majority of Council seats is likely to be very influential in shaping the CCO accountability policy stipulated in the revised 3rd bill. That matters almost more than who gets to be Mayor, despite that office's stronger-than-in-other-Councils powers - which both candidates seem to be playing to so far.
Rejecting the blatant interference from government also explains the noise about political "control", to me.
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what star wars would be like if they had facebook
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