Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Speaking of technology, I wonder why papers are printed at all anymore.
Your solution sounds a lot like RSS feeds.
I only buy a paper if I want to look at the adverts - very rarely.
Otherwise I pick up the stuff sports feed, national news, public address etc.
Printing it out is _so_ 2007.
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Give a guy a blog and it's all incomplete statistics and line graphs.
Now that Keith is back, maybe he could write a critique and rip it to shreds?
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I presume All Black supporters that are there just fit in and shut the hell up as well. See, there is a way to make them polite :)
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Southee is playing over Kyle Mills. That's bizarre. I would have put Southee in over Elliot, or O'Brien.
Still, three wickets, when Southee is on form, he bowls well.
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But [and I'm saying this because the injury thing got me thinking] Tracey's stats don't contain amount of time on the field do they?
Yes they do. Haydn just hasn't incorporated them.
From the Ireland game from Tracey's page:
An asterisk denotes a player that came on as a substitute. This week: Aofa for Woodcock (yellow card) at 45 min then Woodcock back on for Tialata at 60 min, Weepu for Cowan at 60 min, Toeava for Smith at 63 min, Flynn for Mealamu 65 min, Tialata back on for Woodocock at 67 min, Read for Kaino at 71 min, Donald for Carter at 75 min.
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I found this hugely distasteful. People entering into a polygamous relationship in Malaysia receive mandatory and extensive counselling first. Now they're being asked to say which one is their 'proper' wife - with all the loss of benefits and legal status for the discarded spouses that entails.
That's interesting. I'm struggling to, in a few seconds, ponder if there are any similar policies in different areas.
My first thought was married immigrants, where one or both of them were under legal marrying age in New Zealand - would NZ recognise that marriage? But I that's not a fair comparison with polygamy at all.
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And when people talk about copyright as a "natural right", I think we can look across the grand sweep of time, in which copyright can be seen as an anomaly ;-)
And you can look at the reasons things like copyright and patents were brought in, which included trying to encourage publishing and invention.
AH, but does quantity equal quality?
There was a lot of truly awful art done in the middle ages. Worth millions now.
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OK James, you've posted three broken links in a morning. Do you need the cheat sheet?
Yeah next thing ya know those chumps will dream up some flash new stadium you can't play cricket in.
I find myself more and more having discussions with people and having to say "oh, I'm in favour of _a_ new stadium. Just not really this one..."
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Also, the world lasted quite well without it for several thousand years - books got written, music got composed, pictures were painted.
I'm not sure if the 15th century painting and publishing is particularly useful for either side in this argument. I'm not opposed to 'copyright should be different/less/etc in the 21st century'. But 'the world got by before copyright'? The amount of publishing that occurred in the whole 15th century probably matches the amount of publishing that occurs in... a day in 2008. There's different worlds and then there's that galaxy that they took a photo of a million light years away.
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BTW, I watched the Munster replay last night, and I really think we should adopt the use of silence during kicks - it's really powerful shit!
Yeah, I was impressed by that too.
How is this new to everyone now though? Presumably this happened every other time we played in Ireland. I can't recall it being discussed or noticing it during games.