Posts by Russell Brown
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Holy heck.
Computerworld is now reporting that the breaches might extent to CERA and other agencies, thanks to their shared services agreements with MSD.
Daniel Ayers is speculating that one of the viewable servers in Keith's screenshot is CERA's office server.
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to Bruce Ellis,
One thing that John Campbell does that I thoroughly approve of is the credit he gives on stories to the reporters and the back office staff – camera people, editors, producers et al.
I'm a big fan of that. In particular, when you make TV, you learn how much art and craft your video editor brings to your report. They are crucial people. So I had a bit of a fan moment this week when I met the famous Toby Longbottom in his edit-suite environment.
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Field Theory: Man Moments, in reply to Tristan,
I guess I’m having trouble getting worked up by this on the beer/ sexism scale this is pretty mild to what tui et al serves up every week and I don’t see PA posts on them.
See, I’m way less annoyed by the Tui stuff than by Moa’s dumb branding. The Tui ads are amiable. What Moa keeps on doing just makes me think of some tosspot from Parnell trying too hard.
Which is annoying, because I like the product, but I’m not going to validate the marketing by buying it.
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Field Theory: Man Moments, in reply to slarty,
And I know everyone’s going to get defensive of their position now. So go on, unleash the intellectual vitriol. I’ll check back in after a few days.
Kicking off by making unflattering generalisations about the rest of the community doesn't usually work out too well, no.
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Field Theory: Man Moments, in reply to Lilith __,
The trouble with the archaic-misogynist pitch is that surely a big part of the craft-beer market is smart, educated, thinking people. Who are going to think this is douchey and lame.
This is precisely it. This site would very probably have had a promotional relationship with Moa some time ago, but I thought its marketing would alienate our readers. When the product is good, that's a shame.
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Hard News: Music: Decked Out, in reply to Peter Darlington,
This is what’s been bending my bass bins for the last few weeks:
Is that the one you tweeted me about? I must investigate.
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Stand back. I am about to share a Spotify link for the first time ...
Arch Hill act Ghostwave's quirky, groovy Flight Mode mixtape.
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In updated AirPlay news, the fact that AirPlay is now built into the operating system will finally induce me to upgrade to Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to graeme muir,
It’s entirely your prerogative to prefer one programme over another, but I wonder if you’ve taken the time lately to properly watch, because the above statement just reads to me like a cute line (recycled tweet to John Campbell n’ all).
Thanks for coming here, Graeme. That line did sound harsher than I meant it to, so my apologies for that, but I don’t resile from my view about your rival’s recent performance and sense of purpose.
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to Lilith __,
I have some significant regrets about how I covered the Corngate story at the time too. It was a fraught scene.