Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to Peter Darlington,
We don’t have enough Skrillex on the PAS music pages.
We have rules about trolling on this site.
;-)
That's a lot of fun.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Going Large, in reply to Simon Bennett,
At the very least I’d want Airplay capability to stream the music around the house and into my main system via Apple TV.
The problem with that is that the digital to analog conversion then gets done at the destination device, not in the super-hi-fi player you've paid hundreds of dollars for.
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Ooops – nearly forgot. ‘Royals’ gets the kapa haka treatment from students at Lorde’s old school, performing at Polyfest. I'd like to hear the whole thing!
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The MetVUW forecast chart for 1pm Sunday. Shit. Please stay safe, my friends.
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to jh,
I see what you are getting at and I often wonder why if life in the country is so good why do masses leave to go to cities? It seems to be for economic reasons.
There may also be another reason relating to our evolutionary past excitementLife the in the country ain't so good in a lot of ways: your access to and quality of education, healthcare and culture is likely to be poorer. Schools and hospitals won't be as well equipped, movies and bands don't play, there are no art galleries. And if you're young, there aren't many people your age.
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Pew has posted a nice Web timeline. I remember a lot of this stuff.
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If anything, what James Dann has revealed today (with the assistance of Keith Ng) is actually bigger than Judith Collins' present trouble.
As both a backbencher and Minister of the Environment, Amy Adams may have derived substantial benefit from the eCan takeover and what followed.
If that's the case and she didn't comprehensively declare any conflicts of interest, she must resign, reckons Rob Salmond.
No Right Turn says she declared no interests as an MP and it's unclear whether her declarations as a minister were sufficient.
I'm kind of amazed at how vague her ministerial declarations were allowed to be.
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
There was ukeleles, electric guitars and singing and laughter. I was very, very impressed by the community tightness of this corner of old Auckland.
Thanks Geoff. I'm sad for your loss, but cheered by what you've said about that community.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to llew40,
How Cunliffe and Norman/Turei play this dynamic will be fascinating.
Maybe Grant Robertson will have a role to play there too. He seems capable of collegiality in this area.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Hard as it is for me to accept, close to 50% of the electorate have liked Key, and been happy with this Govt, for the last 6 years. If their popularity is dipping, even a little* it’s still been a remarkable ride.
*they are very aware their relatively popular govt has a slender majority, and with even a small dip in their vote would struggle to stay in Govt.I think that sums it up well.
