Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Dotcom: Further news of the unlikely, in reply to Juha Saarinen,
You would have to wonder that, yes.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to David Haywood,
If you flip me the specs, I’d be happy to have a look at the proposed system for your house.
Thank you! Nova sells a SolarElite system using these panels.
The panels have “flow tubes” but I can’t tell from the comments here whether these are the good sort of tubes.
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Hard News: A wretched editorial, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
I’m not sure how that is worse. It shows 1. that they didn’t front-page the interview, and 2. that their news team thought the story was on the speaking out, which was also the focus of the editorial.
Yeah, sorta. My original point was that they if they'd got the exclusive 3rd Degree got, they'd have gone with it big-time. But I think I'll let the amendment stand now.
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I've amended the post to reflect the fact that the Star Times did in fact eventually get an interview with Billingsley.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Martin Connelly,
If you get solar hot water – make sure you get vacuum tubed systems – not flat panel systems
Ooh. How come?
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Hard News: A wretched editorial, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And just to throw some crazy reality-based supposition into the pot, wouldn’t it be a fair assumption that Three had lawyers running the proverbial fine-tooth nit-pick over every second of that interview before it aired?
That appears to have been precisely the case.
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Hard News: Going solar?, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
What investment are you worried about wasting if you are saving money?
Would it make any sense to wait for PV? Would that be a better long-term investment than buying into solar water-heating now?
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I finally have a moment to tell the story. Yes, I helped put Amanda Palmer in touch with Peter Jefferies.
She and I were both part of Webstock in 2012 and the moment I arrived at the speakers' dinner the night before the conference, Keith Bolland rushed up to me to ask if I'd heard of this New Zealand musician Amanda was asking about and no one else had heard of.
Why yes, I said, I used to flat with him in Grey Lynn.
(To be precise, it was me, the Jefferies brothers and Chris Matthews, which wasn't as intense as it might sound, although I sometimes thought Peter and Graeme regarded me as a slightly wayward influence on Chris. They completed A Beard of Bees during the time we all lived there. I remember the brothers coming back from mastering it in Wellington, where a kindly engineer pointed out to them that the recording was out of phase and helped them fix it up. )
So I had a chat to Amanda. All I knew was that Peter was back in Taranaki and wasn't making music any more, but I put the call out on Twitter and Simon Woods, then at Amplifier, replied. He had an email address for Peter, which I passed on to Amanda and they got together.
Quite apart from the music, it's going to be great just to see Peter again after all this time.
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Access: What looks good to me, in reply to Chelle Hope,
It’s interesting, the more I write about disability, the more I find that those without disabilities or those with disabilities completely different to mine can relate. I like that about sharing my experiences.
Its a really cool thing.
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Hard News: Media Take: Afghanistan,…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Gah! that's what I *meant* to say!