Posts by Robyn Gallagher
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(It’s 3:42. I wonder what Turkish Delight is called in Turkey?)
Wikipedia sez it's called lokum or loukoum.
There is a guy in Parnell who walks his dog up my street every day. The dog is always wearing a dress, though not always the same one. WTF?
Please, some of us are at work! This is no place to discuss doggy style!
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This is the second post David's made that doubles as an effective form of birth control. (This is the other one)
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Why do they do it?
Can words be copyrighted?
It's not about copyright. It's a trademark issue.
You can't trademark a dictionary word. If I want to trademark my product called Heater, I couldn't. But if I fleshed it out into several words (__Robyn's Nice Heater__) or made it a non-dictionary word (__Heatr__), I could trademark that.
Xtra and Woosh aren't dictionary words. Unlike Extra and Whoosh, no one else is using them. So Xtra gets to just be Xtra and not Extra Internet Services (for example).
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Ooh, one of my Twitter friends has just provocatively posted the names of the two murder accused in his Twitter feed!
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I picked up "Still" from Slow Boat on the weekend. I love it! I'm amazed at how Marcus and Helen's vocals can go from being sweet to menacing, often in the same song.
I consider myself lucky to have seen the LEDs live twice this year (another bonus of living in Wellington). But I hope they make it up to Auckland soon.
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Lovely!
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Am I the only one round here who used Internet in the 'eighties?
I used Pacnet in the late '80s. I don't remember much about it though. I do remember being able to access the vehicle registration database thing back then, and looking up the license plates of the cars driven by kids at my school.
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I was thinking back, trying to remember what my "wow" moment was when I thought, "Hey! This interweb this is amazing!!!!" But I couldn't think of such a moment.
Then I realised - the internet has never been an amazing new technological innovation for me. As soon as I first got online, it just seemed ordinary.
And that's why it's become such a big part of my life.
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Woman's Day and possibly others had the same document in hand when the story broke.
I remember seeing in the Herald on Sunday, the day before the Monday the story broke, a blind item in the gossip pages about a celebrity who'd paid off an ex-lover he'd assaulted.
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I had a look at this page about Connecting the Clouds. It has a (non-exhaustive) list of 191 people who appear in the book. Only 17 of those names are women, and six of those are politicians.
I know the internet industry is typically male-dominated, and back in the day it was even more male-dominated than it is now, but it was never that male-dominated.
WTF.