Posts by Paul Campbell
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Mind you there did used to be a 'train' (really a genuine cable car, not the Wellington thing that's really just a lift tipped on its side) that went up and over and dropped people off at the bottom of the Brockville hill - here's a picture of that last cable car (that vaguely went to Brockville) on its way back to town (going 2 blocks past my home)
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to anth,
Yeah I saw this - according to the US cable the US embassy:
"Throughout the final stages of the law's (near) implementation, the Embassy continued to met with IPR stakeholders and GNZ officials to ascertain progress and encourage resolution".
Apparently the government met with the Americans but certainly didn't hold hearings around NZ to let the rest of us to have a say.
They also offered to help with drafting the replacement and propaganda:
"During this hiatus we've proposed ... to possibly help with drafting and as a public diplomacy tool to dispel public misperceptions...."
(Now I see people claiming the bill was rushed thru in urgency because this connection was about to come out ...)
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it's "last bus to Brockville" surely?
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Anyone else think that Key going on about his 'greenstone suit' sounded like he was shilling for a client?
then there's this
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Cracker: RIght On., in reply to Damian Christie,
@Paul - I think Act would always win Epsom though wouldn't they?
Actually my assumption is that Rodney's brand is so tarnished this time around that there's a good chance that they wont - and as a result the right would lose all of ACT's party votes - hence the need to bolster them up and keep those votes live in an MMP world - of course getting rid of the silly threshold would have the same effect
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Watching this go down (Brash and then Banks? not even members yet ) it seems to me that this is just a scheme on the part of the Nats to sop up what would be the wasted right wing votes if Act didn't make the MMP threshold - kind of if Labour did the same to keep the Greens alive
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I think we should put up a tui ... sputnik went around the world beeping ... about a day after we put up TUI1 we'll start getting impassioned cries of "can't you shut that bloody thing off?" proving that we really have found our place among the world's spacefaring nations
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BTW: here in Dunedin, as an outgrowth of the Makerspace, we have a small group of home workers who meet and 'work' in a cafe every Wed afternoon
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I know of people who walk to and from work (walk around the block before and after), or have a shed at the bottom of the garden to separate their lives.
I did it originally to spend time with my toddlers - I skewed my day around their schedule, went to a playground and/or a cafe with them every morning and started work when they went down to nap - it worked because my partner was working half time and would take over at about the time they woke, later on I'd be the one who drove them to preschool and later school - all this took care of 1) and 2) above most days
Now days I live on California time which skews my day the other way - I get up early, finish by lunch time, leave the house.
Certainly things were a lot easier without the distraction of the 'net
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I've worked at home several days a week since my eldest kid was born (he's 20 now) and 5+ days a week for the past 6 years.
Simple rules:
1) get dressed before noon - no you can't stay in that smelly bathrobe
2) leave home every day, if only to go work in a cafe