Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Hey: Clark's Commandos - that'd be a good name for something.
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And before all those were Clarks Commandos! With tracks shaped like wild animals & a compass inside (no shit).
Or was that somewhere else?
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Treks had the ridge down the middle, nomads had the flat top & a ridge around it from which the stitching frayed in no time at all.
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Don't you know that there's a clear bright line between "good" smacking and "bad" smacking
I'm getting tired of those who lecture us that we smack dogs to train them & it does them more good than harm.
I could post the link, but y'all know where I mean.
No-one (who is any good at it) uses smacking to train dogs anymore, positive reinforcement works as well as, if not better than punishment & I suspect the same goes for rearing kids.
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I remember getting my first 10 speed (also a healing). I'd have been about 25 :) Hitech!
Had it till last year actually, when I donated it to the salvation army.
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but I'm fairly sure (unless my memory fails me) that I got Andrew's old Raleigh 20 instead .......
I don't think I had a raleigh 20, maybe Sue did?
I had an old Healing I think, or similar, later pimped with a cheap banana seat & apehangers. The epitome of cool.
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I had lego, but I remeber that Lincoln set. Also have no idea what it was called.
We've got a dusty Humdinger set under a bed somewhere, ready for when kids visit...
What i really wanted was a Johnny 7 gun. Ah... those less enlightened times. I could've aided Napoleon & Ilya in their fight against... whatever it was they were fighting against. Commies, most likely.
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Sheesh does anybody here own a house?
Er... I'd tell my story but I fear with my real name here Alan Bollard might hunt me down personally.
But left to my own devices there is a very good chance I'd still be living in the very first house I bought in 1989, 3/4 of an acre & a little bungalow on the town belt above the old Athletic Park site. I'd be mortgage free ...sigh...
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In this case the secretary didn't seem to be dealing with it. There didn't seem to be any "it" to deal with.
And y'know, it'd probably be scurrilous for me to name that minister. so I won't.
However.
It was no surprise to me that none of Murray McCully's emails were leaked to Nicky Hagar.
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Are there people around who print off auto-respond out-of-office email messages? Do they file them or something?
Funny you should say this (but it's probably on her auto sig), but more that 15 years ago I migrated the data for a GM of one of the Parliamentary agencies from one computer to another. He had gigabytes of data because he'd saved everything since the day he started. And all of his emails requested read & delivery receipts.
Thousands & thousands of auto reply messages, and read receipts.
OTOH, I also migrated the data from all of Bolger's ministers' proprietary computers to PC Servers. A huge undertaking for some, one or two took days (this was a while ago) to transfer.
One minister's migration took a couple of hundredths of a second though. We tjhought there was a problem & reran it several times.
Then we checked the server & found that all there was stored on this hugely powerful computer, was 19 documents. All of them personal missives from the minister's PA.