Posts by Thrash Cardiom
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Any possibility that the Auckland CC thing is an internal issue rather than external?
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Swine Flu....
Might have it. I'm at home at the moment with mild flu like symptoms and I had the flu shot back in May. My partner came back from Wgtn a couple of weeks and ended up in bed with it for a week. Her nephew from Wgtn, currently staying with us, is also ill.
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Christine Rankin as the head of the Families Commission? Given she is on her fourth marriage she must be perfect for the job having had so many families.
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Let's hear it for Asterisk. If it wasn't for Asterisk, I doubt whether my 17 year old stepson would be able to read. Dyslexic, possibly with Asperger's, hearing problems, speech impediments and a SPELD dropout, he found Asterisk at the age of about 10 or 11 and basically taught himself to read through them. The next thing he tackled was the first Harry Potter.
Strange boy. Right into technology, teaches himself all sorts of computer stuff including game programming (at a basic level), helps others at his school with their tech problems, has been known to find ways around 'difficulties' with the school computers, likes calculus, gets a blank look on his face when you try to get his attention from whatever he is doing (in fact, I suspect he isn't even really aware that someone is talking to him as that part of his brain hasn't had its switch flipped), has conversations aloud with the television and so on.
He's good though.
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Ron's vision of 2 and 3 chord music repeated over and over at ear blasting volume had a huge effect on music. The 70s would have been very different if The Stooges hadn't been recording their proto punk back in 1969
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I was recently driving through Canterbury. I had forgotten how dull and tedious the drive was with nothing to look at but flat farmland. When I moved to Christchurch many years ago I was shocked my first day there when I looked out the window and realised I had no idea where I was. There were no hills, no frame of reference. I was lost. In fact I used to get lost walking around Chch regularly in the first month or two there.
During this recent trip I was also struck by the number of dairy farming operations. It's very similar to Hawke's Bay. Lots of conversions going on. However, I say if you have to use huge irrigators just to keep your grass green so your cows have enough to eat so they can produce milk then you are obviously in the wrong type of farming for the area.
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I'm beginning to think I'm stupid but I cannot find a link to an RSS feed anywhere on the tv nz site. I have looked at the page that talks about feeds and it mentions RSS logos being on various pages but I go to those pages and there are no RSS logos anywhere. Mind you, this is what I get on the page that tells me how to subscribe to an RSS feed:
You will find the orange RSS logo featured across the TVNZ websites. If you want to keep up-to-date with the latest politics headlines from ONE News for example, you'll find a RSS logo next to Headlines on the ONE News Politics section.
You can subscribe to an RSS feed by:
AdvertisementTVNZ Yahoo Headlines Widget
Click here to download the free Yahoo! Widget Engine
Then
Click here to install the TVNZ Headlines Widget
That's it.
Can anyone enlighten me?
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The birds feasting on my strawberry patch just as they turn ripe are evidence of this.
A bit over a year ago during drought time I was ranting to all who would listen and some who wouldn't about bloody rabbits eating my tomatoes. I kept finding them half chewed out. One day I stepped into the middle of the patch and got a hell of a fright as a couple of starlings flew out from under my feet.
Damn things had been feeding off my tomatoes. I figured that it was an easy wet feed for them given the drought conditions at the time.
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And I'm now wondering why I bothered growing tomatoes this year.
The flavour of freshly picked tomatoes tends to be better than that of those bought from shops plus you get your choice of a much wider range. This year I'm growing beefsteaks roma, sweet 100s, and another I can't recall the name of.
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I'd be interested in some deep and searching questions being asked about the sector that provides over 20% of exports from NZ but which is going to be left out of the Fibre to 85%/90%/95% of the population.
Should rural areas really be left on the outer edges considering their contribution to the economy?