Posts by Steve Barnes

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  • Hard News: Drugs and Sex,

    Eminently possible; but I don't care why he came 'round, just that he has. And in his next stint in government, I'm going to hold him to it.

    Which is why, possibly, our eminent Representatives don't hang around here much. It must be a bugger to always be on the record and permalinked.

    "What I meant by what I said was the opposite of what you said I meant was"
    Felipe Furloppe, 1842

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  • Speaker: About That Telescope,

    It's half a sianus at best.

    So, half an agreeable Spanish bum then?.

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    micronotsosoft?

    Thankfully Windows 7 has improve massively in this area (and many others). It really is a pleasant surprise to have 95% of hardware drivers and video codecs 'just work' on a fresh install.

    I may just get myself some of that. Didn't go within a mile of Vista and my XP system is tweaked to the point of manic instability and my hardware is crying out for a decent OS
    (tried flavors of Linux but driver availability sux).
    So, if Win 7 is as good as I have been reading then Mr Gates may get a bit of my hard earned dosh. After all, I guess the guy has to eat.
    ;-)

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    Just finished watching the Neil Young clip in all its digital niceness, good work Russ.
    Actually I watched it 3 times. Did anyone else notice the people waving water bottles around half way through?
    How un Rock 'n' Roll, water bottles, humph!
    back in the day it were lighters but we don't smoke now do we?
    Or it could have been Vodka bottles or cans of Waikato or what have ya.
    Hell in a manger if you ask me.
    What ever next?
    Jounalists writing "News" stories about each other? Naked telefone sales ladies and painted Air New Zealand CEOs?
    Hell in a handbasket I tell yers.
    TGIF as they say on bad radio.

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  • Speaker: About That Telescope,

    Demisianus

    Isn't that half a bum?

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    The safety video and the related TV ad have been very well received and drawn few complaints from anyone.

    But won't somebody think of the children, we can't have children seeing breasts and things now can we?
    ;-)

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    Exporting video is a curious business. It can be hard to strike a balance between file size and quality. I did a couple of smaller files, but they made me unhappy ...

    Did you try Divx? (or even Xvid for the linux gurus) I find that solution works well in terms of size and quality.

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    I'll raise you an Eli Lilly

    Eli Lilly the Pink?
    That is so yesterday. ;-)

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    Speaking of complaints,

    The unnamed Korean businesswoman has dropped her complaint against the former National MP.

    Te Herald

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  • Hard News: .... and the Rock 'n' Roll,

    it appears that the presence of the painted laydeez created brand dissonance for Google

    Whereas Air New Zealand seems to think its a great idea. WTF?
    I'm just counting down to the complaints.

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