Posts by stephen walker

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  • Hard News: More than a little odd,

    how could telecom not know where calls on their network are originating from?

    nagano • Since Nov 2006 • 646 posts Report

  • Yellow Peril: Public meatings,

    notwithstanding Zse Ming's starter for ten...

    this once again just proves that herald journalists are lazy and herald editors are into xenophobia in a big way, which i'm sure is just fine for the paper's owners because sensational headlines sell papers. try looking at the Zaoui coverage from day 1...

    on a related topic (sensationalism), did anyone see the SST front page? i read this bullshit article and thought, "so what?"
    so the SST thinks they have performed a social service for these primary school kids? mindnumbingly f-ing stupid. journalism? not even vaguely.

    nagano • Since Nov 2006 • 646 posts Report

  • What do you want them to play at your funeral?,

    The Birthday Party?
    has to be Sonny's Burning
    (Hands up who wants to die!!!)
    Nick is a funural natural.

    nagano • Since Nov 2006 • 646 posts Report

  • The NZ Web's greatest hits (and misses),

    early good sites:

    webworkshop! (yeah, rob and lance, guilty as charged)

    CHC Press was the first nz paper i regularly visited. back in the mid-90s my hatred of the herald was visceral and their web presence was nada.

    early tvnz site (before they f-ed it up c.1999)

    aardvark

    scoop and hard news around 9/11. on a friday if i turned my mac on at work and there was no new hard news for the week i would be swearing about that lazy rb for a couple of hours ;-)

    more recently:
    frogblog leading up to the 2005 election. sooo good, which is why i have now had it with the current incarnation of frogblog. lame. lazy. waste of time. treats its users with contempt. some nice people used to comment, most of them have left the room.

    norightturn is great. but i/s, will you ever move to a better platform? blogger sucks. and it's a pity there is only a handful of interesting regular commenters.
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    brickbats:
    - stuff.co.nz? gees, has it improved? I've always found it appalling to navigate.
    - radio nz until a couple of years ago. what a disaster.

    nagano • Since Nov 2006 • 646 posts Report

  • What do you want them to play at your funeral?,

    a meddley of Joy Division, of course!

    - New Dawn Fades
    - Transmission
    - Love Will Tear Us Apart
    - Atmosphere

    and to finish, because it's got the best lyrics of any song I've ever heard:

    - Twenty Four Hours
    ("Now that I've realized, how it's all gone wrong
    Got to find some therapy, this treatment takes too long
    Deep in the heart of, where sympathy held sway
    Got to find my destiny, before it gets too late")

    nagano • Since Nov 2006 • 646 posts Report

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