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Public Address 01/05/06 - Foreigners And Freelance
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 2:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Most depressing story of the weekend: Tony Wall's Page 3 lead in the Star Times on an increase in the number of foreign citizens in our prisons. Not because of the increase - frankly, the story provides almost no context which would allow us to ... More >>
Public Address 02/05/06 - Satanic Majesties
Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 1:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In my initial contract discussions with Sarah Stuart, then of the SST, now of the Herald on Sunday, we discussed the meaning of 'no bagging the SST on my blog'. She said there was a difference between 'bagging' and 'respectfully disagreeing', which ... More >>
Public Address 28/04/06 - Backup!
Friday, 28 April 2006, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
April 3. Book deadline looms, writer finds quiet refuge in inner city apartment. Harbour views. Gym two blocks away. Ferry within six minutes walk. Very fine sushi bar on far side of Hobson Street. No deadline worries now... More >>
Public Address: The Good, The Bad And The 256k
Thursday, 27 April 2006, 1:19 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Now is a good time to upgrade your internet connection if you're not already suckling from the sweet bosom of a 3.5Mbs line. I'm not - and I'm pissed about it. I put in the order weeks ago, and Orcon tells me that "Telecom are only able to provision ... More >>
Public Address 26/04/06 - Wiki Trouble
Wednesday, 26 April 2006, 12:52 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My column in the next issue of The Listener looks at the troubles rising at Wikipedia: internal fighting, edit wars, entries that degrade over time. Brilliant idea, shame about the humans. It turns out that the Helen Clark entry is fairly troubled... http://publicaddress.net/default,3104.sm More >>
Public Address 24/4 - From The Freelance Frontline
Monday, 24 April 2006, 2:10 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It looks like Telecom has finally improved the contention rate at the troubled Mt Eden exchange - and apparently there's more bandwidth to come. My man Zach Bagnall is reporting a clear, if marginal, improvement:... More >>
Public Address 21/04/06 - No N*Dity
Friday, 21 April 2006, 12:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
No N*dity. No Violence. Unspeakable Obscenity. | Apr 21, 2006 01:43 Keith Ng: Everywhere. All the time. Usually late. More >>
Public Address 20/04/06 - Special Reports
Thursday, 20 April 2006, 1:57 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The police has finally revealed that Wan Biao was the victim of a (obviously blotched) kidnap plot. I'm not quite sure why they were keeping this back, since a post on Skykiwi.com on the 16th (Sunday) cites Consul Li of the Chinese Consulate-General ... More >>
Public Address 19/04/06 - A History Of Violence
Wednesday, 19 April 2006, 1:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Reader Andrew H directed me to this intriguing history of the car bomb, which apparently debuted in 1920, with a detonation on the corner of Wall and Broad streets, New York, targeting the J.P... More >>
Public Address 18/4 - The Tyranny Of The Motor Cam
Tuesday, 18 April 2006, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The two-hour Rolling Stones live show has turned into the home straight. First to 'Paint It Black' and then '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction', the masses on the slopes of Western Springs Stadium get to their feet and sway and clap and sing along... More >>
Public Address - Plenty More Phish In The Sea
Thursday, 13 April 2006, 12:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Mike O'Donnell, Head of Business at TradeMe, confirms that a phishing attacking is doing the rounds, but says that only around 75 TradeMe users have had their passwords stolen. Presumably a great deal more people received the email, but O'Donnell says ... More >>
Public Address 12/04/06 - Scams 'N' Junkets
Wednesday, 12 April 2006, 4:53 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
TradeMe is under attack. More precisely, a "phishing" campaign is targeting New Zealand emails in the hopes of penetrating TradeMe. Why? I don't know... I received an email entitled "TradeMe Account Security Measures" from TradeMe:... More >>
Public Address 11/04/06 - Migrant Entertainment
Tuesday, 11 April 2006, 10:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The sheer scale of incipient fascism within the Immigration Act Review discussion document has bowled me for now. Maybe it's all my friends' fault for not being entertaining enough for The Man, or entertaining too much but in their own languages... More >>
Public Address 10/4/6 - Ecstasy For Grownups
Monday, 10 April 2006, 1:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The sudden suspension of the sale of Ease by Stargate International isn't news in the same sense that, say, yesterday's ripsnorting lead in the Herald on Sunday is news, but it is worth discussing... More >>
Public Address 07/04/06 - Thanks Everyone
Sunday, 9 April 2006, 10:53 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
We won a People's Choice NetGuide Web Award last night: Best Blog. I'm really pleased. Thanks everyone, and big ups to the other finalists, Kiwiblog and IdolBlog... More >>
Public Address 06/04/06 - Read Graham
Thursday, 6 April 2006, 7:10 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's not just any day I go to Real Groovy and look for David Bowie's idiotic 1967 single The Laughing Gnome. But this is not just any day. It is the day after the night before -- and last night my book Postcards From Elsewhere won the Whitcoulls ... More >>
Public Address 05/04/06 - Not Good Enough
Wednesday, 5 April 2006, 11:54 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Some more on broadband provisioning and contention rates - because I know y'all like that stuff. A couple of reader reports on DSL entrench the impression that broadband users on regional exchanges currently get a much better deal than those in high-uptake ... More >>
Public Address 04/04/06 - Contempt
Tuesday, 4 April 2006, 11:29 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm such a wuss. I had figured that reporting around the present distribution of suppressed information in contempt of court would be highly circumspect. The bar in these matters is set very low: it can be a breach simply to provide information ... More >>
Public Address 03/04/06 - It's Grim In Mt Eden
Monday, 3 April 2006, 12:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Last week I accepted an invitation from Telecom to come in and hear their side of the story on what they're doing with the network, and particularly on the thorny issue of contention rates. I'll write it up in more detail at some point, but the ... More >>
Public Address 31/03/06 - Losing The Bird
Friday, 31 March 2006, 11:17 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So does Sky's satellite service count as critical infrastructure? Those of us tracking news of the Optus B1 bird last night were looking at a fairly extraordinary prospect: that, as NBR's site had it, the satellite "may be missing without hope of recovery." ... More >>
