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Public Address 09/04/08 - You can't always get
Wednesday, 9 April 2008, 4:54 pm | Public Address
You can't always get what you want | Apr 09, 2008 10:53 Russell Brown's Hard News While you probably weren't looking, the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Bill passed its third reading yesterday. The late changes in a Supplementary Order Paper ... More >>
Public Address 07/04/08 - Icon Identities
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 9:26 am | Public Address
Icon Identities | Apr 07, 2008 10:04 Russell Brown's Hard News Mitchell Pham, my main man from 'Nam, sent me this collection of icons that aim to capture the different ways in which significant concepts are perceived by Asians and Europeans. They're ... More >>
Public Address 08/03/08 - Thought for Food
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 12:40 am | Public Address
The Audacity of Hype: John Key and the new National Socialism | Apr 08, 2008 07:34 A talk by Finlay Macdonald for the Distinguished Communicator Lecture Series for the Centre for Science Communication, Otago University. In case you hadn't picked ... More >>
Public Address 03/04/08 - Episode One
Friday, 4 April 2008, 2:07 pm | Public Address
Well, I think the first recording of Media7 went really well on Tuesday night, and it looked good on screen last night too. I need to loosen up in front of the autocue, but you get that. I had really hoped to bring you the video, but for now I can only ... More >>
Public Address 02/04/08 - Brownlee: 93% fact-free!
Wednesday, 2 April 2008, 10:30 am | Public Address
Brownlee: Now 93.5% fact-free! | Apr 02, 2008 03:16 Keith Ng has waited four years to use that headline It was a bracing kind of meeting, and I should've ordered something harder than orange juice. I wanted – needed – to hear it, to get that bucket ... More >>
Public Address 1/04/08 Ask Her Now
Tuesday, 1 April 2008, 2:51 pm | Public Address
My romantic soul couldn't resist, so, we arranged for a time and place, and there I was last night (Monday) at 7:45 pm sharp on the Passerelle Debilly. By the way, we did not even talk. All this was to remain a secret until today! - so I don't even ... More >>
Public Address 31/03/08 - Ready to Fly
Monday, 31 March 2008, 8:52 pm | Public Address
This is how busy I am: for the past two weekends I have forgotten to make my Virtual Super 14 picks. The system has instead chosen "home teams by 13 and over" for me. As a consequence, I have cascaded down the rankings. I was comfortably in the top ... More >>
Public Address 28/03/08 - New on the Street
Saturday, 29 March 2008, 1:15 pm | Public Address
My buddy Ant Timpson texted me a couple of nights ago. He was excited. Understandably so. After "four years of the worst broadband ever" up towards the end of the peninsular in Pt Chev, he'd just been the recipient of the first connection to Telecom's new ... More >>
Public Address 27/03/08 - Slumpy Cashflow
Thursday, 27 March 2008, 5:10 pm | Public Address
Slumpy Cashflow | Mar 27, 2008 09:53 Russell Brown's Hard News Yesterday's news of a slump in consumer confidence as measured by the Westpac survey drew many and varied responses from readers of the Herald website, some of which made more sense ... More >>
Public Address 26/03/08 - Electrickery
Wednesday, 26 March 2008, 6:41 pm | Public Address
Where possible, we've been watching our real-time TV via the Freeview HD decoder in the past week. The pictures are so good we can do without the benefits of a PVR. And yesterday, my darling switched on the TV in anticipation of the news. She turned ... More >>
Public Address 25/03/08 - Misquote Unquote
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 3:09 pm | Public Address
I actually laughed out loud when I read the concluding lines of the Star Times' story speculating that National might have been chivvied into bringing forward its tax cut programme: "Key appeared confused when speaking to the Star-Times about what ... More >>
Public Address 19/03/08 - Buy now!
Saturday, 22 March 2008, 12:22 am | Public Address
I laid hands yesterday on one of the Freeview HD decoders that officially arrive in the shops on April 2. The HD service is terrestrial -- you simply connect your existing aerial cable to the decoder. And it is … amazing. It helps, naturally, ... More >>
Public Address 20/03/08 - Debate like it's 2008!
Thursday, 20 March 2008, 5:36 pm | Public Address
You're in danger of people liking you a little bit more than they have lately -- so why go out of your way to look like a bully? That's just what Michael Cullen did yesterday in the House when he hauled out the old canard about Keith Locke... http://publicaddress.net/default,4871.sm More >>
Public Address 17/03/08 - A business most feral
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 5:19 pm | Public Address
I haven't commented here on the foul disputes at the Hawke's Bay District Health Board, largely because it hasn't been clear to me exactly what the hell went on there. Although I did suspect it wasn't quite the open-and-shut case that Bill Ralston recently ... More >>
Public Address 14/03/08 - Even More Southerly
Monday, 17 March 2008, 12:20 am | Public Address
Leaving the bunker | Mar 14, 2008 10:40 Russell Brown's Hard News The e-government unit at the State Services Commission has been determined over the past few years to get to grips with the internet and social media and respond appropriately. Given ... More >>
Public Address 13/03/08 - Geekstravaganza
Saturday, 15 March 2008, 11:54 am | Public Address
The unbundled broadband/voice plans announced this morning by Orcon under the Orcon@home+ brand, look pretty good -- assuming, of course, that you're connected to one of the five Auckland exchanges where Orcon has kit installed. The service is ADSL2+, meaning, ... More >>
Public Address 11/03/08 - The Universal Intercept
Wednesday, 12 March 2008, 3:39 pm | Public Address
The Universal Intercept | Mar 11, 2008 10:39 Russell Brown's Hard News Stephen Judd has spotted the mistake in the Dominion Post's headline: Crims' texts wiped. It is not "crims" texts being "wiped", it is everyone's, including ... More >>
Public Address 10/03/08 - Call it what you like
Monday, 10 March 2008, 8:53 pm | Public Address
Call it what you like | Mar 10, 2008 09:15 Russell Brown's Hard News Call it what you like, no journalist likes being made to print a "clarification" by management; least of all one that seems as unnecessary as that foisted on the Bay ... More >>
Public Address 06/03/08 - Phoning a Friend
Monday, 10 March 2008, 10:36 am | Public Address
Phoning a Friend | Mar 06, 2008 10:18 Russell Brown's Hard News The irony of the last-minute move to fence off Auckland airport is the when Labour was in its pomp, it would have been seen as awful political management. From Labour on the ropes, ... More >>
Public Address 05/03/08 - She's back!
Wednesday, 5 March 2008, 3:59 pm | Public Address
DVD Review: Learn to Play the Volkszither in the Style of the Waffen SS | Mar 04, 2008 23:23 David Haywood from Christchurch Okay, when this guy starts you think we are never going to get to play the zither here. He spends forever giving a speech ... More >>
