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Public Address 04/03/08 - Laying Down the Law
Tuesday, 4 March 2008, 12:17 am | Public Address
The Herald leader column has issued its instructions this morning on the forming of coalitions, in an editorial headed Voters clear on coalition preferences. Look, it says, more than 90% of New Zealand First voters in its latest Digipoll survey ... More >>
Public Address 03/03/08 - Sing Like You're Winning
Monday, 3 March 2008, 11:43 am | Public Address
It was a little over a week ago that Dame Kiri made her ungracious, arrogant and not entirely unexpected comments about Hayley Westenra and others she considered "fake singers". I thought I'd wait to see how it played out. More >>
Public Address 29/2/08 - Don't Call It A Consensus
Friday, 29 February 2008, 2:06 pm | Public Address
Just to spoil your enjoyment of the congenial weather hereabouts, Joseph Romm has an excellent column on Salon this week in which he wishes people would stop talking about a "consensus" on global warming, and also stop saying "the science is settled". More >>
Public Address 28/02/08 - Fun With Wikipedia
Thursday, 28 February 2008, 12:46 am | Public Address
The Standard is in its usual high state of excitement after discovering, via Wikipedia Scanner, that Bill English's Wikipedia entry was edited last year, by someone on a Parliamentary IP address, to remove information about the deputy Opposition leader ... More >>
Public Address 27/2/08 - Drugs Don't (Always) Work
Wednesday, 27 February 2008, 10:32 am | Public Address
The dynamics of news are often unkind to a measured assessment of what is actually being reported. So it might help to know that the study on the effectiveness of SSRI-type anti-depressants that leads the Herald this morning is not... More >>
Public Address 26/02/08 - Not Like They Used To
Tuesday, 26 February 2008, 3:30 pm | Public Address
Netscape the browser is finally dead. End of line. Not that it makes any real difference -- visits with all versions of Netscape amounted to 0.3% of accesses on Public Address this month -- but the news did cause me to reminisce. More >>
Public Address 25/02/08 - What People Want To Hear
Monday, 25 February 2008, 12:57 am | Public Address
This morning Michael Cullen's office emailed out this clipping from the Northern Advocate newspaper, whose sister paper originally quoted John Key as saying "we would love to see wages drop" in response to a question from the local business association. More >>
Public Address 22/02/08 - Networking, Back Seat
Friday, 22 February 2008, 2:22 pm | Public Address
Even before the kookaburra, Leo and I agreed it was the best trip to the Zoo ever. We'd taken the left-hand option to the Kiwi House on entry. Quite often you can go in there and not see a damn thing. More >>
Public Address 21/02/08 - Fear Factor
Thursday, 21 February 2008, 1:43 pm | Public Address
Fear Factor | Feb 20, 2008 13:15 Damian Christie - Cracker With Attitude The sun was beating down in Paraparaumu on Monday, as we stood around waiting for the wreckage of a Cessna to be removed from a quiet cul-de-sac. You've probably all seen the photos ... More >>
Public Address 20/02/08 - Rarely Ends Well
Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 10:27 am | Public Address
A thing that rarely ends well | Feb 20, 2008 07:46 Russell Brown's Hard News Ideally, in TV news bulletins, adjectives should be used sparingly, to bring certain things alive for the viewer, to describe what cannot be shown. But last night One News had ... More >>
Public Address 19/02/08 - Children Come First
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:33 am | Public Address
Recreations | Feb 19, 2008 09:30 Russell Brown's Hard News I had a disorientating feeling on Saturday evening: I was watching a game of rugby, from Eden Park's ASB Stand, and it occurred to me that I didn't know the rules. I can't recall the last ... More >>
Public Address 15/02/08 - Wellington, You Win
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:24 am | Public Address
Wellington, you win | Feb 15, 2008 12:04 Russell Brown's Hard News Okay Wellington, you win. You're lovely. The Phoenix Foundation's free show last night in Frank Kitts Park was a happening and a half, and debriefing over a whisky at the Hawthorn Lounge ... More >>
Public Address 14/02/08 - Time With The Family
Tuesday, 19 February 2008, 10:21 am | Public Address
More time with the family | Feb 14, 2008 07:41 David Slack on his own account Could Katherine Rich be the first politician in a generation to actually mean it when she says she's quitting politics to spend more time with her family? As soon as I say ... More >>
Public Address 13/02/08 - Crazy Like Datura
Wednesday, 13 February 2008, 11:30 am | Public Address
Simon Grigg has two thoughtful blog posts ruminating on his recent visit home to Auckland. One on the state of some people: "It's terrifying. At every turn you find people, often old friends, at each other, and others staggering from drama to drama. More >>
Public Address 11/02/08 - Media 7
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 10:35 am | Public Address
I have a TV show. It's called Media 7 and it will launch on TVNZ 7, the new digital channel, in April. Finally, I am allowed to tell you this. I have the official groovy-things-to-say-about-TVNZ-7 cheat-sheet and everything. The show has its roots nearly a year back. More >>
Public Address 08/02/08 - There's Always One
Friday, 8 February 2008, 12:21 am | Public Address
One of the small joys of taking regional Link flights (and there are few enough) is that no one seems to think it worthwhile to run a security screen: so, no queueing, no fetching your laptop out of your bag and no worrying about your scissors. More >>
Public Address 06/02/08 - Waitangi Day Slacker
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 11:28 am | Public Address
Can I confess to being a Waitangi Day slacker? I'm glad the ceremonies up north went off without major incident, but I felt nothing much about the day. I feel tired of it. It's fortunate that others have more energy. More >>
Public Address 05/02/08 - Another Big Day
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 12:54 am | Public Address
Is it wrong for me to be looking forward to Super Tuesday a lot more than Waitangi Day? At Waitangi, Tame Iti will present himself as a hero while he still can, John Key will get good, soft press. More >>
Public Address 04/02/08 - Post Foo
Monday, 4 February 2008, 4:13 pm | Public Address
If I got asked this once, I got asked it a dozen times: How do you think Kiwi Foo Camp 08 differed from last year's? Answer: more plots hatched, more plans made. The ability to cut through hierarchies and talk off the record lends itself to this. More >>
Public Address 01/02/08 - Onwards!
Monday, 4 February 2008, 11:27 am | Public Address
I Adore A Good Misunderstanding. Happily, A Feature Of New Zealand Dialect Known As The Near-square Diphthong Merger Provides Endless Scope For Confusion And Entertainment. This Diphthong Merger Affects Only Some New Zealanders, And Means That They Pronounce ... More >>
