Posts by Alan Macdougall
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And... Optus have just announced they'll have the iPhone in Australia too - so the Vodafone deal is definitely not exclusive there... maybe there is hope for Telecom.
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With regard to the iPhone, nowhere does it say there's an *exclusive* agreement - so maybe Telecom can remain hopeful...
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It is clear that the answer to the first question is d) as this site would make clear.
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Alan, that sounds blimmin perfect!
Well yes it was.
Although they've been a bit tired today; even so, the youngest enquired as to where The Phoenix Foundation were playing tonight, as she wanted to go again...
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My work won't spring for Webstock (boo hoo) but hey - and apropos the original posting - I was pretty happy to get to last night's gig.
We took our two bairns (4 & 7), as was entirely possibly given the timing and location, and they really loved it. Such a nice introduction to live music. And the grins on their faces at the end of Bright Grey, after they sang/shouted the lyrics (with extra emphasis on ooo-ooo of course) while perched on Becky's and my shoulders, were a sight to behold.
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And if Richard MacManus links to the survey (as nominee #4 in the same category) then it's all over - not only for the other nominees in that category, but also for the Wellingtonista webservers, which will be reduced to slag heaps of melted silicon...
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Oh yes, those 3Ds gigs at the Empire were sublime.
And I'd love to see a run of David Mitchell posters for them too - I wonder if anyone still has these?
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Genius idea. I shall vote riroriro/grey warbler forthwith. It's hardly a showboat, but a shy and retiring wee grafter often imposed upon by bludgers. [Calls to mind the faulty self-image of the commenters of A Certain Other Prominent Blog, doesn't it, although in this case the grey warbler really does fit the bill.]
I've been trying to take photos of the little blighters for a while now, and it's damned hard. Difficult enough to see, let alone get the camera on them in time when you do.
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Regarding the NZDT on the Mac issue... via Rod Drury's blog there's apparently a little patch that some local Mac developers have come up with to fix the NZDT issue: here. I haven't tried it myself (yet) but hopefully it will do the job.
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Use up hours of time like this: poke the website name of your favourite organisation into a reverse DNS thingy (I use this website, but there are others).
Take the resulting IP address, and poke it into the WHOIS form at APNIC (for Asia-Pacific addresses, you see - there are others for other parts of the world) to find out who owns the range of IP addresses that the website lives in. If the owner is the same as your original target, then you are in business - put the range into the scanner, and do a wishart on the results.
So, let's take Air NZ - it's website (or one of them, anyway) is at www.airnz.co.nz which the IP lookup tells me is 162.112.18.131. APNIC tells me that this address is in the block 162.112.0.0 - 162.112.255.255 which is owned by Air New Zealand. Good. Now... put it into the scanner...
...and we find that there's nothing very interesting there. Just a Jazz fan and a Train spotter, by the looks. YMMV.