Posts by Graham Dunster
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I read somewhere that Facetime will now work on 3G as well as wifi, which will be great. I'm unclear if this will only apply to the 5 or if 4 and 4S too.
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I think it's great that someone with a profile is prepared to stand up and generate discussion on one of the many repressive government bills travelling through parliament.
In a similar vein, it would be great to see some journalistic interest in linking the calls for effective subsidisation of the Solid Energy coal mine to the wider (un)employment situation in the country. -
Just stumbled on this apposite quote from Armando Iannucci in an FT article http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/65876d80-ba0f-11e1-937b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1zif5j3MV -
Because there is no money for grands projets, he says, there is a kind of bathos in the compulsion to legislate in ever-finer detail. “It becomes very specific: instead of building 150 new schools, you say children have to be able to read to this standard, by this age. But that level of specificity requires experience. Which is what they don’t have.”
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The latest Save TVNZ7 email has just arrived, with an interesting statistic - their online petition had 36,155 signatures but their Facebook page only has 9,603 thingys (unspecified).
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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to Stephanie,
+ 1.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Russell Brown,
And here are The White Stripes with the artwork presented to them by Freemans Bay School. (If I were technical enough to upload my one minute of video I would...)
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On the subject of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing there is a great article reviewing two rather interesting books - What Money Can’t Buy by Michael Sandel and ow Much is Enough? by Robert Skidelsky & Edward Skidelsky - http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/economics/rowan-williams-archbishop-canterbury-markets-sandel-skidelsky-marx-morality-aristotle-good-life/
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Ummm... it's 11, not 10 unless the Topp Twins have been recently co-joined.
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