Posts by tim kong
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Sorry for the reply to my own post - but do make sure to click on the red and blue markers on the google maps!
Quite revealing - if a little unsettling.
I wonder if you could do the same sort of thing for NZ elections? We've just all been given postcodes... so it's a start.
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It will be interesting to see which of the Houses goes - I can see at least one of either the Senate or the House go to the Dems, and if both go - well, Bush is lame duck extra-ordinaire.
Not that it will matter - he's pretty much dead in the water as is - unless Rove and co start changing the constitution....
Speaking of sleaze and how to track the "corruptness" of the system: I found this site wonderfully enlighting - and the use of google maps is superb.
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~markane/i590/contributors.html
I don't know many zip codes - but you could always use this:
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I'm of two minds on Apple Stores.
On one hand - MagnumMac in Wellington has the single worst service of just about any store I've ever walked into my life.
Their response when I took my G3 powerbook in - it had some intermittent flickering on the screen - was "Just buy a new one. Not even worth repairing".
Customer and service is a non-entity - and I'm still fighting them for a credit on a box I bought that never worked.
So an Apple store that had some friendly service and actually sold Macs on basis that most of us use them - ie. they're cool, they're fun, they look good - you know - all the reasons we can sell them to our mates and mums - that would be excellent.
An Apple store like the one on Regent Street in London - which I'm guessing is the model for most of the Apple stores about the globe - that I'm not so keen on.
It was the most anodyne, sterile, non-connected, non-inviting, non-engaging space i've ever been in. It was like a Comic-con, without the comics or the skantily clad manga models. Does every uber-Mac geek who carries the latest Macbook really have to dress like Steve Jobs??
On a Kiwi itunes store - it doesn't help that I don't have an iPod anyway - but yeah, until they get the DRM sorted I won't be making much use of it. mininova for TV and documentary materials do me fine.