Posts by Julian Melville
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Absolutely Craig, wtf is up with the North Shore election? You'd be forgiven for not knowing there even was an election here, there's been so little coverage of it.
I do love mayoral candidate Bob Pope's photo in the little book... he appears to be about 120 years old and is in full military uniform with a row of medals extending off the left of his chest!
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Spelling "Parliament" wrong is something of a master-stroke in the Tamaki release as well. Love those caps.
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Great! When I lived in Aussie Roy & HG's footy commentaries on Triple J made many matches a lot better. I'll be checking out Alt. Rugby for sure.
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Cheers for the Kraftwerk links! That's made my Friday.
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NatRad this morning was asking why Helen Clark had suddenly got stuck into Alexander Downer after supposedly keeping quiet for some time. Maybe the answer is at least partly that with Downer virtually guaranteed to lose his job in the upcoming Federal election, she can get away with it?
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I would have absolutely loved to see the Cure, a friend in Sydney saw them the other night and is raving and I was their at their previous NZ gig. But 120 bucks a ticket, and yes the babysitter and so on and you're starting to look at a $3-400 night out for two if you have a bite to eat. And there's very few bands I'd do that for, not even the Cure.
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do AdBlock and FlashBlock allow you to manage exclusions?
Yeah, totally. Normally the last step of the installation for AdBlock Plus is to choose a canned list of exclusions that magically kills ads all over the place, but you could just skip that step and then add your own filters.
Alternatively you can choose a general ad-blocking list and then disable the extension for those excellent sites that you wish to support with your pixel real estate.
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Imagine if there was an ad ban on Sunday newspapers
Hmm, then there might be a few less of them. Works for me. I mean, have you read a Sunday newspaper?
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An Amstrad PC was my second computer, I had a Commodore PET in late '83 (about $1300 second hand I believe) but it was fantastic.
Anyone checked out the computer exhibit at Motat? I was in there at the weekend going "owned one... used one... still got one..." :)
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Sounds like little brother would get major kicks out of Fix-It Duck by Jez Alborough - the mechanics of the story are carefully exposed so that you can see it all coming on later readings (you never notice the details first time through). Both our son and my brother's could recite the book verbatim before they were 2, it held that much fascination for them.