Posts by Peter Darlington
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At the end of 1977 I moved, as a Black Sabbath, Led Zep & T-Rex loving 13 yr old, from deepest darkest South Westland to the sunny, sophisticated urban environs of Blenheim. Within 2 weeks of arriving there, Radio With Pictures played the Dylan Taite interview with Rotten and Vicious and that was it, my childhood ended and adolescence began during the space of 10 brain exploding minutes. Rock became worthless to me in moments and, if I'm honest, it never returned.
It's hard for me to imagine such a cultural apocalypse for my kids. The influences are so wide and current now, they just pick and choose at will. We were so cut off from anything interesting, and we knew it, but could do nothing about it. It was thrilling beyond belief to see and hear something that we knew our parents would never be able to understand.
Made getting a girlfriend fairly difficult, mind you...
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Russell Brown,
And yet, at Webstock, Foo, etc, there are a lot of people who can and do hack code, who carry a Macbook as their personal machine.
Oh yes, I was really referring to hardware hacking, i.e. overclocking, disk configurations etc...
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Sacha,
A triumph of leading with design and having faith that people will pay for a better product experience. Jobs talked about taking the time to honour the design process properly, which hardly any of Apple's competitors did.
And the market works. Apple do their thing brilliantly but there's also a big demand for cheaper commodity hardware, not so pretty but more open/modular so good for hacking, pimping and shipping on to keep up to date with changes in specs. People who like to do that don't buy Apple. The margins are much smaller but the market is huge (think Asia) so it all seems to work ok.
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If they lost Jonathan Ive as well (as hinted in the Guardian earlier this year), that would definitely be a disaster for Apple.
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I think the Italians lucked out in this draw; not only do they get to stay in sunny Nelson (craft brewing capital of New Zealand) but they also get two fairly good chances at victory. They could become the darlings of the upper South Island. The Russians can just enjoy the weather.
It's going to be fab, my first World Cup of any persuasion. I'm booked in with my kids to see the Aus-Russia match and we will stand side by side with our post-Soviet brethren and give Quade and Co the big one handed salute. Think there might be a few tries in this one as well.
Tossing up about the Italy-USA match too because, like you, I suspect it might be a cracker. And afterwards our boring little town might be filled up with a few partying foreign people. Which would be nice.
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Hard News: How I love the ladies ..., in reply to recordari,
More ladies of Reggae.
Jennifer Lara and Hortense Ellis are both tops mate. Good call. #reggae
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Esther Phillips - Home is the where the hatred is
Astonishing, heartbreaking.
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Hard News: London's Burning, in reply to Russell Brown,
He looked desperate at that stand-up in Clapham, didn't he?
Well done to those people. Calmly and clearly telling him that he'd failed.
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Heh, Snap!
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It's sad as, and while much of it does look like simple opportunistic thuggery, you can't tell me social factors haven't played their part. A prescient article in the Guardian from a couple of weeks ago: