Posts by Robert Harvey
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Last Night A DJ Saved My Life is highly recommended, and Unity Book's sale got me their followup, The Record Players, which can also be recommended and contains lots of classic track lists/discographies.
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it actually wasn’t easy to go out and buy a proper Indian curry until as late as the early 1980s.
Before going on our OE in 1971 there was IIRC only one Indian restaurant in Auckland, in Wellesley St West, south side, the block between Federal and Albert Sts. Never went there myself and not until discovering that the UK had curry houses like we had chinese takeaways, and vice versa, did I eventually get to indulge in the delights of masala dosai!
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You honeybun -- you absolute champion.
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Off-topic, but Alan Rusbridger's book, 'Play It Again', can be recommended to all who are learning or who enjoy playing piano. He tackles one of Chopin's more difficult works (1st Ballade, Opus 23) at the same time as the Wikileaks, Arab Spring and NewsOfTheWorld issues were making headlines and consuming his days and nights.
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Done. I have to thank you Russell, both for informing me over the many years since I first followed your thinking on bFM's Hard News, and later through Public Address, whose raft of bloggers keeps me from becoming too much of an old fool, which would otherwise be the case. May blessings pour on you and the other bloggers.
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There's two practical problems with public key encryption: generating a high quality (i.e. very secure against attack) pair of keys, public and private; and keeping your private key safe. It is no longer possible to assume that any computer made from commercially available chips/logic has not been compromised at the hardware/firmware level; nor that the compilers used to turn the source code of the various programs used in a public key encryption system into machine code have not themselves been compromised. So how can you be sure that (a) you actually have a pair of secure keys; and (b) that your private key is secure?
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Subwoofer: A mate picked up some cheapo drivers used for adding thump to video games (the sort where you sit in a chair) and wired them under his lounge floor just under the sofa -- seriously fast and powerful bass! You could maybe do similar under the deck? You don't get notes as such, just a decent thump, but then that's the case with most cheapo subs anyways...
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The thing which tends to bug me about discussions in which religion is an element, is that people's beliefs seem somehow to have more weight, more significance, than (mere) facts. It's as though more energy is behind things that (by definition) you don't know, than behind things that just are. And the result seems to be a tendency for theological issues to be discussed as though they are more important than perceived reality, which to me is back to front. I have no problem with people having beliefs, but I do have a problem when these are treated as facts, or as more important than facts.
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Just finishing re-reading John Ralston Saul's "Doubter's Companion". His thinking seems to agree with those who suggest that Greece should default.
The particular aspect he highlights (for me) is that what is at stake is the question of sovereignty: who governs the Greek people? Their elected government (for better or worse) or foreign corporations (bankers and their investors)? And if it comes down to the foreign corporations, wouldn't this tend to alarm other European governments? Because who are the corporations responsible to?
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Concur with sentiments above. Is it me, or does the reader say in the second-to-last line, "That God was made in Palestine", and not "man"? If so, very interesting revision...