Posts by Che Tibby
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@craig. fine line on causation re: moonlight and lunacy.
police reportedly step up patrols on full moons.
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Christmas and hot weather coincide with a higher average homicide rate.
in fact, it strongly relates to a higher fatality rate nationally.
everything increases, from drownings (surprise surprise) to workplace accidents. the department of labour ran a campaign a couple of years back called "summer harvest".
unfortunate name, but based on good solid evidence.
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I think DPF's tag line is "fair and balanced"
i think you'll find it's "fomenting happy mischief".
must like the NZH, apparently.
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waitaminute... did i mean "public service manager".
apologies. a long day of seeing 100 of my fellow employees sacked.
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and for the record. public address manager isn't me.
but here's an anecdote. when i started at the inland revenue (i worked there for a little over a year before the culture drove me out), i was brought into a team with a joker who'd just left-off from 3 months reading the internet at the BNZ, because they couldn't find other work for him.
money-wasting and red tape isn't strictly a public service issue.
the only really difficult thing about the job is the relationship management, whether it be with a government that wants to build the longest footpath in the world, or an overexuberant project team who wants to do some "sexy" and "fun" with public money (when in fact they should just get on with the thankless and boring job they've signed up to, and shut the fuck up).
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indeed, 4 weeks old tomorrow.
i expected some kind of all-points bulletin here, but... c'est la vie.
benjamin, meaning "the son of my old age". seemed appropriate.
</puffs cigar and talks about handsomeness of 'the boy'>
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well, i've spent the last few days cooped up with a sometimes-yelling baby.
wouldn't have it any other way.
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oh, and while keith is talking rss, is there any chance we could get the entire post sent out?
googlereader only captures the first sentence or so, and with work blocking the site, i'm not getting any reading done...
however. they do have kiwiblog. if they don't unblock paddress i'm going to *demand* they block dpf. (nothing personal to david, but we can't have double-standards).
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welcome back keith, i knew you'd be back on the wagon sooner or later.
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no worries at all.
if i had been laid off i'd be a lot more frank about things.
*really* starting old-school blogging again would be one pro of permanently leaving the public service.