Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Wheel low-lifes…
Secure racks in the central city were the biggest problem I had in Christchurch
I’ve lost a couple of bikes over the years
to ‘people’ with bolt cutters, …sigh.
Wheel world solutions……back in the ’70s the PYM (Progressive Youth Movement) suggested a free white bike scheme for Christchurch (see page 54 of file /44 of book) based on one that originated with the Provos in Amsterdam – they had some great social ideas…
Wikipedia has a good overview on
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Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
There's another "excellent performance
by Don McGlashan" here:
well an excerpt anyway
- when he teamed up with Shayne Carter and Sean Donnelly to cover I don't mind for this
Toy Love Tribute albumI see burning sky records have Squeeze tribute album too..
<edit> TOTH to Simon Grigg - I learned about it on his The Opinionated Diner blog
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Beautiful, beautiful…
Copenhagen sounds great (and like Chch it too is on the east side of an island of Zealand – hell, we even have the cone …
so what yer saying is, basically, we’ll be Amsterdammed if we do
and damned (stupid) if we don’t…Though looking at the figures Copenhagen is at least about 3 or 4 times the population of Chch :
- while both are on a similar area (approx 450 sq km)
- Chch urban population approx 400,000 (no City dwellers listed)
- Copenhagen urban population approx 1,200,000
plus the city has 540.00
and that has to help when planning a big city – not to say that Chch can’t strive for a similar idea though
(as long as the powers that be realise it isn’t
a big city in the greater scheme of things!)
PS the Crowd Source Proofreader says Octogenarian -
Flense in high places...
We seem to have forgotten that the purpose of local government was to be, you know, local!
I think they follow the modern interpretation of local or Lo-Cal - they are certainly stripping the fat out of this whale-of-a-city - while someone else sups the cream, I don't doubt...
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At least old road warning signs can be
repurposed in Sydenham and the CBD...
things like;
- Dislodged Masonry Ahead
- Wandering Stock
(and cash)CERA will be installing their new signs soon, including this obvious one
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Not really getting why it isn’t front-page news.
Maybe it needs a snappy News brand :
- KY2 , Auckland shafted by Computer
- IT came from the future
- SAP ping the Supercity -
happenstance...
Schrödinger's cats perform...Not so much a segue, as a side on...
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Crowd Source Proofreading Dept
Reporting for duty as requested, Sah!
Thomas – who has previously been acsused of planning to sell the story of her fling with Giggs...also I wondered if you meant to call this post
We are all a twitter
- ie: in a state of agitation or excitement
oh, now I see it is in the "I am Spartacus" vein..Still Twitter doesn't have many positive meanings
Ie - Idle, trivial or ignorant talk
- Light tremulous sounds
derived from a Middle English word for imitative
and all the thesaurus flow-ons are of similar ilk (naturally) prattle, blather, yabber...just who was their marketing person?
still moot point now... -
Hard News: Mercury Special, in reply to Steve Parks,
Lars Out Loud
everyone loves a Trier... -
..my “what voting system should I choose” tool (chocolate fish for the person who can come up with the snappiest name)
Hmmm... MMP, FPP, PV, STV & SM...
- Don't know who to vote for?
At last no more acronymbly dithering!
Cast away with confidence on the
GE ElectroElectoralNominatoror
- Get straight to the point of order
with the Edgeler Pick Axeor there's always
Robotic assistance