Posts by Richard Wain
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God I love Sivivatu. Not just for his deceptive running, which must be the best in the world - any arguments? - more coz he thinks he's a forward half the time: he pops up in the middle of the field to dive into a ruck he's really got no business being in, or carries the ball in a pick and go. Just the work rate.
I wish NZ had played South Africa up north, they woulda spanked 'em. Bit late I know for the ol' Tri Nations, but man I hate the Boks' boring but deadly effective gameplan. IIRC I THINK I saw them construct a try in the Lions series... first one for a few years if I did. I was probably hallucinating... Oh that's right, it was that one-off TN game when they spanked the Wallabies in Aussie. Now THAT was out of character.
And: Cory Jane. Wing or fullback? Muliaina stepped up coz he sure has to...
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I guess my confusion over this is: how come anyone still cares about people who don't have Sky watching any sport?
Face it: Sky owns ALL the sport here, apart from some minor, minor motorsport, some of the netball and delayed NZ basketball (Breakers being live only on the Te Reo channel, in a massive case of dropping the ball from the otherwise excellent MTS).
So why all the fuss? Bit late really surely...
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To fast forward ads easily with MySky: 4 minutes in primetime, maybe 3 minutes other times. It's always 4 minutes in primetime, all channels. Those are looooooong adbreaks. Nice to think they may be doomed, hopefully we'll still get the programmes, teehee.
Now is it possible to simply output from a Freeview/MySky setup into a PVR/DVR whatever to burn programmes? Perhaps route the signal via your recorder then into the TV?
Takeaway surely can't be stopped! And one shouldn't have to be a geek to do so... who cares what happens to the programme once it airs, that's the whole point of our digital universe surely? Graze at will, however, whenever.
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at that moment I might not have admitted to being from Christchurch if asked
I wouldn't admit that at any time if I were you... ;-)
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accompanied by a foie gras mousse
Was it gavage-based foie gras David? That's what Wiki tells me is the force-fed style... Did you check?
I'm not a food nazi by any means but that stuff makes me sick. Hope they do it the other way where you were.
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Grant Smithies is the best music writer in the country I reckon. And not just because he likes what I like, hates what I hate, and is a mate :)
My vote's with Duncan Greive, always interesting and as someone who's worked closely with the man recently, his work rate is also phenomenal. Plus he can write nobly about sport too at his Deadball site.
And as you said, the Real Groove site is awesome (I'm paraphrasing - but god knows how Duncs finds the time to do that as well, with a fulltime writing staff of, well, one...)
Paint me jealous!
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None of you are kidding about this 3D thing right?
WTF?
Cannot see the appeal. You all need to get out more... life is actually 3D you know.
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John Roughan doesn't do politics, but a column that spins like an out of control merry-go-round between insightful and dumb as a bag of rubber hammers.
Yeah I realised today it's John Armstrong I meant. Too many Johns!
Though Roughan's one of those commentators I occasionally find myself agreeing with - far more than that cyclist hater Rudman. He just pees me off...
So when did you make a living as a media junkie Craig? Honest interest ;-)
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Donna Chisholm and Simon Wilson in Metro. I'm far keener on all of them than any old columnist.
Hey, you said weekly. Which I'll conclude includes dailies... and I should add John Roughan and Colin Espiner for politics in their dailies.
most of the articles contained very little that wasn't in the media release or involved more than one or two phone interviews
That's the problem, takes too much work and staff have all been slashed... the commercial newspaper model, revenue's too low for the shareholders.
Though, having said that, The Dom(Post), The Press and, oh heck, all of them really, have been shite for ages.
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Now I AM enjoying this, so...
there's fine work in the NZ print media every week
I agree but not perhaps as wholeheartedly as Russell... I dig Braunias's column in the back of the SST's Sunday (and not much else in the paper, but enjoy getting annoyed at the columnists)... Steve Kilgallon's awesome in the sport pages there...
What else?
I'm scratching my head for weekly brilliance (monthly's a different story)... Drinnan's column in the Friday Biz thing in the Granny... er... umm... some of the features in the various rags, but far too few (Alan Perrott's good for example, far better than most of the dross that ends up in Canvas).
Anyone else?