Posts by Robert Urquhart
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Moz,
I'm a web-dev, our whole company including reception/phones has been working from home since Monday (and preparing to work from home for the previous two weeks). I visited the office on Monday to pick up an extra monitor and am remoting to my office PC as needed for various things, but most staff ended up taking their entire computer setups home.
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Hard News: Together Alone, in reply to Moz,
@Moz - A client in admin at a significant business association told me at the beginning of the week that their (mostly closed up of course) members had already seen a significant spike in break-ins and they were working hard to help increase security for their member's premises over the pending shut down; so there's your answer. Whole high-density burglarising fields have effectively opened up :(
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Minor issue: only the Info For portion of the Info For Readers link in the footer is linked.
... I suppose I should really use their contact form to tell them that directly. -
OK I have found where to log in on the PressPatron website, but where/how the heck do I create a subscriber account?
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Just after I had gone to bed - ~10 seconds of "that's a substantial aftershock" followed by ~ 1:30 of "that's not local - that /has/ to be a major event inland" followed by the usual string of Geonet checks and FB check ins. Then slept though the tsunami warnings that followed but have friends who evacuated and have not yet returned. Grimacing at the photos of road damage this morning.
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Another stray thought: given current government methods of accounting W&I probably gets to claim all those debts as being a positive on the “asset” side of the ledger. Regardless of the (practically zero) likelihood they will ever be substantially repaid.
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Something my parents asked me at the weekend which I did not have an answer for and have not had much time to research - suppose you /have/ more rooms than you need (eg empty nest) and you want to make those available to help people who need short term assistance - who do you talk to? Is there any organisation or service which serves as a communication hub for such things? Who are the relevant charities/organisations?
I'm pretty sure HNZ / W&I will not have a bar of talking to / managing individual offers, they will only want to outsource that administration to "approved providers".
Any pointers?
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As another who is only in the comfortable position I am due to positive fortune, I like to take as one of my guiding principles a slight modification of another well-know saying: “Be the luck you want to see in the world”.
Life is absolutely not “fair”, the very concept is a personification, but it is within our power to make living more so.
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This also seems the appropriate thread to share my photos from the We've Had Enough rally on Sunday.
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I have posted my thoughts from the day (somewhat inspired and informed by Emma) in my journal.
http://marsden-online.dreamwidth.org/969722.html