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‘Al Jaz’
I like to check out Al-Jazeera for a truly different perspective. Since I saw the superb doco Control Room I have been interested in the angle the much maligned Al-Jazeera take. As they say at the station, nothing is taboo, everything must be reported. On a trivial note, the web site doesn’t quite render in…
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Respect to Mike Moore
Yep. Gotta hand it to the man. If you care to watch the last edition of the BBC’s most excellent Question Time you’ll see what I mean. Mike, do me a favour, you’re at your best live so quit it with the crappy books already. He (Moore) excels live or at least on screen and…
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Nasty Telecom…..
Telecom NZ enjoyed being one of the most hated companies in the land for many years. With attitudes like this I’m sure they still hold the title…
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fireFTP is my new friend
I have been using an FTP client called LeechFTP. I gave it a chance but in the end concluded that it was a bit crap. Today I discovered fireFTP which is a plugin for Firefox. So far it meets all my criteria: auto reconnects! (unlike Leech) remembers the directory you were in before you were…
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Pink Floyd
Just listened to ‘Comfortably Numb’ for the first time in about 12 years. The penny finally drops; they’re singing about heroin. No flies on this one.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Just saw ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’. Super. It made me want to smoke dirty cigarettes though. Best scene: the one with RZA and GZA of course.