Died peacefully just before 2pm on the 22 of November. Thanks Dad, I will always miss you.
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Firefox takes the lead!
OK, it’s only half way through the month and no-one much visits this site, but so far Firefox is just ahead of IE (all versions) in the browsers used stakes. And who’s the weirdo using Netscape 4.7??
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The Power of Nightmares
Check it: The Power of Nightmares by Adam Curtis. A great doco about the role of fear in modern politics, looking at neo-conservatism and radical Islamists. It challenges a range of conventional notions such as the presence of an organised terrorist network like al-Qaeda and it sheds light on the neo-conservatism.
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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 FireFox. An appeal to FireFox users who like their news lies opinion in different flavours: please visit the Aljazeera site and leave them a solid reason in form of a server log entry so they get their site working correctly in the browser of choice.
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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 this is a textbook example of his humour defusing an argument and winning people over….
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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…
