Twitter, Blogs and other web content make it easy to create content that becomes a monthly, weekly, daily or even more frequent record of a life being lived. But what happens to it when you die? I...
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I hate "Dancing with the Stars" but there is no point explaining why when Stephen Fry has done it better than I ever could: Bored of the dance - The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry I hate danci...
I thought Vera Drake was brilliant, even more so when I found it was largely improvised. The actors were only told about their own characters part. The main topic, illegal abortion, was kept secret to...
Am I impatient? As I write The Rich List* has been going for about ten minutes and almost nothing has happened. I find 'Who wants to be a Millionaire " equally annoying in that it takes bloody ages...
Rodney Hide (unless someone has hacked the Act Blog) on John Key. Are they really going to work together? The way Rodney puts it a Key/Clark coalition seems more feasible... John Key's Econom...
You’d think the website for an energy provider would have the current status of the network they use to provide energy. Because of our half arsed energy system Genesis are an “Energy retailer” who use...
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All I wanted to know was how much SKY Television's new HD set top box costs. That meant waiting ages, and this is with broadband so God help dialup users, for the flash based site to load. Then I h...
AutoCAD pioneer John Walker isn’t very impressed with Apple’s latest video venture. I’m not an ipod owner, nor likely to be… Apple/iTunes: Tiberius Time (Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason) Sure...
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I’m sure fortunes are spent by experts in the mind control they call “Marketing” and “Branding” but you wonder about the message they are trying to convey. Here’s what I get from watching them*:...
in New Zealand the term “Boy Racer” is associated with jerks that drive high powered road cars on public roads, badly, so I think Stuff have “stuffed up” using it in this context. Brendon Hartley is a...
Sony gave Penn Jillette a bunch of camcorders and the result is Penn Says … I miss his radio show, heard via podcast, but these gems fill some of the void. I’ve Subscribed! Introduction to Penn...
I just watched “Real Life: Healer Or Hoaxer?” on TVNZ’s TV One. It was billed as an insight into the work of spiritual healer “J ohn of God ” ( JoG ) described in the show notes as: “ a man who some c...
