I’m not really sure how to vote. I’m kinda pissed off at Labour over the extraordinarily cynical exercise of the EFA, I’m definitely pissed off at them over this whole “ISPs have to disconnect customers based solely on accusations of copyright infringement” thing (which appears to be…
So, we had some woes with Rock Band and our new LCD TV today – we tried to ROCK OUT with it, only to find that there were serious timing issues with drum fills, and as we found out later, also with the vocal tracks. The drum fills are where instead…
I wrote the following stuff on a local web forum and I have since been told I should repost it here. This is a response to a forum user that’s a fan of the Sword of Truth series of books by Terry Goodkind, and was bemoaning the shittyness of…
Everyone who just crashed their car, take a step back. Not so fast, me!…
Stuff.co.nz ran an article on the cause of the tragic death of toddler Nia Glassie. The headline was “Force killed Nia, says pathologist.” My friend peterfitz commented on it thusly .. [09:19] Anakin! Nooooooo! [09:19] The younglings! He is a Bad Bad Man. A funny man, but…
I have a meeting on Wednesday morning at the headquarters of the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. At this meeting I, in the capacity of an ISP technical rep, will be given a demonstration of the software the NZ rights holders will be using to identify infringement of copyright…
So, Russell Brand has resigned from his radio show due to feedback from voice-mail messages that he and Johnathan Ross left for Andrew Sachs, the actor who played Manuel in Fawlty Towers. That’s fairly surreal. I haven’t actually heard that show yet, but based on the descriptions of…
I’ve been talking to friends recently about how keen I am on The New Sincerity, and basically doing away (except when it’s really merited) with being only ironically in favour of stuff, and indeed also doing away with generally being sarcastic about more-or-less everything in the world. It’…