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		<title>Vista was just a duo today</title>
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Due to others’ appointments, the Vista Group meeting today was a mere duo: myself and Jim Donovan, Esq., who will give up blogging in 10 days. It meant it was the second-least well attended meeting in our history. Jim has never let us forget the least well attended one.
&#160; &#160;I have always said that one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Docs doesn&#8217;t want bad news</title>
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This is a bit odd. I was asked to &#64257;ll out a survey regarding Google Docs, which I promptly did. I didn’t give it very high marks, and after clicking submit, the response was ‘You have indicated that you do not use Google Docs.’
&#160; &#160;I beg your pardon?
&#160; &#160;I indicated that I had used Google [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/google-docs-doesnt-want-bad-news/</link>
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		<title>The rise of the city brand</title>
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I don’t have the other writers’ permission to show their side of this Facebook dialogue, but we had been chatting about growing the creative clusters here in Wellington as one of my mayoral policies.
&#160; &#160;I wrote:
Mostly by focusing on growing creative clusters and taking a bigger slice of the cake. So it is not from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/the-rise-of-the-city-brand/</link>
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		<title>Toyota&#8217;s recent &#8220;30-degree&#8221; scandal in China</title>
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Sam Flemming in Advertising Age mentioned the scandal that Toyota has been embroiled in inside China, before a lot of the bad press it received in the occident over “unintended acceleration”.
&#160; &#160;This involved a netizen, an owner of a Toyota Highlander Sport, &#64257;lming that his SUV was unable to get up a 30-degree incline, something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/toyotas-recent-30-degree-scandal-in-china/</link>
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		<title>I need to listen to some Fred Dagg before I go on</title>
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To be con&#64257;rmed is an interview with the BBC, in my politician guise. I have not been on radio in the other hemisphere for something like seven years, and that time it went to some of the most way-out places (it was UN Radio). I have one reservation only: my accent goes all over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/i-need-to-listen-to-some-fred-dagg-before-i-go-on/</link>
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		<title>The Downfall of &#8216;Wellywood&#8217;</title>
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Necessity is the mother of all invention. I never thought some of the Der Untergang (Downfall) parodies could be topped, but I think this just happened.


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		<title>The &#8216;Wellywood&#8217; sign: people power gets things done</title>
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That was a very interesting 30 hours. I found out about the ‘Wellywood’ sign yesterday afternoon, through Twitter, and Tweeted to say I hated it. Little did I know then that there was a huge Facebook group—6,000 strong at the time of writing—where Wellingtonians were making their voices known.
&#160; &#160;And when I got there to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/the-wellywood-sign-people-power-gets-things-done/</link>
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		<title>A spoof &#8216;Wellywood&#8217; sign seems out of touch to me</title>
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I was interested to see a Tweet today (via Daniel Spector) asking if I would object to the erection of a ‘Wellywood’ sign in Miramar that would parody the ‘Hollywood’ one in the Hollywood Hills, Calif. The answer is: yes, I would.
&#160; &#160;For numerous reasons. First, it’s naff and tacky.
&#160; &#160;Secondly, why do we need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/a-spoof-wellywood-sign-seems-out-of-touch-to-me/</link>
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		<title>Hints of Google&#8217;s privacy misbehaviours in 2007</title>
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I did my last edits to this blog’s pages that had resided on the old Blogger service today, before decommissioning them from the service. After today (in theory, since the updating stalled twice as I wrote this), you will not be able to make any more comments on posts written before January 1, 2010.
&#160; &#160;In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/hints-of-googles-privacy-misbehaviours-in-2007/</link>
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		<title>Did I mention I dislike junk faxes?</title>
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I received yet another junk fax today, which I believe are not permitted under the Telecommunications Act. My enquiries to Telecom suggest that this is the case.
&#160; &#160;This time, it’s a well known business based in town and in the Hutt. And you know what? I’ve now made a mental note not to go there. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackyan.com/blog/2010/03/did-i-mention-i-dislike-junk-faxes/</link>
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