I’m putting this out there in case others have experienced something similar: is the New Zealand internet constantly down? I’ve had the same email address since 1995. Yet, this year, a noticeable number of New Zealanders have telephoned here, saying that their messages have bounced. Even one team member has said that, if she […]
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The Murdoch apology does not let us off the hook
Above is Rupert Murdoch’s apology for the actions of the News of the World, to run in the UK in the wake of the resignations of Rebekah Brooks and Les Hinton. They’re great words, and they’re straight out of the PR 101 playbook. Some might say they’re a trifle too late, as was […]
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A few more swashes for JY Pinnacle Italic
JY Pinnacle Italic will be re-released as a Pro version shortly, and above are some of the extra characters we’ve added. I know the swash k still needs work, and it will be fixed up by the time of release. Pinnacle always had a decent bunch of ligatures, but if you have the […]
I wanted to grow up and be the Dean Martin version of Matt Helm
As a child growing up in Wellington, there were a few TV series that shaped my beliefs about being grown-up in the occident. The first I’ve written about before: The Persuaders, which is in part where this blog gets its name. I’ve probably mentioned Return of the Saint elsewhere, not to mention the plethora of […]
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Has it really been 20 years? Billy T.: Te Movie débuts August
I still have a lot of the Billy T. James shows on video cassette, and I’ve avoided many of the compilations, since I just don’t feel right seeing the sketches in an order that Billy himself might not have had a say in. Silly reason, I know. However, this does feel right: a film about […]
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Why do the major parties insist on holding us back?
In 2002, I did something really stupid. I bought a brand-new, 750 Mbyte Zip drive. After all, I had had three years of use out of my 100 Mbyte one, and since 750s looked like the way of the future, I had one installed. I can still count the number of times […]
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Progress at TelstraClear; not sure if you could call it that at McAfee
While I still can’t get into TelstraClear’s support site, one tech has been responding to my feedback-form messages and following up—so I don’t have the difficulty of the telephone, where I have to start from scratch with people there. And, because Daniel Borgshammar at TelstraClear is a intelligent guy, he’s managed to get to […]
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Privacy Commissioner agrees with my 2009 thoughts: New Zealand Post breached your privacy
A Fairfax Press headline today: ‘“Large-scale breach” of privacy rules by NZ Post’. The Privacy Commissioner has found New Zealand Post breached privacy rules in a promotion in July 2009, which I thought would have been a juicy story back then. The reporters write: The 2009 survey asked participants 57 multi-choice questions, ranging from […]
A whinge about whinging
I’ve seen this lament on a few more places now: why bother having a comment box? We’ve just had someone tell us at Lucire that there is no such person as Princess Catherine. Well done. We all know that technically there is no such person, if one is referring to the wife of Prince […]
And now, another website that locks me out: TelstraClear
Apologies to Daniel at TelstraClear for getting the full story detailed below, but if I don’t recount it, I’m going to continue getting the brick wall there. Essentially, the following email says, ‘Dear TelstraClear: please let me update my own tickets.’ Right now, and certainly since January, the company won’t let me. […]
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