Daily review 03/01/2022

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Date published: 5:30 pm, January 3rd, 2022 - 3 comments

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Open mike 03/01/2022

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Date published: 7:26 am, January 3rd, 2022 - 101 comments

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Maintenance time

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Date published: 11:51 am, January 2nd, 2022 - 15 comments

Luna in the sun

The Standard server is going down for a few hours later today for maintenance. Some of the drives in the archive array are getting old. The SSDs in The Standard array are showing wear. Needs a good vacuum – for which I mostly blame the cat….

Open mike 02/01/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 2nd, 2022 - 74 comments

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New Year. Good News.

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Date published: 5:43 pm, January 1st, 2022 - 92 comments

This one goes out to all those good people running round like their hair’s on fire.

Hope Punk 2022

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Date published: 12:35 pm, January 1st, 2022 - 11 comments

Here’s a kind of map to a future where things work out.

A few random predictions for 2022

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Date published: 11:30 am, January 1st, 2022 - 117 comments

A few random predictions for 2022.

Open mike 01/01/2022

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Date published: 6:00 am, January 1st, 2022 - 140 comments

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Daily review 31/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 31st, 2021 - 9 comments

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Open mike 31/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 31st, 2021 - 183 comments

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Daily review 30/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 30th, 2021 - 56 comments

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Let’s punch for peace

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Date published: 4:28 pm, December 30th, 2021 - 34 comments

Today’s Herald editorial says New Zealand ‘wisely’ doesn’t punch above its weight in  military activities. That’s not true – I remember sailing around the nuclear-powered USS Truxtun as it entered harbour in a Wellington gale. It was just one of many flotillas campaigning against nuclear weapons and nuclear war that resulted in a knockout – New Zealand’s suspension from the ANZUS alliance on a point of principle.

New Zealand 2 Covid 0 so far …

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Date published: 8:36 am, December 30th, 2021 - 280 comments

But Omicron may be loose.

Open mike 30/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 30th, 2021 - 73 comments

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Daily review 29/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 29th, 2021 - 97 comments

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On the death of Joan Didion

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Date published: 6:58 am, December 29th, 2021 - 5 comments

We need to remember Joan Didion, who died December 23rd, as perhaps the best defensive pessimist we’ve ever had. She nailed the feet of her times down to the floor to make sure it talked and wept all its pain out. It’s not enough to call Joan Didion just a pessimist, because she wrote hard […]

Open mike 29/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 29th, 2021 - 116 comments

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Daily review 28/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 28th, 2021 - 5 comments

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What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners …

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Date published: 10:00 am, December 28th, 2021 - 2 comments

What Starts off in Support of Alabama’s Miners turns into a homily from Beau on the power of getting community change going when and only when you have the organisational power to pull it off month after month after month.

The Standard’s 2021 political awards

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Date published: 7:34 am, December 28th, 2021 - 68 comments

It is that time of year where nostalgia kicks in and the desire to review current events dims.  So much has happened this year.  It has truly been twelve months of the praiseworthy and the absolutely pitiful. And it is time to reflect on the personalities who made us smile, made us frown and made us raise our eyebrows to breaking point.

Open mike 28/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 28th, 2021 - 84 comments

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Daily review 27/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 27th, 2021 - 21 comments

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Open mike 27/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 27th, 2021 - 116 comments

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Open mike 26/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 26th, 2021 - 22 comments

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Die Hard is a Christmas movie

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Date published: 8:09 am, December 25th, 2021 - 33 comments

Here at the Standard we choose to debate the important issues of the day.  What needs to be done about climate change, how the Country’s covid response is going (remarkably well and don’t believe the naysayers), and which National faction is leaking and undermining which leader.  But there is one debate that is currently raging that has until now not been addressed …

Open mike 25/12/2021

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Date published: 6:01 am, December 25th, 2021 - 33 comments

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Daily review 24/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 8 comments

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The pandemic is resiliency training

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Date published: 12:17 pm, December 24th, 2021 - 12 comments

Fear and loathing on both sides of the fence, or adaptation and resiliency? We do have some choices.

Open mike 24/12/2021

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Date published: 6:00 am, December 24th, 2021 - 68 comments

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Daily review 23/12/2021

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Date published: 5:30 pm, December 23rd, 2021 - 34 comments

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Our Energy Upheaval

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Date published: 7:39 am, December 23rd, 2021 - 79 comments

Ministers Wood, Shaw and Parker (Energy, Climate Change, and RMA reform respectively), must pull their eyes downward from the misty clouds of climate change and stuff multiple decades away and down into the jagged, shadowy deal-by-deal path of the transition to clean energy.

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