Comments on: Participate in teh Golden Garth awards

By: Bright Red

Bright Red — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:35:32 +0000

I hear that they were going to get rid of Gareth but he just kept on sending them copy. Newspapers are always desperate for cheap copy.

By: Danyl Mclauchlan

Danyl Mclauchlan — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:13:24 +0000

Last night someone explained to me that Hill-Cone and McCarthy’s columns are in-jokes for them and their friends, and that the various editors at the newspaper are part of the clique and thus think they’re brilliant. That’s kind of what a lot of the blogs over at Stuff do, and I don’t mind them at all (I just don’t read them). But a column full of in-jokes for a couple dozen people seems like a strange thing to publish in a national newspaper.

By: Ag

Ag — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:15:38 +0000

You actually tell other people that you have an MBA?

I tend to think that Bob Jones was right about MBAs.

By all means get one, but don’t tell anyone.

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:05:41 +0000

So? They need to move to new forms of media. I’m more worried about where that newsprint goes to when it rots. Leave the trees in the ground.

Perhaps you’re thinking of one of the unionists who writes here?

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:04:19 +0000

My philosophy is my own – I am individual – as most of the left is as well.

That is more that I can say about many on the ‘right’ can say. Haven’t you read my posts on the behavior of pack behaviors at the sewer. But it is a funny type of conformity. They keep insisting in the same voice that they are all different

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:56:54 +0000

More like just plain useful…. Something that seems to have escaped your attention about yourself.

But I’d have to say that you have a very strange idea about who and what I am. For that matter some really strange ideas about what a ‘lefty’ is. We leave the pack mentality for the maniacs on the right.

I have to say that after what nearly 30 years Apple have finally come up with a device that is perfect. It is like a crescent spanner for sysops and programmers.

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:52:57 +0000

Yeah. Besides the other use I have for it is a dinky app that allows me to reset the site if it fails – while I’m on the bus. These things are crazy… And very useful for a sysop.

By: Marty G

Marty G — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:38:45 +0000

His writing is incredible. great comments section too

By: Daveo

Daveo — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:34:42 +0000

Being a leftie doesn’t mean being a luddite, mike. Perhaps this misunderstanding explains a lot about your virulent attacks on the left.

We on the left support technological progress, we also believe in supporting people who are displaced by that progress through an adequate welfare state with redundancy protections, unemployment assistance and opportunities for retraining and upskilling.

It’s your market purist law of the jungle we object to.

As for Noko’s purtanical lecturing about Lynn’s iPhone, get some bloody perspective mate. Consumer choices in a world of cowboy capitalism won’t solve anything. We need to change the structure that creates that exploitation and environmental damage if we want to make a difference. Lynn’s done far more on that count than you ever have. Let the man have his iPhone.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:26:50 +0000

Whatever mate? My point is as a lefty I thought he was all about protecting the battler against the ravages of corporate greed but it seems that mantra only applies if it fits with the latest trend in com-tech that makes him feel ‘smart’ and hip

By: Noko

Noko — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:03:47 +0000

Mike, I’m not a right wing fool, I’m just questioning lprent’s lifestyle which relies on the exploitation of others. With your philosophy, it’s even worse. Ad hominems are only applicable when they’re actually relevant.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:49:42 +0000

Isnt it strange that Iprent delights in the slow demise of the older hard print technology that employes thousands of blue collar workers (the majority who belong to the EPMU) while embracing the shiny iPhone that pours billions into wealthy american wallets. But isn’t he just so hip wid it..

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:55:51 +0000

Good spotting. However I suspect it was more than spelling. I wrote that last night after I’d woken at at 0230 with my head buzzing about design ideas for what I’m working on at work. The post got written whilst I had an over-active brain, was very tired, and was post-writing as a distraction between about 0300 and 0400……… I’ll give you one guess what I was thinking about.

English badly needs a compiler…

By: lyndon

lyndon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:38:16 +0000

“The political columnists are just about as bed, but better written.”

spelling always happens at the worst time, doesn’t it

By: lprent

lprent — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:25:19 +0000

No – I said that I don’t have time to find out. The decision to get an iPhone vs something else was made in about 20 minutes, most of which was spent on features and analysis of the OS.

I pick and choose what I will concentrate on, and that tends towards environmental issues.

Tell me, do you know the amount of germanium in the motherboard of your computer? Aren’t you concerned by overuse of this extremely rare metal? And you’re asking me about a replaceable resource – go and play with yourself. There is no way that everyone can know everything of concern – so you prioritize.