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Rochelle, that was pretty good.
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, September 15th, 2008 - 78 comments
Well it turns out my niece has been having fun and done an effective google bomb on John Key. I’ve just been watching her TV3 clip when I wrote this post. Rochelle shows her experience with the media in expressing her opinion. This is something that belongs in the Tips on campaigning. I’ve had something […]
MSM columns – clueless about fact checking
Written By: - Date published: 5:33 pm, September 14th, 2008 - 30 comments
This week the election was announced and the third question to the PM (asked by Colin Espiner) was about whether The Standard possibly knew the date (Helen doesn’t tell us either). Colin thinks we’re being sensitive about the mainstream media’s attitudes to The Standard as shown in a comment he made on his own blog […]
Political Funding – Have your say (eventually).
Written By: - Date published: 12:45 am, September 8th, 2008 - 8 comments
In 1993, the then National government reluctantly implemented the MMP system by putting in the Electoral Act 1993. This was an act that had some serious flaws, some of which were fixed in the Electoral Finance Act of 2008. One of the Electoral Act’s innovations appeared to be designed to make sure that the true […]
The polls are weird
Written By: - Date published: 11:04 am, September 2nd, 2008 - 10 comments
Dave at Big News has a good post up on a vagaries of the polls. It expands on something that Idiot Savant noticed at No Right Turn in his post Priceless. I/S observed:- I don’t normally poll blog, but this I can’t resist: according to the graphic for the latest Herald digipoll, the Christian Heritage […]
Drinking Liberally Auckland: Reminder.
Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, August 27th, 2008 - 5 comments
A reminder – Drinking Liberally is on in Auckland tonight with Laila Harre as the speaker. These are always fun to listen to the speaker and you get to do some networking. WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City WHO: You and any of your left-leaning companeros WHEN: 7.30pm, Wednesday 27th August WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley […]
Policies for the wrong time (again)
Written By: - Date published: 8:40 pm, August 10th, 2008 - 40 comments
We’ve heard a lot about the ‘private’ opinions of some senior National MP’s this week. What we haven’t heard much about is the policy direction National was putting out in public during the conference. Rod Oram has a very interesting commentary on that topic in Sunday Star Times “National needs a shake-up”. Rod Oram always […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, July 23rd, 2008 - 11 comments
WHAT: Regular event for Drinking Liberally’s Auckland City chapter WHEN: 7:30pm, Wed 23 July (TONIGHT) WHERE: London Bar, corner Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland City. WHO: You and any of your friends who may be interested THIS MONTH: Mix and mingle, a great chance to meet fab new people, have a beverage or two, and […]
Geek’s View – Papers Plus
Written By: - Date published: 1:42 pm, July 5th, 2008 - 3 comments
One of the links to The Standard this week was from Reading the Maps on the topic of Playing the history card. The very long post is a interesting commentary of the differences between the various wars of the 19th century that made up New Zealand formation and well worth a read. The author rightly […]
Reminder: Drinking Liberally Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 2:36 pm, July 1st, 2008 - Comments Off on Reminder: Drinking Liberally Auckland
Remember that Drinking Liberally Auckland is having its inaugural session tomorrow with David Slack. Note it in your schedules and tell your left-leaning and green friends where the action is. In fact phone a techno-phobe friend now! WHAT Drinking Liberally Auckland WHEN 7:30pm, Wed 2 July WHERE London Bar, corner Queen and Wellesley Streets, Auckland […]
Geek’s view
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, June 28th, 2008 - 24 comments
On the odd occasion I have time to read outside of the confines of The Standard and its ever increasing brawl of entertaining comments. I noticed we don’t have a external reading list, and it is within the range of my writing skills, so here are my oddities for the slow weekends…. From quote of […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, June 25th, 2008 - 14 comments
You’re invited to the first Auckland Drinking Liberally event – 7.30pm next Wednesday night (2 July) at the London Bar with special guest speaker David Slack. Drinking Liberally brings together people from across the left-leaning wing of the political spectrum for discussion, debate and, well, drinking. The first Auckland event will take place from 7.30pm […]
WhaleOil – Technically Challenged
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, June 17th, 2008 - 109 comments
I was just checking the links to the standard and I see that Whale is being his usual self. It looks like he has finally managed to read a DNS. He has discovered that I run a server at home, and that I’m a labour party supporter. Now I’m sure I’ve mentioned this a number […]
Political Blogs Survey
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 pm, May 27th, 2008 - 2 comments
A survey on political blogs has been on a number of blogs. If you haven’t filled it out, then why not? I can’t write it more succinctly than the 100 Word Blog. So I’m not going to try. Their post is here. I’ve quoted it in full. Andrew Cushen (Ex-OUSA president?) is writing a thesis […]
Happy 1000th.
Written By: - Date published: 9:24 pm, May 22nd, 2008 - 11 comments
Well that happened fast. This is the 1001st public post on The Standard. That is assuming I get it in before the next post appears. So I thought we should have a post to celebrate the event. It has been just over 9 months in the gestation. The first post was, appropriately enough, “Get your […]
Upgrades: Hardware
Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, May 9th, 2008 - 13 comments
Upgrade is complete There will be a hardware upgrade on monday during working hours (still trying to get the time). The site will be offline for up to an hour while the system gets transferred. The upgrade should eliminate the capacity issues that have been showing every few days. I’ve limited the problem by reducing […]
Updates – gravatar/identicon
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 am, May 7th, 2008 - 33 comments
The latest tweak on the system are Gravatar/Identicons. Read about it on this site in the Gravatar menu item. Apart from the graphics, it does have a serious purpose. That is to provide some level of personal trust/authentication for those who wish to take advantage of it. This post is to provide a thread to […]
Tweaking the updates
Written By: - Date published: 3:45 am, April 30th, 2008 - 17 comments
Yesterday’s site issues were due to a combination of inadequate Expires (causing a lot more files being transmitted) and the web-crawlers grabbing the updated site. It blew out the memory. I’ve limited the simultaneous sessions to prevent that until I get more RAM. Bandwidth usage for this month is indicating this would be a wise […]
Upgrades
Written By: - Date published: 6:19 am, April 27th, 2008 - 73 comments
I upgraded the site tonight. There have been a lot of security fixes since we pushed a test site together in August 2007. It was only meant to be a trial (as I keep saying plaintively to the posters), and it sort of got away on us. This version is meant to be much more […]
Extra weight
Written By: - Date published: 10:05 pm, April 22nd, 2008 - 6 comments
A reader pointed out a set of hidden spam links that had attached themselves to the footer of the site. I’d noticed them previously and thought that I’d corrected them (see comment). But they turned up again. Turns out it was from an interesting flaw in the website, and was being inserted from outside. I’ve […]
Oops.
Written By: - Date published: 7:04 pm, April 11th, 2008 - 25 comments
There was a reboot on the server last night for some reason about 20 hours ago, and the database process failed to start. The cron job that was meant to restart the process didn’t work. It would happen on a day when I was rushing around with a dead cellphone and no net access. I’ll […]
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