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Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:47 am, March 15th, 2010 - 4 comments
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Tags:My absence this weekend from moderation and posts has partially been because of going to the excellent Fabian seminar today. However it has largely been due to trying to get a workable search system running. One that didn’t bring the whole server crashing around my ears every few months and cut the issue of everyone having to stop receiving data for up to a minute when someone used search. One that allowed comments to be accessed as easily as posts.
It looks like it is finally working correctly, but I’d like feedback on any errors that show up.
Updated: Several different server and site updates.
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- Govt in the dark on infrastructure threats
The Government hopes its new procurement and planning agency will help it navigate its way out of the infrastructure hole, Thomas Coughlan reports. Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones told yesterday's Building Nations Symposium that when the Government took office, it discovered ...6 hours ago - Leilani Momoisea and Katherine Lowe on racism, feminism and the fashion industry
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- Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 17 2018
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- How Trickle tracks your beer down to every last drop
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The week’s bestselling books at the Unity stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington. Throughout are images from Tatau: A Cultural History of Samoan Tattooing, reproduced with permission.AUCKLAND1 Warlight: A Novel by Michael Ondaatje (Jonathan Cape, $35)The blockbuster novel of 2018.2 Coming To It: ...1 day ago - Raising the Bar
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As a toddler, Nida Fiazi escaped Afghanistan with her mother in a quest for survival. Instead they ended up in a detention camp in Nauru. Thalia Kehoe Rowden tells their story.Content note: This is a distressing story of seeking asylum ...1 day ago - ‘Staggering’ drop in PNG’s resource sector revenue hits development
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A lot has changed for Tom Scott in the past four years and, with his new project Avantdale Bowling Club, he’s ready to reveal all. He talks to Hussein Moses about fame, infamy and coming home to Avondale. In a ...1 day ago - Kraft peanut butter v Bega peanut butter: A Spinoff taste test for the ages
Kraft is introducing a new peanut butter to compete with Bega peanut butter, which due to some business stuff is now producing the original-recipe Kraft peanut butter. Peanut butter nutter Hayden Donnell smuggled some of the new spread into the ...1 day ago - Good Week, Bad Week: 17 August 2018The Spinoff’s editor Toby Manhire is back to review the last seven days in New Zealand news. Who’s popping open a cold one in celebration of a job well done, and who’s drinking hard spirits straight from the bottle to ...1 day ago
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- The Bulletin: Hey big spenders
Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: MP expenses have been revealed – and they’re up, National hints towards RMA change bill, and protesters dressed as cows attempt accountant office invasion. MP travel expenses have been released. Here’s a full list, ...1 day ago - Liam Hehir: More is more for MP numbers
At his party's recent conference, ACT leader David Seymour made the case for reducing the size of Parliament. But smaller government doesn't always equal small government, Liam Hehir writes, arguing that doubling the number of MPs could be a better ...1 day ago - MediaRoom: The price of premium Herald journalism
In this week's MediaRoom column, Tim Murphy looks at what premium New Zealand Herald content might cost with a new paywall, the write-down of Stuff Ltd by its owner and another experienced journalist heading to PR. COMMENT: In February, New Zealand ...1 day ago - Aretha Franklin was more than just the Queen of SoulAretha Franklin has died. Sam Brooks remembers the Queen.She wasn’t just the Queen of Soul. Hell, if you applied the label, Queen of R&B to her, you wouldn’t be wrong there either. Queen of Gospel? Sure. Queen of Pop? Of ...1 day ago
- Minister for Crown/Māori Relations still without job descriptionTen months after the government named Kelvin Davis for the role of Minister for Crown/Māori Relations, it is still unclear what his job is. ...1 day ago
- Black Ferns determined to defend unbeaten record
The Black Ferns have never lost to Australia's Wallaroos. They'll be calling on five debutants, including Southland's teenaged prodigy Alena Saili, to defend that record on Saturday night. Steve Deane reports. There’s an unmissable rolling of the rrrs when Alena Saili ...1 day ago - PM on Māori relations: ‘I think our relationships are strong’Ten months after the government named Kelvin Davis the minister for Crown/Māori relations, it is still unclear what his job is. ...1 day ago
- Forcing builders into risky contracts: ‘How crazy is that?’The Government is ordering all of its ministries and agencies to stop adopting tactics that force builders into risky contracts. ...1 day ago
- The Bridges leak inquiry is a huge deal, for the leaker and for the pressThe states are high after Trevor Mallard’s announcement of an inquiry into how the opposition leader’s travel costs became public, writes Jane Patterson for RNZIf a National Party MP is named as the source of the leak of Simon Bridges’ travel ...1 day ago
- Nuclear free and independent Pacific – how the zone began 33 years ago and what now?Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – [embedded content] From Pacific Media Watch RADIO 531pi Breakfast Talanoa host Ma’a Brian Sagala has talked about the Rarotonga Treaty with Café Pacific publisher David Robie. It was hugely significant ...2 days ago
- Indonesian police arrest 49 in attack, vandalising of Papuan dormitory
2 days ago - Bridges leak: Stakes are high for MPs amid investigationPowerplay - If a National Party MP is named as the source of the leak of Simon Bridges' travel bill their political career will come to an abrupt end. Jane Patterson takes a closer look at the inquiry situation at ...2 days ago
- The Real Pod: Chlo and Em break bad on The Block NZThe Real Pod assembles to dissect the week in New Zealand pop culture and real life, with special thanks to Nando’s.This week on The Real Pod, the team assemble over Chanui biscuits and spicy corn treats to look back at a ...2 days ago
- Nick Smith lodges complaint over NZ First’s good behaviour contractNational MP Nick Smith is lodging a complaint with Parliament over a "draconian" good behaviour contract which New Zealand First MPs are required to sign. ...2 days ago
- Why is fish-sex so hot right now? (Because apparently it is)
Mermaid expert Megan Dunn reviews horny fish-fucking novel, The Pisces, which she celebrates as “funny, profane, nasty, disturbing and taboo-breaking”.There are books that make you think and books that get you off. Melissa Broder’s first novel The Pisces does both. Never the twain shall ...2 days ago - Rating your Kiwi Childhood: Going to the local dairy with $2
Rating your Kiwi Childhood is all about looking back on your formative experiences as a little kid in the 1980s and a bigger kid in the 1990s. This week, Adam Mamo tackles the joy of going to the local dairy with ...2 days ago - Raw honesty and multi-sibyllic rhymes: Avantdale Bowling Club’s ‘Years Gone By’, reviewedThe first album by Avantdale Bowling Club, the new moniker of rapper Tom Scott, is released tomorrow. Dominic Hoey (aka Tourettes) reviews the latest work by the rapper who over a decade ago was taking his demos to Tourettes shows.Writing ...2 days ago
- Is Siri a gossip with your data? How to secure your cyber security
In the second story in a series on the future of work, Alex Braae looks at the vulnerability of our data, and the cyber security industry whose job it is to protect it. About a year ago, a Californian company started ...2 days ago - Ardern says she wants radical transformation. Time to start believing she means itThe countless working groups are a kind of stalking horse for a big change, and voters will get to decide come 2020, writes former National Party cabinet minister Wayne MappOne of the things that is notable about this government is ...2 days ago
- Māori girl: unnamed but not forgotten
Curator matauranga Māori at Te Papa, Matariki Williams, introduces the woman that watches over the Ngā Tai Whakarongorua exhibition at Te Papa, known only as Maori girl. Tēnei wahine. When I first met her, she stopped me in my tracks. I was back ...2 days ago - More ambition needed to lift productivity: Twyford
New Zealand needs to be more ambitious if it is to improve the performance of its major centres and the contribution they make to the national economy, Housing and Development Minister Phil Twyford said today. Well-functioning cities are important to ...2 days ago - Simon Bridges expense leak: what we know so farAn inquiry has been announced to find out who leaked details of National Party leader Simon Bridges' travel expenses to the media. Here's how the controversy unfolded. ...2 days ago
- You wouldn’t eat a kiwi – so why is whitebait okay?
Whitebait season is here, and Forest and Bird is steaming mad about it. Why are we serving endangered fish in home kitchens and cafes alike? And where are the catch limits? What’s all this then?Set the nets and get out your ...2 days ago - Rushed legislation on animal tracking system faces scrutinyLegislation has been rushed through to its final reading at Parliament today to beef up the country's animal tracking system, NAIT. ...2 days ago
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