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A heartwarming tale from Christchurch

by Blondie September 5, 2010

I was really touched to read in this morning’s Her­ald about an indian  Christchurch dairy owner who showed true com­mu­nity spirit and con­cern for his fel­low cit­i­zens in the wake of the earth­quake. Mr Suresh Patel has appar­ently run his Hoon Hay dairy for 21 years – and yes­ter­day morn­ing was giv­ing away essen­tials like […]

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Proposed Changes to Child Support

by Blondie September 2, 2010

I’ve been read­ing the dis­cus­sion doc­u­ment for the pro­posed changes to the child sup­port regime.   It took me for­ever to find the thing – god knows I spend far too much time on the IRD web­site as it is, so I hon­estly thought I knew my way around the site.   Appar­ently not.  Any­how, I found […]

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Barry Colman shows some spine, Veuve Clicquot still cheapstakes

by Whaleoil August 26, 2010

So Barry Col­man has returned from his hol­i­day to find his flag­ship brand has been assaulted and vio­lated by his inept staff and con­sci­en­tious, dili­gent, vicious blog­gers hold­ing them to account. He, note he…because as NBR have announced: The National Busi­ness Review unre­servedly apol­o­gises for the con­fu­sion sur­round­ing our 40th birth­day com­pe­ti­tion. It was never […]

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Monday Mullets — Richard Dean Anderson

by Whaleoil August 23, 2010

Per­haps the most famous mul­let ever. That of Richard Dean Ander­son and his char­ac­ter McGyver. Awe­some mul­let and stalked by Patti and Selma Bou­vier. Related Posts:Mon­day Mul­let – Phil Rennie

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Some Billboard Ideas

by Whaleoil August 22, 2010

Here are some bill­board ideas. All sug­ges­tions are wel­come. Related Posts:Min­i­mum Main Road SpeedsMy Pub­lic Trans­port policyHer­ald on AlbanyAn­drew Williams starts his cam­paign with a lieThe fight against Pee

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Reminder: Seven days to go to court

by Whaleoil August 18, 2010

I am back with my lawyer today rack­ing up the charges prepar­ing for the 25th. Ok it is time for all those out there who sup­port my stance on name sup­pres­sion to assist with the legal bills. I appre­ci­ate the months of loyal sup­port as I await the slow wheels of our Jus­tice sys­tem to turn. […]

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Music is medicine, music is sanity

by Whaleoil August 9, 2010

A fol­low up for read­ers on my post yes­ter­day about “poi­son pills“. I men­tioned how I found music use­ful in com­bat­ing my depres­sion. My psy­chol­o­gist read the arti­cle and pointed me at this TED speech by Robert Gupta about his expe­ri­ence work­ing with Nathaniel Anthony Ayers and how music helped with his men­tal ill­ness. Related […]

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Mildly interesting stuff

by Whaleoil July 29, 2010

Damien Christie is more than a lit­tle pissed off with Apple The Man­grove still has firm roots in Napier, much to the relief of hus­bands nation­wide. Set­tled sci­ence: Can every­place really be warm­ing much faster than every­place else? Doesn’t look like the Arc­tic is going to be ice-free this year. Blair Mul­hol­land should get divorced more often. The piss […]

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Antenna-Aid

by Whaleoil July 21, 2010

Apple has bud­geted mil­lions for the pro­vi­sion of bumpers for their rooted iPhone 4.0 antenna design. The prod­uct is essen­tially unfit for its intended pur­pose unless the atten­u­a­tion is sorted. Now another com­pany is cash­ing in on the poor antenna design. On Fri­day, Steve Jobs announced that part of Apple’s response to the whole iPhone […]

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Things that annoy me

by Whaleoil July 20, 2010

It’s a long list but these are some of things that annoy me right now: peo­ple who use the word peeps to describe peo­ple social­ists politi­cians who stand for noth­ing and use weasel words like prag­ma­tism when they really mean “too hard”. weasels, with or with­out mus­taches blond spin-muppets (get­ting close to my shit list) social­ists Fidelity Life […]

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Don’t hassle the Ginga in the Ambulance

by Whaleoil July 20, 2010

I’ve heard of going postal but this ginga was a para­medic….is that going ambo? SUSPENDED Syd­ney para­medic Trent Speer­ing fumed that the NSW Ambu­lance Ser­vice was run by “degen­er­ates” and was big­oted towards red­heads before shoot­ing dead his elderly mother and him­self, a court has been told. On June 11, 2008, the 40-year-old vis­ited his 70-year-old […]

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Peter Goodfellow and the Candidates College

by Whaleoil July 5, 2010

On the week­end CNI held a regional meet­ing includ­ing elec­torate chairs. Peter Good­fel­low turned up and stole an hour of the atten­dees time, bored them wit­less and sat down to com­plete and utter silence. He couldn’t catch the clap from a hooker let alone an audi­ence. At the meet­ing he banged on about a lot […]

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Everything you wanted to know about Boogers

by Whaleoil June 28, 2010

Per­fect, it even includes a pic­ture of a whale. Related Posts:No Related Posts

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Cleaning up

by Whaleoil June 23, 2010

Blog­ging light today, set­tle­ment for the house is Fri­day, so I am clean­ing out what is left. We moved every­thing on the week­end so now it is fill­ing the skip with rub­bish. Kind of sad hav­ing an empty house and know­ing that from Fri­day I will no longer own any­thing when I have owned prop­erty for […]

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About Repeaters and Churnalists

by Whaleoil June 22, 2010

via Twit­ter News net­works giv­ing a greater voice to view­ers because the social web is so pop­u­lar are like a chef on the Titanic who, see­ing the loom­ing ice­berg and flee­ing cus­tomers, fig­ures ice is the future and starts mak­ing snow cones. Related Posts:Just what is Andi try­ing to say?I’m get­ting real sick of thisPay­walls and their impactA […]

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