Love it.
The Stench of Inevitability
Clearway 4pm – 6pm. Current time 3:57pm.
A Modest Proposal
So we all know that ACTA is being negotiated in secret, against our wishes, and directly opposed to the normal transparent democratic process as carried out in New Zealand.
We also have reason to believe (though due to the highly offensive secrecy, no firm proof) that there are provisions in the Treaty that will completely shaft our ISPs by forcing them to police their own customers, something they’re entirely unqualified to do, and something that requires the deployment of technologies that have been proven to be unreliable at best, and to cause damage to the network as well (by forcing slower throughput rates on EVERYONE, regardless of what they’re doing online).
And that they’re going to fuck the public of New Zealand by reintroducing a guilt upon accusation law. Directly contrary to the wishes of the public, as demonstrated in the mass online and in person protests not long ago.
My proposal is that the ISPs of New Zealand fuck them back.
My proposal is that we make a list of all MED (and other government department, and any private parties) staff involved in these highly offensive negotiations, and blacklist them from service.
Let’s see how they feel about losing their internet connections, their access to news, family contact, local & central government services, online bill paying & banking, and so on.
I don’t think they’ll like it one little bit.
Just an idea.
Cupcake Tattoos
Non-Cupcake Bonus:
Tattoo
Fast like English girls.
All done and dusted within about 10 minutes of adding.
(No offense meant to English girls, but let’s be honest.)
Windows Live Writer
Just trying out this software – though it’s not new with Windows 7, I’m pretty sure I used it once a year or so ago. Perhaps after Microsoft New Zealand Evangelist Nigel Parker demonstrated it?
It’s pretty clever, just give it your blog address, username, and password and it goes from there. Detecting the type of blog system you use, working out how to upload media files, and even goes so far as to scrape your homepage with and without a quick test post* it generates, in order to be able to render out a preview of your page with your blog theme faked up locally.
* Looked like this:
It’s a very tidy system. (Entirely unnecessary of course, I’ve never had any trouble using WordPress’s built-in editor, and that has the advantage of being the same everywhere I go.)
The Bateman
My entry for a small trailer contest, if you don’t know American Psycho, you might not even notice what I’ve done here.
Rio 2016
Water powered scooter?
Scooters don’t like it if you try to run them on this kind of cocktail.
She’s been parked outside exposed to the weather, for the whole time I’ve been in this place. I don’t know if there’s going to be a good place for her to live at the new apartment, so I arranged to stash her at my mum’s place. Which required getting her going.
This is what was in the tank, nearly a third water. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out this had something to do with why it wouldn’t start. Drained out the tank, ran some meths through the lines (it’s hydroscopic, so it grabs any left over water, and it’ll run through the engine ok so you don’t have to worry about how to rinse it out of the fuel system in turn, about the ideal stuff for the job, really), whipped off the airbox, cracked open and cleaned out the carbie, and with just a few (dozen) ginger kicks she came back to (initially hesitant) life.
It was great fun riding her over to Ponsonby, to begin with only slowly creeping up to a wheezing 30km/h, but by the time I got to my mum’s place, it was back up to the usual massively powerful and terrifying 60km/h.
I was grinning all the way.
If you want a reliable engine, you really have to go Japanese.