Damn close election. Now the coalition fun starts
That was incredibly close. National plus Act plus probably Peter Dunne have scraped a small majority. How close is shown in the election […]
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Contrast the ways of ‘democracy’
I’m happy to say that when I crawled out of my sickbed and voted this morning, it was nothing like the photos on […]
Guest Post: QoT – Mmm, delicious linear time
I loved this post for QoT so much that I asked to reproduce it in full here. It resonated with me after reading […]
Polling Biases
This is from the discussion area of the wikipedia page on opinion polls. It is an analysis of biases between the polling companies […]
Poll Trends – National is soft
Rather than argue about individual polls, it is more interesting to look at the overall trends. A number of people have put an […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City WHO: You and any of your left-leaning comrades WHEN: 7.30pm, Wed 22nd October WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley […]
Maintenance
There will be some scheduled maintenance at the hosting company tonight between 10pm and 6am. During that period the site may be offline […]
Authorised for the Right…..
From the campaign launch, I got this photo, and decided that I’d put it up for the skulkers complaining about the EFA. For […]
Labour – too popular
Labour is too damn popular! I’m at the campaign launch and the place is full. There are a couple of hundred of us […]
Upgrades – Grumpy post area
I’ve brought the site up to date. All the various hacks that I put in this years have now been removed as the […]
We’re popular – but with the wrong people
After a lot of work both by a few e-mails from people here and by the good services of some people on nz.comp […]
On the standard of proof.
On occasion I’ve had my ire raised by Danyl Mclauchlan over at The Dim-Post, usually after he repeats crap from the sewers about […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
WHAT: Drinking Liberally Auckland City WHO: You and any of your left-leaning comrades WHEN: 7.30pm, Wed 24th September WHERE: London Bar, cnr Wellesley […]
Why the polls suck.
Newswire have a new poll “Is it a done deal? What the polls don’t tell us” which makes for some interesting reading. It […]
Upgrade time again
I’m on ‘holiday’ for the next few weeks to contribute some campaign work. However it will also give me some time to do […]
Rochelle, that was pretty good.
Well it turns out my niece has been having fun and done an effective google bomb on John Key. I’ve just been watching […]
MSM columns – clueless about fact checking
This week the election was announced and the third question to the PM (asked by Colin Espiner) was about whether The Standard possibly […]
Political Funding – Have your say (eventually).
In 1993, the then National government reluctantly implemented the MMP system by putting in the Electoral Act 1993. This was an act that […]
The polls are weird
Dave at Big News has a good post up on a vagaries of the polls. It expands on something that Idiot Savant noticed […]
Drinking Liberally Auckland: Reminder.
A reminder – Drinking Liberally is on in Auckland tonight with Laila Harre as the speaker. These are always fun to listen to […]
Policies for the wrong time (again)
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 […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
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, […]
Geek’s View – Papers Plus
One of the links to The Standard this week was from Reading the Maps on the topic of Playing the history card. The […]
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 […]
Geek’s view
On the odd occasion I have time to read outside of the confines of The Standard and its ever increasing brawl of entertaining […]
Drinking Liberally – Auckland
You’re invited to the first Auckland Drinking Liberally event – 7.30pm next Wednesday night (2 July) at the London Bar with special guest […]
WhaleOil – Technically Challenged
I was just checking the links to the standard and I see that Whale is being his usual self. It looks like he […]
Political Blogs Survey
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 […]
Happy 1000th.
Well that happened fast. This is the 1001st public post on The Standard. That is assuming I get it in before the next […]
Upgrades: Hardware
Upgrade is complete There will be a hardware upgrade on monday during working hours (still trying to get the time). The site will […]
Updates – gravatar/identicon
The latest tweak on the system are Gravatar/Identicons. Read about it on this site in the Gravatar menu item. Apart from the graphics, […]
Tweaking the updates
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 […]
Upgrades
I upgraded the site tonight. There have been a lot of security fixes since we pushed a test site together in August 2007. […]
Extra weight
A reader pointed out a set of hidden spam links that had attached themselves to the footer of the site. I’d noticed them […]
Oops.
There was a reboot on the server last night for some reason about 20 hours ago, and the database process failed to start. […]