Maintenance
There will be up to 15 minutes of maintenance around 5pm. I have to shove some directories around to better structure the server […]
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Trivia: the milk bottle mystery
Enough of all of this politics. Lets look at something that is more mysterious than the hole that John Key is digging for […]
Discussion: The usual suspects in 2009
Ok, I promised a review of the comments in 2009. Here are the usual suspects with both the number of comments and the […]
Maintenance time
On Friday at 7 p.m the server is getting kernel upgrades and other maintenance upgrades. They reckon that it will take 10-15 minutes. […]
Lots of good posts in 2009.
I was pulling out the stats for 2009 so I could update Tumeke blog rankings about who authors on this site so Tim […]
Updates
Haven’t had as much time as I’d like for updates so far – there are some who have been insisting that I be […]
Minor tweaks
I did some small interface changes on Friday morning. The main effect was to widen the page from 950 pixels to 1024 pixels […]
New Zealand Political Studies Association Annual Conference
The New Zealand Political Studies Association is holding its Annual Conference from Nov 30 – 1 Dec in Auckland, hosted by the University […]
Damnit… I missed the 4000th post
Well I missed it. We rolled past the 4000th post at the end of October. A bit unexpected, it was too early by […]
Planned outage
At about 7pm on Saturday 14th there will be an outage while the server gets another upgrade to a new OS kernel. Your […]
Oops some people got cached…
Sorry to anyone who thought that The Standard hadn’t published anything today. The site had in fact been pretty active for a Monday. […]
$15 min wage march tonight
The Campaign for a Living Wage will be taking to the streets of Auckland’s CBD tonight to demand a minimum wage of 15 […]
350 Day of Action – Saturday
Scientists say that 350 parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere is the safe limit for humanity. We’re above that limit and we’re climbing […]
Protests against cuts to sexual abuse cover
[Pulling the following comment from Toad in Open Mike up to the front page.] If you are in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin […]
Bus drivers solidarity picket – Wgtn
There’s a solidarity picket tomorrow outside Infratil’s HQ in Wellington to support the locked out Auckland bus drivers. If you’ve got a moment […]
Outage
The outage earlier this evening was due to the hosting company taking the server down.. We will be rebooting the host machine to […]
Telecom solidarity fundraiser
Socialist Aotearoa have organised a Telecom solidarity fundraiser on Friday night. Not for $7m man Paul Reynolds, but for the lines engineers his […]
Wordcamp
If you’re interested in the software that runs this site and many others, there is a wordcamp in Wellington this weekend about the […]
Change to policy – Privacy Consent
This has been added to the policy because as Lew points out there appear to be morons in government, blogs, and in journalism […]
A little test
After a remark by all-your-base the other day, I’m testing how good Akismet (the WordPress anti-spambot) is. I’ve removed the need for entering […]
Drinking Liberally Wgtn
Just received this from Drinking Liberally Wellington: We hope you’ve enjoyed our unannounced winter break. We’re back this Thursday, at 5:30 at the […]
100,000th comment
Our first comment was on our second day, August 17th 2007 “Where will it lead? ” by trythisone on our third post… who […]
Pay equity protest TODAY
It’s pissing down with rain here in Wellington but the pay equity protest is going ahead. Grab your workmates and head down to […]
Bluehost have been a pain, but it is all over now.
Ok. The new server is up and running after a few painful days with the system being suspended, and then after moving it […]
Roger Award nominations open
Nominations are now open for the 2009 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand, which is organised the Campaign […]
Server move
The hosting company has moved the site to a new server last night at about 10pm. That is nice, however they didn’t bother […]
Pigs, kiwis… and a king!
From SAFE: Join Mike King, one of New Zealand’s leading comedians and pig campaigners, launch an exciting new pig-friendly initiative to help end […]
Server Glitch
I’m unsure exactly what the server glitch was earlier today. The hosting company had a problem with our database going ballistic, so they […]
3000th Post
Well it is that time again. We just rolled over the 3000th post on the site. Number 2000 was in November last year, […]
Join the Super City hikoi
IHI Aotearoa has put out the call for Aucklanders to join their hikoi against the Government’s undemocratic Super City proposal on Monday, May […]
Outage
There was an annoying outage in the site earlier for a few hours. The hosting site was investigating a performance issue on the […]
Clean Start rally – Thursday
If you’re in Auckland on Thursday pop along to this in your lunch hour and help support low-paid cleaners: Hat tip: The Hand […]
International Workers’ Day
If you’re in Auckland tonight get along for the annual May Day march up Queen Street. Poster below. More events, including for other […]
Meeting tonight on Super City
From Just Left: Tonight – Freemans Bay Community Centre – the Western Bays Community Board is holding a meeting from 6.30pm to discuss […]
Reminder: Drinking Liberally Wgtn
Drinking Liberally with Sue Bradford Where: Southern Cross Bar, Abel Smtih St, Wellington When: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 from 5:30pm. That’s tomorrow. Green […]
The server has moved (finally).
The Standard has moved the server to an off-shore site. There are many reasons for this. I can get equivalent or better service […]