Judith Collins – nascent Minister of Embarrassment?
Should have seen it coming Judith Collins has been vying politically with Rodney Hide to become the NACT’s Minister of Embarrassment (and Comedy). […]
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Maintenance and upgrades
The latest load of bill-paying work has finished (and the site is paid up until June). I’m at a relatively loose end for […]
Do they know its credit crunch time?
Great video for the real victims of this recession, the ‘smartest men in the room’ who cocked everything up, the money-men. Bleed the […]
Fossil watch
The hilarity continues. According to a person who was there, Douglas didn’t use his speech because it had been accidently leaked, and subsequently […]
So that’s the plan
Well it may not have been particularly self-evident just what National have been doing since the election, but clearly John has some kind […]
So what’s the plan again?
Labour got a fair amount of mileage during the election campaign out of harassing National about its lack of distinct policy. I guess […]
John Key keeps disappearing into satire
Danyl at The Dim-Post has been indulging in his favored pastime again – satire. In this case Cabinet expresses concern over missing PM […]
Let me say that again
“It’s important that I get an Australian perspective on the unfolding international economic situation, particularly the impact of a slowdown in China and […]
BastardWatch
After losing their last four seats in the Senate after Australia’s 2007 election, the Australian Democrats are trying hard to stay relevant and […]
Brownlee blowing smoke – or is it Coalfinger in disguise?
Gerry Brownlee was puffing smoke this Wednesday morning about his daft (in terms of the Kyoto agreement) decision last month to remove the […]
Climate change laffs
A topic for the NACT talk-fest. Needs a slogan for success.
My favourite indicator for a deep recession is showing up. The applications and enrollments for colleges and graduate programs appears to be significantly […]
The Standard wager
John Key has announced his ‘jobs summit’ at the end of Feburary saying “I don’t want this to be a talk fest, I […]
Change of career for Campbell?
Is John Campbell leaving TV to pursue his childhood dream of being a pugilist? No, it’s diminutive Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez. Uncanny […]
Serendipity, now with dinosaurs
Israel – a failed democracy
The following quoted text is a e-mail response by Mike Treen from Global Peace and Justice Auckland to someone who was complaining about […]
Pillow talk
I’ve been thinking about the concurrent crises we face – peak oil, climate change, and tightening food supply – how the limits to […]
No Xmas
And before anyone calls sour grapes I have to say even John deserves some xmas cheer but this was just too funny not […]
Now that’s more like it
Screw Obama, my vote’s with the shoe thrower. Hat tip: onegoodmove
He’s a fan
Just in: Coldplay to play at Vector Arena on March 18th. No word yet on whether John Key has managed to get tickets.
US ‘shoes-for-guns’ program in Iraq backfires
[The shoe-thrower is a journo from a Baghdad newspaper taking his opportunity to make his feelings known during Bush’s surprise farewell visit to […]
The Standard Week: 5-12 December
National/ACT won the election, fair enough. They won the right to govern and attempt to pass their laws. What they did not win […]
Long live the Free Speech Coalition
David Farrar, champion of democracy. We salute you for speaking truth to power, no matter who’s in charge. [Original here]
Caching Fixes
There has been a on-going issue with some readers not getting updates through in a timely fashion in the sidebars when posts and […]
The Secret Diary of Prime Minister John Key aged 47 1/3
If someone sent me this to put up as a guest post on The Standard, I would probably reject it as too childish. […]
Playing with rankings
Since the 16th of November, I’ve been running an experiment with the Alexa ranking system to look at the site sensitivity in rankings […]
The Standard Week 28 Nov – 5 December
At the election, National won a mandate for its platform to review the Work Account of ACC, to see whether privatisation might make […]
Godwinin’
More gold from Lyndon Hood: Blogger Still Maintains Clark Just Like Mugabe The power-sharing arrangement Helen Clark has permitted after the opposition National […]
The Standard Week – 21-28 November
The Standard Week has been on hiatus due to a combination of elections, forgetfulness, and binge drinking but it’s back. This week saw […]
The slow pols-news day quiz #1
Seems there’s so little news today, apart from the Mumbai attacks and the plane crash, that the Herald hasn’t even bothered to update […]
Another upgrade
Another upgrade complete. As per usual let me know if any problems (that I didn’t find in testing) show up. Please let me […]
‘Cos I say so
Following Tony “cos I say so” Ryall’s media success with his plan to cut down waiting lists using the King Canute model of […]
Musical Interlude: Forgot about Key
Some jokers have given new lyrics to the Dr. Dre and Eminem classic. Hilarious. My favourite part is Hide’s cameo. Hattip: Dolla$Trada
John Key’s victory parade
No, not the one the Herald’s organising. Over at Scoop Lyndon Hood’s unveiled his own victory parade for John Key and I gotta […]
More optimization
I’ve just put another round of optimizations into the system. In this case caching the p-code generated by php into shared memory This […]
Post traumatic Obama disorder
While there have been reports here of distraught voters calling the police and helplines for assistance in dealing with the trauma of a […]