Blogs / August 2014
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Conservatives: ‘The Chinese’ are coming! It’s the yellow peril!
- Jack Yan
- We hear from certain parties that proclaim that they want one law for all New Zealanders, yet they’ll resort to targeting ethnic minorities anyway.
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Uber Duper?
- The Wellingtonista
- Plenty of Wellingtonians are getting excited about the arrival of the rapidly-growing quasi-taxi service Uber.
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Walking in Light
- The Wellingtonista
- We’ve already previewed the LUX festival, but now we’re a bit over halfway through and the weather’s looking kind, it’s worth reminding you to See.
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When the parties uploaded their opening statements to their YouTube accounts
- Jack Yan
- This is when each political party uploaded their opening broadcasts to their official YouTube accounts.
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Facebook loves spammers
- Jack Yan
- Can Facebook please explain why these obvious bot accounts, all of which have been reported, are allowed to remain on their website? (I have asked Facebook this directly already on Twitter and Facebook.
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Do I look like a burger yet?
- The Wellingtonista
- So a further update on the WOAP menus and burgers (some just because they’re within easy striking distance of one’s corporate workplace)… Pan de Muerto’s Mollete (pictured minus its lid for photographic purposes) was pretty good but could have done with more pork in proportion to the nasty beans.
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I thought political division got you nowhere in New Zealand
- Jack Yan
- A week and a half ago, I appeared on Back Benches to talk about Winston Peters MP’s “two Wongs” joke, and confined my comments to that.
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‘Planet Key’ is good old-fashioned Kiwi satire
- Jack Yan
- Fed up with the Electoral Commission barring Darren Watson from expressing his valid view with his satirical song ‘Planet Key’, I made a spoken-word version of it for my Tumblr a week ago, with copyright clearance over the lyrics.
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Caveat emptor: Facebook’s click farm problem is worsening
- Jack Yan
- Many people will remember this video, which exposed Facebook using click farms to inflate customers’ likes (I would have used Veritasium’s original, but YouTube won’t show embedding codes at the moment): Facebook Fraud Exposed: Does Facebook Advertising Lead to Fake Likes? from Reputation911 on Vimeo I won’t repeat what they exposed, as the video does a far better job.
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Let It Rain Beer
- The Wellingtonista
- Last night I sat down and drank a glass of my very own home-brewed IPA (India Pale Ale).
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A stomach explosion…
- The Wellingtonista
- And not as a result of the Cooking with Ice: Liquid Nitrogen demo.
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The Plates of Wellington on a Plate
- The Wellingtonista
- What you put on the plate is up to you… Wellington on a Plate starts today, hurray! You will no doubt be hearing more from us on this subject, so let’s kick off our coverage with an event that caters to every palate and every dietary requirement.
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Curl up with a good Bookfair
- The Wellingtonista
- It’s true i get excited by books, and every year i get excited by the Annual DCM Bookfair, which lucky for my excitement meter (which dipped a bit post film festival) is on this weekend.
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TSB Arena, Frank Kits Park Path, Te Aro, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand/Aotearoa
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A club that would have us as a member
- The Wellingtonista
- Tim handles his meat Everyone has different reasons for being in the Wellingtonista, and one of mine is that it means I get invitations from lovely people to do cool things.
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Let There Be Light
- The Wellingtonista
- lux — n , pl lux the derived SI unit of illumination equal to a luminous flux of 1 lumen per square metre.
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The 2014 General Election: the impressions the parties have left, so far
- Jack Yan
- A Kiwi friend, based in Australia, and I were discussing the General Election yesterday on the phone.
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Has Facebook admitted its servers ran out of resources?
- Jack Yan
- Those of you who follow this blog know that I believe Facebook’s servers are reaching their limits.
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When referring to your Australian office might not be a smart thing to do
- Jack Yan
- There are some companies that do not realize that we live in a global community.
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A familiar call after two mayoral campaigns on Wellington’s knowledge economy
- Jack Yan
- The latest Victoria University study, expressing that there is a shortage of creative people, sounds very familiar.
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