tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60308991998531121382011-07-07T07:40:59.340+12:00stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030899199853112138.post-60772202807101934862008-11-25T15:05:00.003+13:002008-11-25T15:25:33.733+13:00

On Object Dart Che Tibby wrote about the sad saga of Finn Higgins and Capital Coast DHB's incompetence and mental health and community issues and there was a comment from a Giovanni who used to work in public mental health in Italy and he wrote that:Back home, once a person has sought help for a mental health issue, the local service has to take an active interest, do regular follow-ups, keep in

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The tooth thing continues to frighten and confuse me. Earlier I tweet'd "Have discovered linear relationship between functions plotted on modern dentistry and degree-of-confusing axes".. I was imagining them in some kind of 3D space with a third axis for buck$, dig.Initially I was just gonna get the damn thing pulled, but now I am tending towards a root canal. I don't feel like I have enough

stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030899199853112138.post-60972766197771381272008-11-21T13:19:00.005+13:002008-11-21T14:26:57.378+13:00

I am currently consumed by the first real toothache of my life. It's horrible, and sapping my will to think and write; it's almost begun draining me of my will to live as well. The only things which seem to really make a difference is aspirin and whisky -- which of course makes work a little more complicated than usual.Bomber continues to frighten, confuse, and depress me with his latest post

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It was a moment that defied all words, a moment when I felt something inside me fall asleep, and something else wake up.When I began this I didn't have a plan, other than that to chronicle my life under the new administration; there'd be an emphasis on small-scale micro-communalism initiatives, as well as more personal insights and responses to current domestic political affairs. But I don't

stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030899199853112138.post-77022987876333617152008-11-18T22:49:00.005+13:002008-11-18T23:12:30.911+13:00

We're not super-impressed with the response of our global leaders at the recent G20 Summit to address the world economic crisis.Developing nations hail G20 summit outcome (article)STRASBOURG, France (AFP) — Officials from EU and developing nations on Monday hailed the results of a crisis summit of world leaders while expressing concern at the impact of the economic strife on the world's poorest.

stephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08838859219532123743noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6030899199853112138.post-59619980619852863122008-11-17T13:30:00.005+13:002008-11-18T23:10:22.838+13:00

Some kind, clever person posted this (along the same lines as wot Tom made but much more localised) outside the supermarket:Green polling higher than National and ACT combined? That's certainly not the "change" that New Zealand apparently voted for. Put it another way, Labour + Green (2705) trounce the National/ACT/Maori (814) axil of evis (sorry, Maori Party, but really.. what are you thinking

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We spent a long time this evening talking about this recent GraphJam chart, US Political Belief vs Media Attention Given:We agreed that the situation was probably the same in New Zealand. We concluded that one of the most dangerous aspects of the media attention given to disproportionately extreme viewpoints is the fostering of an artificial sense of community among the nutjobs, when really they

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We were interested to read that Heller's cheese kransky was voted the supreme winner of the Great New Zealand Sausage Competition. I wouldn't actually rate them that highly myself. That's not to say that they're bad, but they're a little too porky, and I much prefer a more bulbous number fair bursting out of its skin and maybe with a herb-y aspect too. Also, the Heller's kransky is not the best

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We were interested to see on David Farrar's Kiwiblog where he posted an image of New Zealand with the electorates coloured blue or red depending on which "team" won the seat in the the recent elections:Your eyes are not playing tricks on you; that is almost the entire country's worth of non-metropolitan electorate seats now held by the blue team (National, I guess). As he remarks, Labour now

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We are quite enthralled already with the new MP for Auckland Central, Nikki Kaye*. We read on Facebook somewhere someone's description of her as a stoop-shouldered, slack-jawed bottle-blonde and laughed, but that's probably a bit rough on the new Minister of Shopping.When she appeared, victorious, on nationwide TV on election night she hardly needed Michelle Boag (remember her? Just google "

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Farmer John, I'm in love with your daughterWoah, the one with the champagne eyesShe knows that I love her even though she tells me lies- Don and DeweyOne of the (few) good things about the election Sat'day night was John Key's daughter Stephie. Not only does she not share his predilections for shit-eating grins and improvised hip-hop dancing, but she was dressed like some kinda cabin-attendant

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Last night we talked about a sort of paradise where proportional representation, or at least NZ's brand of it (MMP) could actually work. Perhaps one where the practice of block-voting -- that is, voting as one along party or coalition lines, has been deprecated. Every MP could vote with their conscience, as it were, or as they feel that they have been mandated -- without fear of repercussion.

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This is my new blog. It's kinda inspired by one of my blog heroes, Lessons in life or lessons in leaving, and to a lesser extent Mediascum. Also my old one Drinks After Work turned four and kinda died of natural causes. So it goes.We're really disappointed about yesterday's election result. Not only does it mean that (a) more or less 2 out of 3 people who voted, voted for National and/or Act and

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