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Another recycled article from the old Exposures Online Website archives originally published 2nd March 2001 Letter to the Editor March 2, 2001 Friday Flash Editor, Correspondence about the Photofinish in each of your last two issues has prompted us to reply. For nearly 20 years we have been photofinish camera operators (both film . . . → Read More: Solving The Photofinish Riddle The Importance Of Being Eno http://www.exposures.co.nz/audio/VirginiaPlain.mp3 There are a couple of songs that were game changers for me. As a kid I saw The Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night and the idea of girls chasing me down the street had great appeal and I thought I should be in a band . . . → Read More: The Importance Of Being Eno It’s always good to look back on something worthwhile because it reminds you that things that are worthwhile often take a bit of effort. Since 2006 I’ve been staging annual music concerts. I’ve called them The Waikaretu Performing Arts Festival because they began at my little farm in Waikaretu. These annual parties/concerts have . . . → Read More: It’s Bigger Than Texas A very, very long time ago, when the internet was very young, I started building websites. That stuff is easy now but back in the mid 90’s it was all very new. I still do some websites, mainly for close friends and clients I have been working with for nearly 2 decades. And I have . . . → Read More: Once Upon A Time… Hang Ups Yesterday, as our parliament of ‘honorable’ representatives passed into law under urgency a bill which even conservative polls showed that over three quarters of the population had strong opposition to a colleague told me he was ‘ashamed to be a New Zealander today’. I was pretty taken back by that remark. This . . . → Read More: Proud To Be A New Zealander? Remember public service restructuring? We needed it because the public sector was inefficient and the private sector was super efficient. It was the mantra of the 80’s Public enterprise = bad – private enterprise = good The facts, as usual, were different. Some private enterprise whizz kids turned out to be criminals and went to . . . → Read More: The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum I see Paula Benefit is in the news again today. Sadly she has chosen to ignore the word of the people who met her in Waiuku on May 29th. I’ll repost what I published on my Facebook page from her little meeting there… Paula and I discussing the Key Regime’s War on the Poor . . . → Read More: Poorer Benefits For All When I was 5 Dad took me to play rugby league with the Otahuhu Rugby League Club. Dad’s mate would come around some weekends and they would drink beer on the front steps of our house while us kids played bullrush. Kurt Sorenson was one of those kids. He was bloody hard to tackle too. . . . → Read More: Ngati Stewart Gathering, June 2, 2013 Bernie Last night I went to Bernie’s 56th birthday party in Thames. There were 60 others there. Let me tell you about Bernie. Bernie is an old school mate. At school Bernie was one of those pivotal teenager cool guys. He was taller than everyone else, had longer hair than everyone else, he had . . . → Read More: Let Me Tell You About Bernie The Road Is The Goal Ever since I was a little chap I’ve been encouraged to set goals and pursue them. It took me a lot of years to find this advice isn’t for everybody. It might suit some people but it’s just not suitable for me. I’m too random, too easily distracted, and . . . → Read More: The Road Is The Goal |
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