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Russell Brown's Hard News
May 2008
Cool (May 14)
TV list show in "doesn't suck" shock! (May 13)
I'm a Pakeha and you can stick your war (May 12)
A night on the town with Mr Slack (May 09)
Birthday Cheer for Ricky the Special-Needs Monkey (May 08)
The force is strong with this one (May 07)
Track to the Future (May 05)
Acid Man (May 02)
The Art of the Interview (May 01)
April 2008
Things To Do (Apr 29)
Shihad are like the All Blacks, only more reliable (Apr 27)
Case Studied (Apr 24)
Fibre Coming Soon! Ish ... (Apr 23)
Campbell comes back (Apr 22)
Not all victims are equal (Apr 21)
Some things I've been meaning to link to (Apr 18)
Hot Media (Apr 17)
Turning the page (Apr 16)
Campaigns (Apr 15)
Pamphleteering (Apr 14)
All the cool kids were there (Apr 12)
Intellectual Properties (Apr 11)
Speaking freely (Apr 10)
You can't always get what you want (Apr 09)
Piled in bins like summer fruit (Apr 08)
Icon Identities (Apr 07)
Moments (Apr 04)
Episode One (Apr 03)
Psst! Got any Earl Grey? (Apr 03)
Ya rly (Apr 01)
March 2008
Ready to Fly (Mar 31)
New on the Street (Mar 28)
Slumpy Cashflow (Mar 27)
Electrickery (Mar 26)
Misquote Unquote (Mar 25)
Debate like it's 2008! (Mar 20)
Buy now: spend the recession inside! (Mar 19)
Unhappy Birthday (Mar 18)
A business most feral (Mar 17)
Leaving the bunker (Mar 14)
Geekstravaganza (Mar 13)
What I'd really like to know (Mar 12)
The Universal Intercept (Mar 11)
Call it what you like (Mar 10)
All this and more (Mar 07)
Phoning a Friend (Mar 06)
Laying Down the Law (Mar 04)
February 2008
Don't call it a consensus (Feb 29)
202.22.18.241 (Feb 28)
The drugs don't (always) work (Feb 27)
They don't make 'em like they used to (Feb 26)
What the people want to hear (Feb 25)
Networking takes a back seat (Feb 22)
A thing that rarely ends well (Feb 20)
Recreations (Feb 19)
Not so much ironic as outrageous (Feb 18)
Wellington, you win (Feb 15)
Make you crazy like datura (Feb 13)
Strange Southern Superman (Feb 12)
Media 7 (Feb 10)
There's Always One (Feb 08)
Must Try Harder (Feb 07)
Another Big Day (Feb 05)
Post Foo (Feb 04)
And on into a whole new year (Feb 01)
January 2008
Herself's Turn (Jan 30)
Tidbits ahoy (Jan 29)
Panic (Jan 28)
All your copyright are belong to us (Jan 25)
Theories, please ... (Jan 23)
Spin Spun (Jan 22)
Monster Weekend (Jan 21)
Notes for a Big Day Out (Jan 18)
Grateful for 'Rain' (Jan 17)
Castoffs of Waiheke (Jan 16)
About a Cat (Jan 08)
Never let the facts ... (Jan 07)
Another nail in the coffin of music DRM (Jan 04)
December 2007
The Daily Embarrassment (Dec 31)
Uniquely Refreshing (Dec 27)
Rockin' (Dec 21)
Freely-exercised contempt (Dec 20)
Random (Dec 19)
The Best Country in the World: Selling fast! (Dec 17)
Word of the Year 2007: Te Qaeda (Dec 16)
Nurturing Capitalism (Dec 14)
What to make of the spray (Dec 13)
Quite the Two-Step (Dec 11)
Denial (Dec 10)
Mighty Indeed (Dec 07)
The Clamour to Cringe (Dec 05)
Farce About (Dec 04)
November 2007
Somebody flicked the Christmas Switch (Nov 30)
Too busy with First Life sorry (Nov 29)
Ambition (Nov 28)
It's in the Wild (Nov 27)
Back in the mainstream (Nov 26)
Maoriland Calling (Nov 23)
The Bottom is a Magic Place (Nov 22)
Because that's how I roll (Nov 21)
Looking for Monsters (Nov 20)
Meet the New Bob (Nov 19)
Fake Fiona Rae (Nov 16)
Spammer until proven innocent (Nov 15)
"The Terrorism Files" (Nov 14)
The Finance Campaign (Nov 13)
Tapped out and meanwhile ... (Nov 09)
The Demon E-Word (Nov 08)
Dopamine psychosis and other great nights out (Nov 06)
Scuffling and screaming on The Left (Nov 04)
TV: IP Everywhere (Nov 02)
October 2007
Meanwhile in Iraq ... (Oct 31)
High Times (Oct 30)
Moron y Moron (Oct 29)
Real Media (Oct 25)
Another Network in a Different City (Oct 24)
Mint Chicks win everything (Oct 19)
Reading Material (Oct 17)
Copyright Abuse (Oct 17)
Te Qaeda and the God Squad (Oct 16)
The standing-still sweep (Oct 15)
Those Men Again (Oct 11)
Not so much evil as stupid ... (Oct 10)
A fairly weird encounter (Oct 05)
Ten Times Warmer (Oct 02)
Connecting the Box (Oct 01)
September 2007
Invisible Harblz (Sep 28)
A Highlight (Sep 27)
One Million Tunes (Sep 26)
Opening a canned worm factory (Sep 25)
A. B. B. (Sep 24)
Policy, finally (Sep 21)
Deriving satisfaction from the misfortune of others (Sep 20)
He might be crazy, but he's not dumb (Sep 19)
Get a Clue (Sep 17)
Free Man (Sep 14)
Go Webstock (Sep 13)
Bad Skillz (Sep 11)
The Soap Opera (Sep 10)
Friday funnies, mostly (Sep 07)
Geeky Thursday again (Sep 06)
Fabrication and humanity (Sep 05)
Not Okay (Sep 04)
Done and Blended (Sep 03)
August 2007
Go Access (Aug 31)
The Near Future (Aug 30)
Nasty (Aug 27)
Must-have Mayoralty (Aug 24)
Pills, not so many thrills (Aug 23)
KGB yeah! (Aug 22)
This just in: Sky over Tasman Sea not falling (Aug 21)
More Wikipedia Scanning (Aug 20)
Busted editors (Aug 17)
The meaning of a Banana (Aug 14)
Friendly Fire? (Aug 13)
The Big Stereo Bundle (Aug 10)
Evil (Aug 09)
Forward humans (Aug 08)
Feckless Solutions (Aug 06)
Some things you may not know (Aug 03)
Idiotic and lamentable behaviour (Aug 01)
A lot of money and a bit rich (Aug 01)
July 2007
The cane and the strap (Jul 31)
Copyright Amendment Bill latest (Jul 27)
TV is social. Already (Jul 26)
Phew, what a scorcher? (Jul 25)
Brimful on the 45 (Jul 23)
In the Music (Jul 20)
Death Spiral! (Jul 19)
Leo TV (Jul 18)
No Bills (Jul 17)
Can somebody hook a brother up with some Twiglets? (Jul 16)
Just some links, really (Jul 12)
Public health: the new terror threat (Jul 11)
Transmogrithingy (Jul 10)
Bad journalism, old stories (Jul 08)
TVNZ: The Sub's Pencil Strikes (Jul 06)
Taking the rise (Jul 04)
New Rules (Jul 03)
Don't Panic (Jul 02)
June 2007
Not off to bed (Jun 29)
Not such as to engender confidence (Jun 28)
Unflattering stereotypes about the record industry (Jun 27)
Here and There (Jun 26)
Singapore, I have a problem (Jun 22)
Arrest the bastards at the border (Jun 20)
Dinner in District 2 (Jun 18)
Modern Endeavour (Jun 15)
From Saigon (Jun 14)
Ready to Fly (Jun 12)
Actually, I've always been really into yacht racing (Jun 08)
An unexpectedly long post about supplements and stuff (Jun 07)
Googlin' on Hobson Street (Jun 06)
New Dataz (Jun 01)
May 2007
Contains strong language (May 31)
Brown bigots etc. (May 30)
Friday night road warrior (May 28)
A Taito Spot (May 25)
I'm marking Youth Week by being down with the kids (May 24)
No end of mileage (May 22)
A Banner Evening (May 21)
Random (May 18)
He even has his Baldrick (May 17)
What's on David Bain's iPod? (May 16)
Mr Brown (May 15)
Claims (May 14)
The People's Choice (May 11)
I'm in yr Beehive tellin yr MPs about teh internets (May 10)
Graceless Islanders (May 09)
We'll find out where all the parties are (May 08)
Out of the Groove (May 04)
Compromise (May 03)
Morning Multimedia (May 02)
Some actual politics (May 01)
April 2007
Parties, seriousness and the death of Web 2.0 (Apr 30)
Unusual Democracy (Apr 27)
The A-Word (Apr 24)
They faked those moon landings too, you know (Apr 23)
Dancing the DMCA (Apr 20)
On receipt of a not-so-nastygram (Apr 19)
Awful in more than one way (Apr 18)
Art and the Big Guy (Apr 17)
Biting back at Bill (Apr 16)
A depressing day in court (Apr 13)
No Friends of Science (Apr 12)
The Civility Code (Apr 11)
Dancing is good for the soul ... (Apr 10)
British style (Apr 05)
Things we needed to hear (Apr 04)
You've gotta hand it to Steve (Apr 03)
The Public Good (Apr 02)
March 2007
Human Space Invaders (Mar 29)
Feeling good (Mar 29)
The Solipsistic Left (Mar 27)
Public Address Radio (Mar 26)
DUM DUM DA DAT DA DAT DADA DAT DA DAT DA!! (Mar 23)
Some Politics (Mar 22)
TVNZ on Demand actually doesn't suck (Mar 21)
The Clean are The Clean are The Clean (Mar 19)
Oh Dear ... (Mar 16)
Shonky scepticism (Mar 15)
Memories of the attic press (Mar 14)
Kids these days (Mar 13)
Gay, but really not happy (Mar 12)
5.30 Follies (Mar 09)
Introducing GodTube (Mar 07)
That's Entertainment (Mar 06)
Sunday newspaper prints informative and well-researched story (Mar 05)
Bad men (Mar 02)
February 2007
Geekstuff (Feb 28)
Trams, drams and scams (Feb 27)
Launching into raunch (Feb 26)
Itinerary packed, bags not just yet (Feb 23)
The Arguments (Feb 22)
Testify! (Feb 21)
Nasty mixtures (Feb 20)
You can't moan (Feb 19)
Watch your step? (Feb 16)
The Report Card (Feb 15)
Lying liars again (Feb 14)
Back when I worked in the arms industry ... (Feb 13)
Chew before swallowing (Feb 08)
An okay sort of day (Feb 07)
Foo, what a scorcher! (Feb 05)
I hope she does something interesting (Feb 02)
Bob each way (Feb 01)
January 2007
We're Blending again (Jan 31)
Land-grab in the Magic Kingdom (Jan 30)
In other news, the sky is falling (Jan 29)
Just a little bit good, surely? (Jan 26)
There's a funny bit at the end ... (Jan 25)
Draped in their flag (Jan 23)
The Big Roundup (Jan 22)
Appeasing Osama (Jan 19)
Wii Too (Jan 17)
Wonderful athletes (Jan 15)
The New Boss (Jan 11)
The Suicide Note (Jan 10)
More party pill palaver (Jan 09)
Getting the pip (Jan 08)
Inauspicious (Jan 05)
December 2006
The true meaning of Tutaekuri (Dec 28)
Grandpa (Dec 22)
Unbundled! (Dec 20)
A little patch of turf (Dec 19)
Munted in one way or another (Dec 18)
Momentness (Dec 15)
Walk the Line (Dec 14)
One for Wayne (Dec 12)
Down in the Park? (Dec 11)
Copywrong (Dec 08)
Remember where you heard it first ... (Dec 06)
Doing the Rounds (Dec 05)
Aggregate me, baby! (Dec 01)
November 2006
Citizen Key II: The High School Years (Nov 30)
Maxim-ising the vote (Nov 28)
Awesome (Nov 27)
Of course it's about the book (Nov 24)
Signs and ensigns (Nov 23)
Let's be hearing it (Nov 22)
Music in Parks (Nov 21)
Assault by Monstrous, Cancerous Used Condom Destroys Auckland. And so on ... (Nov 20)
Only rock 'n' roll (Nov 17)
Uncapturing Content (Nov 16)
Aiming for mediocrity. Again. (Nov 15)
The God Thing (Nov 14)
Because I am weak (Nov 13)
More than a little odd (Nov 10)
Good result (Nov 09)
Ihug: still screwed? (Nov 08)
Something up with Apple? (Nov 07)
Announcing: Public Address System! (Nov 03)
Ban torture (except for spammers) (Nov 02)
From a faraway place (Nov 01)
October 2006
Playing to the whistle (Oct 30)
If you hum it ... (Oct 27)
His Bobness (Oct 26)
The Upside of Doubt (Oct 25)
Confusion? (Oct 24)
Plonkers (Oct 20)
Astroturf (Oct 19)
You say it like it's a bad word (Oct 18)
Tricky issues (Oct 17)
Scramble (Oct 13)
I'm a Heathen (Oct 11)
Mr Dalrymple (Oct 10)
Now here's an idea ... (Oct 09)
But will it be sunny for the Big Day Out? (Oct 06)
So frivolous, and not even Friday (Oct 04)
Changes (Oct 03)
Thanks for the Add (Oct 02)
September 2006
Father and son (Sep 28)
Brownie the Chumby (Sep 27)
Various calamities (Sep 26)
Cuckoo (Sep 25)
Tally Ho! (Sep 22)
How Bizarre (Sep 21)
Lying for the Lord? (Sep 20)
It's not catching, you know (Sep 18)
Rock 'n' roll stuff (Sep 15)
Poor show (Sep 14)
Big Norm (Sep 13)
The Unreality Engine (Sep 12)
The Strange Path (Sep 11)
What chicks really dig (Sep 08)
iTunes, yes (Sep 07)
Counterspin (Sep 06)
Bullshit and wankers (Sep 04)
Home (Sep 01)
August 2006
Foo Report (Aug 30)
Quick update (Aug 26)
It's all good, mostly (Aug 25)
Just before I go (Aug 21)
Bong Joy (Aug 18)
A great occasion of state (Aug 17)
The Crazy People (Aug 16)
Duh (Aug 15)
Quite normal, really (Aug 11)
Contender: Worst mistake ever (Aug 10)
Profoundly Unimportant (Aug 08)
Greening (Aug 07)
Free Press (Aug 04)
The anomalies are astonishing (Aug 03)
Crossing Live (Aug 02)
Fireworks (Aug 01)
July 2006
What's that wheezing sound from Wellington? (Jul 27)
Reasons to be cheerful (Jul 26)
So that's it, then? (Jul 25)
Toilettenstreich!! (Jul 21)
How would it go on Trade Me? (Jul 20)
They have a point (Jul 19)
Mindshare vs. moolah (Jul 18)
Depressing (Jul 17)
Some week ... (Jul 14)
Things I never knew (Jul 13)
Freaky Money (Jul 12)
New old news (Jul 11)
The Usual Bastardry (Jul 10)
At least it's not pr0n (Jul 07)
School Holidays (Jul 06)
The other family violence (Jul 04)
Mission Accomplished (Jul 04)
June 2006
All your base aren't belong to us? (Jun 28)
Approaching the obscene (Jun 27)
A bit of fun (Jun 23)
I don't care that much (Jun 22)
Thinking about the future now (Jun 21)
Just to be on the safe side (Jun 20)
Bringing the danah (Jun 19)
Digital Day (Jun 15)
Baghdad on the Waitemata (Jun 13)
Death of the video store guy (Jun 09)
Some fuss (Jun 08)
Splendidly patronising (Jun 07)
End of an era (Jun 06)
Another hat on (Jun 02)
May 2006
The cap doesn't fit (May 30)
Whack-a-mole (May 26)
Evil Telecom tries to shut down critics (May 24)
Mash-Up! (May 22)
Whisky would be better (May 19)
Doing it for the kids ... (May 18)
It never rains ... (May 16)
Migraine journalism (May 15)
Flocking Mental (May 11)
Following up (May 09)
"They know that we're not being straight-up" (May 08)
Boing Boinged! (May 05)
It's all on - eventually (May 04)
Various Informations (May 03)
Foreign hordes etc (May 01)
April 2006
Wiki Trouble (Apr 26)
Well Geeky (Apr 24)
I'll be having a quiet one (Apr 20)
A History of Violence (Apr 19)
The Tyranny of the Motor Camp (Apr 18)
Ecstasy for grownups (Apr 10)
Thanks Everyone (Apr 07)
Just not good enough (Apr 05)
Contempt (Apr 04)
It's grim in Mt Eden (Apr 03)
March 2006
Losing the Bird (Mar 31)
The Big House (Mar 29)
Anyone more normal? (Mar 28)
Scientology is retarded (Mar 24)
Crash (Mar 23)
Gone by lunchtime (Mar 21)
Mixed feelings (Mar 20)
Poison Pill Theory (Mar 17)
Strange World (Mar 15)
Oh, the irony (Mar 14)
Blur (Mar 13)
Not bolted down (Mar 09)
Housekeeping (Mar 07)
Three Things (Mar 06)
February 2006
Four Strange Men (Feb 27)
Totally Hot (Feb 24)
A long post on telecommunications (Feb 22)
Philosophical (Feb 19)
Large File Alert (Feb 17)
Everything is at stake (Feb 16)
Born to Text (Feb 15)
The Bright Side of Insurgency (Feb 13)
Various Kinds of Yikes (Feb 10)
Is it because I is white? (Feb 09)
Makes Waitangi look innocuous, doesn't it? (Feb 06)
Conquering dictatorship with bad spelling (Feb 03)
Results May Vary (Feb 02)
January 2006
Threats and stuff (Jan 31)
Not Being Evil (Jan 27)
On and Off (Jan 26)
TV-Internet cultural crossover (Jan 25)
People Like Us (Jan 22)
Still waiting ... (Jan 19)
One more time ... (Jan 17)
Second-time blog virgin (Jan 16)
Queen Street 3: Safe from the Natives (Jan 05)
Queen Street 2: Die Harder (Jan 04)
Exile on Queen Street (Jan 03)
December 2005
Merry Christmas (I have lost the will to blog) (Dec 23)
Creative Indigestion (Dec 21)
Kong's really good (Dec 19)
We've got a PVR (Dec 15)
Left Wing Liberal Evil (Dec 14)
Scary (Dec 12)
One for the road ... (Dec 09)
American Taliban (Dec 08)
Double Shot (Dec 07)
Balls (Dec 06)
Crema da Crop (Dec 02)
Living together (Dec 01)
November 2005
Coffee and culture (Nov 30)
Brute Farce (Nov 28)
Egregious Examples (Nov 23)
One eye on the game (Nov 22)
Rugby will be the winner on the day (Nov 18)
Probably the wrong inquiry (Nov 17)
Communication Fatigue (Nov 16)
Updatin' (Nov 14)
EULA lunacy (Nov 11)
Mo French (Nov 10)
The French (Nov 09)
The Contribution (Nov 07)
More on Premium Content (Nov 04)
Extraordinary (Nov 03)
Let's do it again (Nov 02)
Rumour and fact (Nov 01)
October 2005
Back in the Hood (Oct 28)
Groupthink Comedy (Oct 27)
NoTunes (Oct 26)
Three phases or fewer (Oct 20)
Dour, suicidal, etc (Oct 19)
Anger Management (Oct 18)
The detail on the detail (Oct 17)
Ins and outs (Oct 13)
Snot Fare (Oct 12)
Wheezy (Oct 11)
Signal to Noise (Oct 10)
Zaoui Sings (Oct 06)
Big Day (Oct 05)
Some stuff (Oct 04)
Special Friends (Oct 03)
September 2005
Traditional Pragmatic Conservative (Sep 30)
Routing Around (Sep 28)
Back to the Future? (Sep 27)
Meme moratorium (Sep 26)
Misconstrued and moving on (Sep 23)
Not such a smart move (Sep 22)
Looking like a winner (Sep 20)
Anything Could Happen (Sep 16)
National forcibly marries lesbians! (Sep 15)
Hitching Sinners (Sep 14)
Some Numbers (Sep 13)
Gadzooks! (Sep 12)
In Brief (Sep 09)
Interesting day (Sep 08)
This just in ... (Sep 07)
What a Cult! (Sep 07)
Bad policy, baby (Sep 06)
Ugly As (Sep 05)
Another Email Emerges (Sep 02)
August 2005
Just making it up (Aug 30)
What would we like you to say about us? (Aug 29)
The Odds (Aug 26)
The who-the-hell-knows debate (Aug 23)
The Breeder Bounty (Aug 19)
Everyone's becoming the media (Aug 18)
Liberated! (Aug 17)
UFOs (Aug 16)
Pride and Astonishment (Aug 15)
No Debate (Aug 12)
Nice and Nasty (Aug 10)
With grace and good humour (Aug 09)
Cracking Lion Reds on the back of the seat (Aug 08)
Motivation! (Aug 05)
The Unenvied Official (Aug 04)
Hurtling Backwards? (Aug 01)
July 2005
Stories it is now safe to tell (Jul 29)
Conniptions (Jul 28)
Hail the New Victorians (Jul 25)
Que? (Jul 22)
King of the Zeitgeist (Jul 21)
White collared (Jul 20)
Sound and light (Jul 19)
OTOH (Jul 15)
Information (Jul 14)
Some behaviour issues (Jul 12)
Bloody Murder (Jul 08)
Everybody must get stoned (Jul 06)
So, what do you think of New Zealand? (Jul 05)
The National Arena (Jul 04)
June 2005
A Very Big Day for Me (Jun 29)
Clever, creepy (Jun 28)
Actually, it's not alright ... (Jun 24)
Show us the money (Jun 23)
Bits and pieces (Jun 22)
Reading the polls (Jun 20)
Grrrr ... (Jun 17)
Clever. Not. (Jun 15)
But hardly innocent either ... (Jun 14)
Don't describe, characterise (Jun 13)
What are they smoking? (Jun 10)
Po-faced outrage (Jun 09)
Lounge weekend (Jun 07)
Very much on (Jun 03)
Perverse Routing Decisions (Jun 02)
D'oh! (Jun 01)
May 2005
Treading Carefully (May 30)
Sick As (May 27)
Shooting Down (May 26)
"Dawn Raid" is already taken ... (May 25)
You had to be there (May 24)
Budget Blog: Short Version (May 19)
Budging (May 19)
An Education (May 17)
Nightmare on Molesworth Street (May 16)
Going nuclear? (May 13)
Some big news from me (May 11)
Barrels and bandwidth (May 09)
Hangover blog (May 06)
Oh Bovver (May 05)
Brother Sword of Compassion (May 04)
Blackout! (May 03)
April 2005
Can hardly wait (Apr 29)
This unusual affair (Apr 28)
Things being what they are (Apr 25)
What would Jesus have on his iPod? (Apr 22)
Economically incorrect (Apr 21)
Fisking, feminism, etc (Apr 20)
Choice (Apr 19)
On Drugs (Apr 14)
Very Hairy (Apr 13)
News from the front bum front (Apr 11)
The Gayest Thing Ever? (Apr 08)
Scroll down for politics (Apr 07)
Selectively Remembering the Pope (Apr 06)
Meltdown! (Apr 05)
Doggin' (Apr 01)
March 2005
Missing George (Mar 31)
Once more ... (Mar 30)
Hysteria (Mar 29)
Incipient Moonbats (Mar 24)
Front page next day (Mar 22)
Going Live (Mar 21)
Speaking freely (Mar 18)
Responses (Mar 17)
Wellington Rising (Mar 16)
Leave the chip behind (Mar 15)
Mighty wind (Mar 11)
Peters again (Mar 10)
Sky jinks (Mar 09)
Exceeding well over? (Mar 07)
The gnarlier questions (Mar 02)
All souls (Mar 01)
February 2005
Days in the sunshine capital (Feb 28)
Big Long Rant (Feb 24)
Paris Hilton too! (Feb 22)
And onwards ... (Feb 21)
A stand against the surrender of taste (Feb 18)
Proper Opposition (Feb 17)
After SpongeBob (Feb 15)
Hysteria (Feb 14)
The other scandal (Feb 11)
Just a location (Feb 09)
Talkback Radio With Pictures (Feb 08)
Fog of summer (Feb 04)
Geeky Thursday (Feb 03)
Old Uncle Don (Feb 02)
A new chapter (Feb 01)
January 2005
Strung out, naked, etc (Jan 27)
Gosh (Jan 26)
Redefining worthless opinion (Jan 25)
Debrief (Jan 24)
Good Day Mediaphiles ... (Jan 21)
Geeky stuff (Jan 20)
Back from the Rock (Jan 17)
Forcible medication and coercive treatment (Jan 09)
Our round (Jan 07)
The Uncharitables (Jan 04)
December 2004
Tsunami media (Dec 30)
Tired but happy (Dec 24)
That bloke (Dec 22)
Spinning of yarns (Dec 20)
Vrrrrrmmmm ... (Dec 17)
Argy-bargy-whoops-a-daisy (Dec 16)
What price the Mother of the Nation? (Dec 15)
Smells like teen spirit (Dec 13)
The Liberal Lollyscramble (Dec 10)
Let's get on (Dec 09)
Sharp (Dec 08)
Funny old week (Dec 07)
Wellington Again (Dec 06)
Not any Friday (Dec 02)
All the fun ... (Dec 01)
November 2004
Real conscience (Nov 30)
Incendiary! (Nov 29)
A good week for Mr Z (Nov 26)
Inquiry on, dudes (Nov 25)
Man of Mystery? (Nov 24)
It's Hell that gets on my tits (Nov 23)
Spooky (Nov 22)
Fridayed (Nov 19)
Whatever, Trevor (Nov 18)
Have a go if you're hard enough ... (Nov 17)
Friends of Dorothy (Nov 16)
Another night on the town (Nov 15)
Still on the wires (Nov 12)
It would be madness (Nov 11)
Back in town (Nov 10)
Emotional Maintenance (Nov 05)
Get yer evangelicals out (Nov 04)
Coverage (Nov 03)
It's the science, stupid (Nov 02)
October 2004
Koha return (Oct 29)
Three statements (Oct 28)
The Sweetest Thing (Oct 27)
Nightmare scenario (Oct 26)
Freaky Friday (Oct 22)
Hip Hop Blog (Oct 21)
After Corngate (Oct 20)
And a party too! (Oct 19)
L-Dopes (Oct 18)
A good day (Oct 15)
Surely not ... (Oct 14)
Weird War (Oct 13)
Toast (Oct 11)
Golden Weather again (Oct 08)
Hospo gossip (Oct 07)
Alternative Reality News (Oct 06)
Unglamorous (Oct 05)
Shilly-shallying (Oct 01)
September 2004
The envelope, please ... (Sep 29)
Late run (Sep 28)
Hitting the fan (Sep 27)
We know nothing ... (Sep 24)
The Pain (Sep 22)
Smother Hubbard (Sep 19)
Pleas for attention (Sep 17)
I'm a New Zealander, get me out of here! (Sep 16)
Major Barney (Sep 14)
Flap (Sep 13)
Rock Against Blowhards (Sep 10)
Unenlightened self-interest (Sep 09)
Innocents II (Sep 08)
Locked up (Sep 07)
The Innocents (Sep 06)
Going local (Sep 03)
Globe agog (Sep 02)
August 2004
The Race (Aug 31)
Counting (Aug 30)
Hell-bent for leather (Aug 27)
Mo' Destinies (Aug 25)
The New Black (Aug 24)
Crumbs! (Aug 19)
Trivial typing errors and more (Aug 17)
Turn (Aug 16)
Rocking out (Aug 13)
Intent (Aug 12)
Going Boom (Aug 11)
Strange Times (Aug 10)
Sex and terror (Aug 09)
Uncharitable (Aug 06)
Declaring war (Aug 05)
Pink Frost (Aug 03)
Not so rough trade (Aug 02)
July 2004
I, Bloke (Jul 30)
Spooky (Jul 29)
Shrum vs. Shrub (Jul 28)
Fresh air (Jul 27)
Long Days (Jul 23)
The motorcade sped on ... (Jul 22)
Glass Houses (Jul 20)
Take That! (Jul 16)
Brilliant Day (Jul 14)
The News (Jul 13)
Respect (Jul 12)
Good sport and so on (Jul 09)
Houston, we have a problem ... (Jul 07)
Gossip, rumour and fact (Jul 06)
Dear Auckland (Jul 01)
June 2004
Boundless confidence (Jun 30)
Here's hoping (Jun 29)
Visiting the moral wellspring (Jun 28)
Twinked in (Jun 25)
Whatever happens tomorrow (Jun 23)
Clive TV (Jun 21)
The northeast gales (Jun 18)
Not a freakin' clue (Jun 17)
The scary philosopher (Jun 16)
Her Indoors (Jun 15)
Encouraging (Jun 14)
The next one (Jun 11)
Doing it for the kids ... (Jun 10)
Quantities unknown (Jun 09)
Liberal ironies (Jun 08)
At last, it gets interesting (Jun 04)
Going Danish? (Jun 03)
Peers (Jun 02)
Return of the Redeemer (Jun 01)
May 2004
Since I last blogged (May 31)
Stranger still ... (May 26)
Sense and sensibilities (May 25)
Facts are out of fashion (May 24)
Without wishing to be a spoilsport ... (May 21)
Not unbundling (May 20)
Regrettably, spoiled for choice (May 18)
More on the mayor's fantasies ... (May 14)
Roads to glory (May 13)
Idol thoughts (May 12)
Knowing what we believe (May 11)
Bad moves (May 10)
A tragedy for everyone (May 07)
Expectations (May 06)
Old Faithful Chops (May 04)
Dumb and dumber (May 03)
April 2004
Maori Idol (Apr 30)
Birds (Apr 29)
Human traffic (Apr 28)
Telly visions (Apr 26)
People's Voices (Apr 23)
Grim reality (Apr 22)
Impasse (Apr 20)
Back through (Apr 19)
Just this once ... (Apr 16)
Moral thugs (Apr 15)
Later (Apr 14)
Moral fog (Apr 13)
Good things (Apr 08)
Ill Semantics (Apr 07)
Could be better (Apr 06)
Gratitudes (Apr 05)
A rum day ... (Apr 02)
March 2004
New poll: Earth flat (Mar 31)
Welcome home, love (Mar 30)
Like any other New Zealander (Mar 26)
With the best of intentions (Mar 25)
Theatre (Mar 24)
Joy at the Park (Mar 23)
Ill wind? (Mar 22)
Petrolheads (Mar 19)
Party off (Mar 18)
After Aznar (Mar 16)
Defending democracy (Mar 15)
The Mystery Road (Mar 12)
Out of the cart? (Mar 11)
The Corridor (Mar 10)
Very Wellington (Mar 09)
The long campaign (Mar 08)
Silly season (Mar 03)
Six years on (Mar 02)
Blowing up (Mar 01)
February 2004
Doom (Feb 27)
Shore thing (Feb 26)
Fresh hair (Feb 24)
The politics of resentment is no way to run a country (Feb 23)
Going to Evan (Feb 20)
The mother of all debates (Feb 19)
Pop shop! (Feb 17)
Idolatory (Feb 16)
Reaching for the logic (Feb 12)
And it gets worse ... (Feb 11)
Better, faster, cheaper? (Feb 10)
Rushes of blood (Feb 09)
Oh dear ... (Feb 03)
Spooked (Feb 02)
January 2004
Standards of proof (Jan 30)
More in sorrow (Jan 28)
Mo' Fish (Jan 27)
Elijah Wood on acid. And fish. (Jan 23)
Just pick the pretty one (Jan 22)
Doleful (Jan 20)
I still love rock 'n' roll (Jan 19)
Bro vs. Big Bro (Jan 15)
Not writing (Jan 12)
December 2003
New Year Blog (Dec 29)
Thwack (Dec 23)
A good night out (Dec 19)
Seriousness (Dec 18)
We'll see (Dec 17)
History pivots while we sleep (Dec 15)
The P Devil (Dec 12)
Supplementary questions (Dec 11)
Pompous Asses (Dec 09)
Not impressive at all (Dec 08)
Running Rings (Dec 05)
Darth George (Dec 04)
Liars (Dec 03)
About culture (Dec 01)
November 2003
In the area (Nov 28)
Bovine TV (Nov 27)
Hearts and minds (Nov 25)
Usual suspects (Nov 24)
Same again (Nov 21)
And now ... radio spam! (Nov 20)
Thunder Out West (Nov 19)
Roiled Families (Nov 18)
Whatever (Nov 17)
Unleash Hell (Nov 14)
Here we go again ... (Nov 13)
End of the world ... (Nov 12)
Real numbers (Nov 11)
Sitting Ducks (Nov 10)
Twiggy in trouble (Nov 07)
Less than free (Nov 06)
Game on! (Nov 05)
The Westpac scam (Nov 03)
October 2003
New mysteries (Oct 27)
Yesterday's news (Oct 23)
Beautiful things (Oct 22)
Scary synapses (Oct 17)
Returns (Oct 15)
Respect me in the morning ... (Oct 14)
Rugby and me (Oct 10)
Power craziness (Oct 09)
Lomborg (Oct 07)
Gordy's Lament (Oct 03)
Our people tonight ... (Oct 02)
September 2003
Tabloid Tale (Sep 30)
Da Bomb (Sep 26)
Strangeness on the radio (Sep 25)
Hitting Kids (Sep 24)
Sportronic in Beige (Sep 22)
The road to weirdness (Sep 19)
Affectations (Sep 17)
Wham, bam, thank you Pam ... (Sep 16)
The Man in Black (Sep 15)
Worlds collide (Sep 12)
The Moral Lottery (Sep 10)
The Role Model (Sep 09)
Friday frustrations (Sep 05)
Meanwhile on Planet Whacko (Sep 04)
WTF? (Sep 02)
August 2003
I feel your pain, Parekura (Aug 29)
Surging across the spectrum of news (Aug 28)
Gone missing (Aug 26)
Blood, fury and concussion (Aug 25)
The earth moved (Aug 22)
Creeping chaos (Aug 21)
"We have plunged into darkness" (Aug 20)
On the beaches (Aug 19)
Power and people (Aug 15)
Jonathan, Brian and Hone (Aug 13)
Celebrity (Aug 12)
Risk (Aug 08)
Cans of worms (Aug 06)
Taking care of business (Aug 04)
July 2003
Weighing up (Jul 31)
Balancing acts (Jul 30)
Fare go (Jul 29)
Calling in the experts (Jul 28)
Seriously bad (Jul 25)
Departures (Jul 24)
Dark actors (Jul 22)
Spinning the rates rise (Jul 18)
First things first (Jul 16)
Culinary crimes (Jul 11)
Scoop's scoop (Jul 10)
Winter (Jul 08)
Corngate revisited (Jul 07)
Bad seeds? (Jul 03)
In pictures (Jul 01)
June 2003
Listener up (Jun 30)
Love and war (Jun 27)
Drama and democracy (Jun 26)
The Late Debate (Jun 25)
Moral imperatives (Jun 24)
Dodgernomics (Jun 19)
Philosophy in a bad week (Jun 17)
As desperate as ever (Jun 13)
Just different (Jun 11)
"The worst people in the world" (Jun 10)
Democracy at Ease (Jun 09)
Cracking the ton (Jun 05)
Dutton again (Jun 03)
May 2003
Do the right thing (May 30)
Foreign affairs (May 28)
Sweet! (May 26)
Pique performance (May 23)