In all the iPhone vs Samsung press war its a shame real phones don't get mentioned more

Per These Leaked CES Pics, Sony Is Actually Capable Of Making A Memorable Android Phone

I've got an Xperia SL - kicks the pants off an iPhone 5 or Samsung s3 but at $nz 500 it's also only half the price!

My new years resolution

Resolution

IRD Secure Site Still Down

Given the penalties and short shrift given to the general public by the IRD if we ever have the temerity to be late with a return or payment; or worse make a mistake - the least they could do is have a working website. If our site goes down for an hour my ass is on the line; one that has been down for over a week is a disgrace. IRD get your **** together, please. Just a shame I can't invoice you for all my time you are wasting through your ineffectiveness.

So where is the Greens response?

How about getting HER fixed?

One of my pet peeves with the Green Party within New Zealand is their continued lack of response let alone leadership on the worlds largest environmental issue.

They seem to be able to propose measures like killing 25 percent of the countries cows - yet when it comes to the root causes like over breeding they are spineless and silent at best.

At worst they generally support this type of activity belying their true communist roots and exposing their green facade for what it is - facile and disposable.

Blissful ignorance

The iMac In A World Of MacBooks On The Brink Of iPads

This "tech" post encapsulates so many of my pet peeves with the Apple / Mac love fest its actually quite amusing.
However the "tech writer" manages to encapsulate it all in one quote:

"Another element the iMac gives you that a MacBook does not (at least not yet) is the option for a “Fusion Drive”. Marketing terms aside, this is a great method of compromise that Apple has come up with. Essentially, you have both a solid-state flash drive and a traditional hard drive in the machine, and software found in a slightly altered version of OS X Mountain Lion determines what data should go where automatically (based on your usage). This allows you to have the speed of SSD with the storage volumes of a regular hard drive."

You see hybrid hard drives (as they are generally known) have been around since Seagate released them in October 2006. And yes that 6 is not a typo. This tech is actually older than Facebook (literally) but because it's got an apple on it it's suddenly hot. To twits like this anyway...

Brilliant backup service with a fatal flaw

SocialSafe, The Social Media Back-Up Tool, Raises $400K To Out-Archive Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

Socialsafe is providing a fantastic service for anyone conscious that they might like to actually find that tweet or post about when their child's first tooth was. Especially when said child gets old enough to ask about things like that (typically when they have kids, so ask yourself how soon you want that to be...)

However I do have one major beef with it - the client is written in Adobe Air - which might not mean alot to most people. But this is a language / framework that has already begun to be deprecated (ie killed but in a progressive slow fashion) by its only maintainer Adobe.  So I have to question - why would you backup your social life using a tool that's already dead?

Systematic

Systematic

Headdesk

Headdesk

A good question

A good question

In that the answer is "because it's a bloody stupid law". And just because something is law doesn't make it right.

A sacrificial public servant

A sacrificial public servant

Lawless farmers

Lawless farmers

Savita's law

Savita's law

Big brother is watching you

Big Brother is watching you

Green logic

Govt to hike petrol taxes and road user charges 9 cents over three years to pay for 'roads of national significance'

Only the Greens could reason that increasing taxes on petrol results in locking more people into a car dependent lifestyle.  While I can understand them decrying building of motorways as a philosophical standpoint to suggest that using petrol taxes to do so is a bad thing just demonstrates the total mess this country will be in if they ever have a genuine say in running it.

The ministry of education gets a spanking

The Ministry of Education gets a spanking

The HYEFU

The HYEFU

Compensation for rendition

http://norightturn.blogspot.co.nz/2012/12/compensation-for-rendition.html

The end of an era

The end of an era

Reported back

Reported back

NRTR

"The Government actually doesn't care about Kim Dotcom"

Alright - in the past I've always been frustrated by No Right Turns no comments policy, so from now on I'll try to create a post for every article to allow conversation to occur
Let loose people :D