There is seriously something wrong with the ISP here. This compose page is taking, again, hours to come up, and Vox claims nothing is wrong on its end.
Again, when a compose screen takes hours to emerge, then the inspiration has long passed. For what it’s worth, enjoy these shots of Christchurch from last week.
Inside the Isaac Theatre:
It goes without saying....
I definitely disapprove....
I went don to my mom and dad's neck of the woods(a half hour bus ride) to support the Bazaar that the Civic and Historical Society they belong to(to build a new community centre. They made a lot of money this time around(I bought a few things so helped out that way :) )
Folks, I have a theory.
After asking on Twitter, and using two different ISPs in two different cities, and trialling different browsers, I have found that in New Zealand, I (and one other Twitter friend) cannot reach our Autocade site without the browser coming up with an error asking one to save the page.
However, using a US proxy server, there is no problem, and the page functions normally. It actually opens.
I suspect something is afoot with ISPs in New Zealand blocking certain sites. Can friends reading this confirm this with me, please? The site is autocade.net.
I remember last month there was quite a bit of furore on Twitter when TelstraClear customers could not reach justinflitter.com (since closed). Again, I had no problem accessing Justin’s site via a proxy server. I simply could not reach it from New Zealand, even though Justin is a New Zealander.
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Today, while we were walking, I was thinking of a comment Apolline had left on my Missing Strangers post about social movements and urbanization. We turned a corner and here was exactly what I had been imagining loneliness all together to look like:
Just wading through the reams of media coverage I've been collecting on Bright Star since it first premiered in Cannes in May and I came across this interview with Ben Whishaw.
It's probably the most relaxed I've seen him in an interview, normally he just comes across as a bag of nervous tension. In it he just oozes with enthusiasm for the role and experience of making it in a way I haven't seen from him before.
Just want to ruffle his hair, pinch his cheeks and give him a large slice of cake to eat.
(Interview is in two parts)
- 23:50 The White Ribbon: an amazing piece of cinema. Best thing I've seen in long time. Have never known a cinema so silent at end of a film. #
- 23:52 Too tired to go to bed. Think I'll just curl up here on the sofa. #
- 08:14 Canny marketing from Muse. Just as they round off their London dates at O2 announce a Wembley date for next year bit.ly/jYlaL #
- 09:40 Time for pancakes. Or is that pancake time? #
- 11:31 Just finished editing my pics from the Muse O2 gig on Thurs bit.ly/1ogAoN #
- 13:09 Absolutely not getting out of my jimmy-jams until it stops raining. So there. #
- 16:50 Tweeting for 1 year, 6 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours, 37 minutes, 14 seconds (April 25, 2008). How about you? bit.ly/eC942 #
- 17:41 @polyg I nearly got a free ticket to see that tomorrow. Sadly they over allocated :0( Will go and see it though. #
- 17:45 @electricfields Perhaps your body has gone travelling to another time zone #
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A nice article appears on Monitor Mix Blog about the effects of balancing, sanitizing, and loudifying the music we listen to. I think some similar conversations were had re: dynamic range when vinyl began to be replaced by tape. You know how all the songs begin to sound the same? You know how monotonous pop music becomes? Yeah. Perhaps we need to leave in the (very human) mistakes. Artists and engineers need to work together to make the product, and not work at cross-purposes to satisfy the suits and bean counters.
Well, yesterday we finally got son's 1st quarter Japanese grade, an 'A', the first he's gotten in the subject. After all the years of hectoring from his mother, you'd think she'd have said something -like 'Hey, you did it, I knew could!'. Nope, which did not go unnoticed by son. So the box score is 1 'B' and the rest, 'A's'. Almost night and day from his junior year performance, which wasn't horrible, but was desultory. Its sobering to realize that may have been influenced by my own unemployed and at home situation.
I 'get' the why's of lack of fulsome praise from his mother and in general why Asian parents don't jump up and down for joy when their children bring home outstanding academic reports; its 当り前. But this isn't Asia, as I have reminded his mother and that it wouldn't hurt to show son how pleased you are with his school work. The reaction to that has been along the lines of 'so he should be praised for even having a successful bowel movement?'
One of the many things I have learned in life is, life is a matter of balances and that sure any parent especially one suffering from 親ばか can go overboard with the praise for children. On the other hand, culture aside, people are people and a good word after some good performance won't bring the world order down either.
Have always wondered how healthy the reluctance of Japanese/Asian parents to show some outward joy and appreciation of their children's' performance to their children really is and how such affects personality?
A bit of canny marketing from the Devon lads, while I'm still buzzing from the O2 gig on Thursday I get an email announcing a Wembley date for next year. Tickets go on sale next week, you know I'm gonna...
Meanwhile here are all the pics from Thurs:
