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Public Address 11&12/11/04 - Madness And Drama

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PUBLIC ADDRESS 12/11/04 - Still on the wires

Still on the wires | Nov 12, 2004 09:40
Russell Brown's Hard News

A little more comment on yesterday's broadband post: although I felt that the view advanced in Telecom's keynote presentation at the Tuanz conference - it's not the network, it's the content - ran way too close to saying "it's all your fault, you ninnies", I was at the same time...
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If you see just one movie this year.... | Nov 11, 2004 15:52
David Slack on his own account

You can generally rely on Brian Rudman to smoke out a secret and get it to hang its sorrowful head in front of us all. So what a surprise to see him baldly declare last week that he knows an especially good one and won't tell...
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Past, present, future | Nov 11, 2004 13:26
Graham Reid's many things

Journalists are rarely given the gift of prophesy. And like some Alice in Wonderland character they are always running twice as fast just to keep up with current events. The luxury of second-guessing the future generally falls on columnists...
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PUBLIC ADDRESS 11/11/04 - Madness And Drama

It would be madness | Nov 11, 2004 12:03
Russell Brown's Hard News

When a Ministry of Research, Science and Technology discussion paper earlier this year recommended that the government provide at least part of the funding for a gigabit-speed Advanced Network, it seemed hopeful news indeed...
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Drama? What drama? | Nov 10, 2004 22:46
Fiona Rae from the couch

I arrived fashionably late at TVNZ's launch of its 2005 season programmes, which is just a euphemism for a) I went to the wrong place first (note to self: read invitations before setting out); and b) parking about a mile away from the Maidment Theatre, where the launch was actually…
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Also, readers in or near Auckland may wish to note that Public Address is presenting the second Flying Nun Pub Quiz on occasion of the release of the Second Season DVD compilation, on Wednesday November 24, at the King's Arms, from 8pm. Further details are in the ad displaying on Hard News and other pages, via which you can also enter to win copies of the DVD. It will be very good fun and you should feel free to join us on the night, when the good folk of Flying Nun will be distributing some very festive prizes.

Cheers, RB.

ENDS

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