Blog Bits
- Liberty Scott responds to No Right Turn on why the regional fuel tax was a bad idea.
- Kiwi Pundit blogs a BBC poll from Iraq where “Eighty-four percent of Iraqis now rate security in their own area positively, nearly double its August 2007 level. Seventy-eight percent say their protection from crime is good, more than double its low. Three-quarters say they can go where they want safely – triple what it’s been.” I seem to recall Obama arguing against the surge saying it would not work.
- David Beatson blogs at Pundit on the latest woes in Corrections.
- Steven Price lambasts the same Corrections Department for their failure to be able to provide basic information under the OIA. They could not even answer the question “How many positive drug tests were there at Auckland prison in the last year” claiming that answering this would require substantial collation or research. This suggests they are either incompetent or lying.
- Not a blog item, but Pauline Hanson’s ex husband has confirmed the photos published are not of her. Hanson may now win the by-election in a sympathy vote.
- Annie Fox proposes a monthly Bloggers Bar Bash in Auckland – the first Thursday of every month starting at 6.30 pm at Galbraiths.
- Stephen Franks proposes that shareholders not Directors should approve Directors Fees.
- Barnsley Bill is suspicious that 11% of The Standard’s Alexa traffic comes from India. I’m not – it is probably just all the call centre staff there who work for NZ companies!
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March 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Barnsley Bill is suspicious that 11% of The Standard’s Alexa traffic comes from India.
According to Alexa, 19.1% of the dimpost traffic is coming from the Netherlands. According to Sitemeter, Alexa is a goddamned liar.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
My understanding is that the surge worked mostly because Shiite militias either killed or forced the Sunni population to move out of Baghdad, which of course led to lower conflict. Thoughts on a postcard?
March 19th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
What Franks is proposing re directors’ fees is on the way to becoming law in Australia. Good on him, hopefully he’ll lead a push for it in NZ… I imagine he’d get the backing of shareholder advocates. There’s absolutely no reason why the Key government shouldn’t follow Australia’s lead on this – they could just about pinch the Bill and put a new cover on it.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
The socialists at the dreadful Standard would sell their souls and do any thing for traffic, so we cannot rule out the possibility.
This is the same site recently labelled “boringly dull” by the Dom Post.
Who knows? Maybe, and in the best Labour Party tradition, they sent Mike Williams to Delhi and Bangalore to arrange a few deals.
March 19th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Rex Wrote “My understanding is that the surge worked mostly because Shiite militias either killed or forced the Sunni population to move out of Baghdad, which of course led to lower conflict. Thoughts on a postcard?”
I’d say the insurgents are probably laying low. Why would they waste time and effort killing (and being killed by) the Yanks, who were always soon to leave when they have a whole country to fight for in a couple of years. Its Vietnam all over again, the US abandons thier mess proclaiming the safety and security of the country they’ve been stuck in for years only for it to end up even worse a year or two after they’ve left.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
DPF, Pauline is not running in a by-election. We are having a state election on Saturday.
[DPF: Dub I knew that if I had paused to think about it]
March 19th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Does the standard blog come from India? That will explain the class system of banning people over at the rather weirdo place.
March 19th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Yeah sorry, much as it sounds like Barnsley is on to a conspiracy, as Danyl says, it’s well known that Alexa is hopeless as a tool, and that’s despite it trying to improve lately.
Now if a webmaster, who ought to know that, were to be promoting his site amd/or selling advertising on the basis of its Alexa rank, then that would be a scandal.
March 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
a BBC poll from Iraq where
I would not trust a BBC poll from Iraq, might as well have been a Fox poll for all thats worth.
March 19th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Somewhere, some poor innocent grandmother, who’s been minding her own business for decades has her life crashing down around her ears……….
…….. simply because she has the misfortune to look similar to Pauline Hanson and made the bad mistake as a teenager of a dirty weekend with a slob named Jack Johnson
March 19th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
“Somewhere, some poor innocent grandmother, who’s been minding her own business for decades has her life crashing down around her ears……….
…….. simply because she has the misfortune to look similar to Pauline Hanson and made the bad mistake as a teenager of a dirty weekend with a slob named Jack Johnson”
If she’s still alive.
And strange no family members are coming forward. Is she even Australian.
I’m really sure the real woman would’ve had the denceny to come forward and declare herself.
This Johnson character wouldn’t have wanted a law suit on his hand.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Somewhere, some poor innocent grandmother, who’s been minding her own business for decades has her life crashing down around her ears……….
Well that assumes that the photographs were taken in the seventies and not much later.
The woman is probably some poor Czech or Hungarian who has never even heard of Pauline Hanson and only has a rough idea where Australia might be in the world and probably couldn’t care less.
March 20th, 2009 at 5:55 am
The VDS was always desperate for any publicity. Looks like there plans for expansion fell through that Labour is as popular as a cup of cold sick.
March 20th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
It looks like Barnsley Bill can’t read or use a google. The answer was already on our site – Alexa is crap… I wrote about its flaws after doing an experiment in December.
http://www.thestandard.org.nz/playing-with-rankings/
All it takes is one person with the Sparky toolbar installed to move the stats.