Andrew Joll

(speaking as someone who has no idea where Newmarket is, and has a ten minute commute...)

Oh that's a bit rough. It's still Auckland!

Oh it's all just BS at this point. The IDF aren't even trying to hide the genocide endgame, and it's obvious even they don't even believe the crap they spout. If one reporter was part of Hamas, what about the other four? Or the more than 200 others murdered in earlier attacks?

Oops, that'll teach me to read one post in isolation without seeing what else you posted this morning! Get well soon, and hope Dylan makes a good job of those scones! I trust he's coming home at lunchtime to make sure you have sufficient tea?

Do you deliver?

They've already flagged some changes to things like how it's administered, and Stuff/Three mentioned weight as a factor (but then proceeded to just calculate under the current system!). I think it's too early for anything close to a concrete comparison.

Agree it'd be interesting to see the 31/5 debt in prior years to get some comparison. The 2025 figure will include GST that was only three weeks overdue (1/2 to 31/3 due 7/5) and PAYE that was about six weeks over, so for GST especially it could be firmly in the "forgot to pay" camp.

Looks to still be based on the current system, and what's with this colour scheme?

Is it flat rate?

Premium only, but I take it from comments here that it doesn't account for weight.

The IRD info shows the aging of the 31/5/25 outstanding balance. Yes, it is entirely expected that more recent years have more debt, as businesses with outstanding balances will pay the older ones first.

It doesn't say anything about how 2025 compares to 2020, only that there is more newer than older debt, which you'd expect.

That is not what the table is saying at all. Those are 31/5/25 balances broken down by year, not year end balances. So of $3.7b outstanding, $1.4b is from 2025, $900m from 2024 etc.

I still have a couple of USR Sportsters out in the workshop, but even if someone spun up a Total Control we'd have to be in the same building!

The only two clients I have still using fax (lawyer, vet) have been VoIP with fax-email gateways for years now. Pacnet is gone. Even for vintage BBSing you'd use a network FOSSIL not a modem!

Yup. Our local exchange closed down a few years before we got fibre in 2018 (it was small and had been a slave off Invercargill for years) and we were migrated to baseband - VoIP to the cabinet, copper pair from there. The other, larger IVC exchanges like South, Central, East etc are also long gone.

Most POTS was moved to baseband from cabinets not real pairs back to exchanges years ago. I know Spark are shutting down the last few exchanges soon, if not already.

I tried Copilot and it got it right. I then mentioned ChatGPT's error, and it came up with some info about hallucinations. I then asked it to give me a map of NZ with the regions marked.

Oh dear. It was doing so well there for a moment. At least it got Southland right.

The Joll cats. Arlo on the left is a six month old silver tabby Maine Coon kitten. Slinky on the right is around eight months old, and looks all black here but he has a patch of white on his belly that you can't see - like white pubes. Arlo is a lot bigger even though he's younger. They are looking at each other and you can sense the tension.

Now it's the process of trying to convince Arlo (6mo) and Slinky (around 8mo, his paperwork is inconsistent) to get along. There was some silence for a bit this evening. That is hopefully a good sign!

It has been a sad, happy and currently hissy/growly year for the Joll felines. We lost Katie at 14 in February to heart disease. Got Arlo the Maine Coon in May. Lost Diva at 18 last month to kidney failure and skin cancer. Got Slinky the almost void rescue yesterday.

...but it was such great reading. Eventually we got David Reid, it became Dick Smith, and then Jaycar took over the store, but those memories. Jaycar's catalogue is different to those old 80s Dick Smith ones but still great to flick through.

I remember the thrill of the new Dick Smith catalogue coming in the mail when I was a kid. Sure, initially we only had Southland Switchboards' wall of components, stopping in to David Reid in Dunedin on the way up to see gran in Oamaru at new year's, and Dick Smith was mail order out of Auckland...

I got "stupid circuits built without a PCB" for a while but haven't seen them for ages. It's a mix of cat videos, really stupid DIY "hacks" and recording techniques in the random stuff these days. Then again I didn't get all the scammy crap that Dylan got either.

Arlo the Maine Coon kitten, stretched out. He's a silver tabby with a big fluffy tail and sheep-like tummy fur that is exceedingly pattable.

Similar issue here, except he's a six month old Maine Coon kitten who is larger and heavier than any adult cat we've ever had, so it can be physically impossible to move under that weight. Send help!

I'll just stick to Premiere CS6 to top and tail my VHS transfers....and crop out the head switching noise.

a group of people are standing in front of a sign that says whalers of the sea of tranquility ALT: a group of people are standing in front of a sign that says whalers of the sea of tranquility

What will the whalers think?

The cover of King's X's debut album, Out Of The Silent Planet.

There were a few good ones for me too, but looking back this was probably about the best. Others I can think of had a few good tracks (In Living Color: Vivid), or were more of their time pop (Look Sharp, still don't mind a bit of Roxette) but this still holds its own when listening today.

EDP seems pretty solid, and they've explicitly linked it to the same data protection obligations as Exchange and SharePoint so it looks to me like they're serious.

Crazy busy here still.

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