Parliament to be on Freeview

Live broadcasts of all sessions of Parliament, including question time, debates, matters of urgency and out-of-hours sessions will be broadcast on Freeview's Parliament TV channel, Freeview announced today.

“We have made the feeds of live coverage from the debating chamber available to all broadcasters but have always wanted as many viewers as possible to see the full, unedited debates," the Speaker, Margaret Wilson, said today.

Steve Browning, Freeview's general manager, says Parliament TV takes Freeview's digital offerings to a total of 11 services. These include TVONE, TV2, TV3, C4, Maori Television, Radio NZ National and Concert, and TVNZ Sport Extra.

41,000 households are currently receiving free-to-air digital satellite reception, he says.

Source: Computerworld [http://computerworld.co.nz/]

FIRE FIRE FIRE

I seem to be seeing lots of fire trucks lately, the other day when i was in Manukau there was a car on fire i didn't have time to grab a pic :( , and today while outside the US Consulate about to go get my fingerprints scaned 4 fire trucks pulled up, but went to the building across the street which i did have my phone handy to grab some pics. Hmmm dumb slow blog site only letting me upload 1 picture to this post, oh well that will do.

Microsoft = FAIL

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6998272.stm

Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.

The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007 is passed today

The ‘Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007’ was passed in February 2007 and will come into effect on the 5th of September 2007. The Act defines spam as ‘unsolicited commercial electronic messages’.

The purposes of the Act are to:

* Prohibit unsolicited commercial electronic messages (spam) with a New Zealand link (i.e. messages sent to, from or within New Zealand)

* Require commercial electronic messages to include accurate information about the person who authorised the sending of the message and a functional unsubscribe facility to enable the recipient to instruct the sender that no further messages are to be sent to the recipient

* Prohibit address-harvesting software being used to create address lists for sending unsolicited commercial electronic messages

* Deter people from using information and communication technologies inappropriately.

The Act is also intended to encourage good direct marketing practice by:

* Requiring electronic messages to contain a functioning unsubscribe facility

* Ensuring electronic messages are sent only to customers who have consented to receiving it

* Restricting the use of address-harvesting software.

The Act covers email, instant messaging, SMS and MMS (text and image-based mobile phone messaging) of a commercial nature. It does not cover faxes, Internet pop-ups or voice telemarketing.

Source: Department of Internal Affairs [http://www.dia.govt.nz/]

The "race" to park a car

Lets see how fast you can park a car
Completely blown away by how fast this car was parked - was like OMFG!
He's the link http://www.jaggle.nl/index.php/site/comments/inparkeren1/

Gummy Bear

You will need sound for this one :-)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oGUYrXn_xnI

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Sheep & The Truck

What Happens Next?
Today while out shooting ARHP pics we came across some sheep that had escaped through the fence and were out on the road, they ran away down the road, that was at like 3pm hehe and then at 9pm when i drove past they were still out on the road... poor little sheeps i was gonna stop and get night pics but didn't bother, they looked sad as i zoomed by.