Well said.

Generally, THE BAR forum was launched to deal with dicussion topics that were not strictly about NZ music. The topics in the bar do not appear in the 'latest posts areas' featured throughout the site so in many ways it's not being pushed to the average site visitor.

However, I think its highly appropriate to be talking about the full range of personal cultures that any fan of music in New Zealand may have developed, including International acts etc etc. I think the bar metaphor works well - in real life: I see friends at a bar, we enjoy the local music scene but more often than not the flavour of conversation is about everything we observe in all cultures around us - local and global.

In fact I think people have not spoken enough lately about one of the key reasons NZ music is doing well ... that is, we have been able to observe and asssimilate both major masses of the music world - Europe and America into the weave of our local flavours. The balance is good and bad sometimes, but it is a key part of creativity here in NZ.

I'm not for one moment suggesting that we talk exclusively about NZ Music ... I was just wondering how others see this whole site. Personally I view it as a site for New Zealanders who are fans of music in general. (Though in truth is seems to focus solely on pop/rock in all their various guises. And that is probably another topic for the Bar) It certainly has provided me with some food for thought (and I'm not just talking about Heather's recent "let them eat cake" topic)

And the less said about the World Cup Cricket shambles the better ... as a selector I think Sir Richard Hadlee makes a damn fine case for the theory that states that just cos you could play the game doesn't mean you can coach/select. Mark Richardson should have been taken to open. Full Stop!!

//just a spur-of-the-moment-sitting-in-IT-being-bored kinda post.//

I wish I had had that kind of IT job ... I never seemed to have enough time to get bored. Though now that I am an IT manager I have plenty of time to check out all the cool stuff on the wonderful interweb thingummywhatsit.

// I am an IT manager

Got any job positions going?

//Got any job positions going?

'fraid not. The company needs to grow a fair bit more before I start taking on IT staff.

speaking of IT, if anyone wants to hook me up with this...

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Makes my ADSL connection seem lame ... but as in all things IT there is no substitute for horsepower ... unlike mainland cheese and a few other things ..........

whats 'it'?

// whats 'it'?

so we're interwebbing in work hours now. nice.

...like, all the way down the end of the desk.

And 3 o'clock in the afternoon? limegreen, what are you doing on a non-work related site?

// I was actually ribbing someone else.

Big-Stu, perchance? Easy to get confused, innit?

// I still fondly remember your white collar target spoof .
// That was a classic post.

aha! cheers mate. Friday afternoon posting mayhem at its best. Actually made me guffaw, as opposed to the usual internal cringe when I re-read, so that's a good sign. That was a hell of a thread actually.

// ...network traffic...

I reckon I'd be well down the list of offenders at this place. You can wander around work here and see people streaming video & radio; there's FTP coming and going 24 hours a day (sending colossal amounts of data); automated log transfers to and from my machine; you name it, we're doing it, and a lot of it. My interwebbing news, music, blog and random (usually nz music inspired) 'fun' sites is but a drop in the ocean.

And work is always an alt-tab away...

//I HAVE that job!!! yay me.

*gets gun* i *almost* hate you for gloating like that niceguyeddie

//And work is always an alt-tab away...

that sounds so depressing. the amount of times i've been caught minimising the windows i shouldnt be in..............crikey

i got busted last year listening to metallica radio - all metallica, all the time. over the interweb. i thought they might be happy because i had found a use for the macs.

That's how I read your name. Since it has the o in the face. It looks like Jennio at a glance.

sorry y, i know i've been stealing some of your posts! :)