This is the route to take. The Evans Pass climb is steep but not brutal

I wonder what the APA referencing is for a skeet … and whether Morgan has used the word ‘ghoul’ anywhere in his thesis

Oh I don’t know … at least we can be reassured the banks, supermarkets and power companies will still continue to post record profits, even if the stock market melts down

5G is really just an evolution of good old 4G, so the coverage should be the same - except for the super fast mmWave stuff, which is so short-range you damn near have to be in the same room. And as I recall, the 4G coverage should be the about same as 3G

“When people kept saying FAFO to me I just thought, maybe that’s the order of the letters in the alphabet”, says perpetually puzzled Minister

A government once again surprised and caught out by the previously unknown linkage between cause and effect

Of course, I’ll always bow to the superior knowledge and Jedi-level skill of @norightturnnz.bsky.social, who probably knows more about the OIA than all the rest of us put together

But on the other side of the coin, I’ve found MoH and NZTA to be very narrow and legalistic in the way they interpret requests, so I have to go back again and again to get the full set of documents - and for those guys, asking for a CMS listing has been a useful tool

And the technique isn’t needed if the agency is being helpful - in my experience the Commerce Commission OIA team is brilliant at helping me formulate requests and answering them in an inclusive way, to try and get everything I’m hunting for

It’s not so much about getting an exhaustive list as understanding the full range of documents that are available about the subject - which can be really useful if you’re not familiar with agency processes

And just following on from Eddie’s discussion re OIA, I’ve found that a very useful first step is to OIA the list of all documents held by the agency in their document management system containing the words you’re interested in. It’s very effective at building the shopping list

It’s also proven from 40 years of natural experiments that tinfoil hat wearing has a strong negative correlation with cognitive function

It’s not just Janet that’s unhappy, in fairness

The purpose of using holy water is so the qualified blessologist can meet God considerably earlier than would otherwise be the case

Yes - and it’s exactly the same here. Westpac puts up its profits 13% and ANZ puts up its profits by 21% in the middle of the worst recession in a generation - just because they can

We come for the woodworking and cable management, but we stay for the puns

This government has continued to be caught unawares by the link between cause and effect