Catching Up?

Obviously someone is catching up with some reading on my file sharing site.  Since Sam shared the library website for reading the paper I haven’t had the current ones viewed.  I won’t bother uploading them anymore.  The irony is that it has finally become a normal part of my day, not any more!

You can read back issues on the library website but I had problems initially.  I could view the current issue but the calendar feature didn’t function.  I like using Google Chrome (for the kids) but that was the problem.  Use Mozilla Firefox and it’s fully functional.  I don’t like change but slowly I am adjusting to using Firefox as my primary browser.

Copyright

Why would you not want a 'thank you' circulated? Strange to me.

I thought this ‘copyright’ may continue and was actually hoping it would.  In the ensuing week of waiting for the next Beacon I was rapt I wouldn’t feel obliged to keep scanning them.  For now I will chuck them in a file but I’m flat out and have better things to do.  You could ask the editor’s to send it to you or comment here and I will try to oblige if time permits.  Need to be simplifying my life.  It starts with things that are not (and never have been) my job.  Sorry to those that read them so often but four kids and a home come first.

 

Sorted

Been having a problem with the library website, sorted now and letters to the editor are online for April.

The latest Bluff Beacon is out and after last week’s Bluff Beacon 2012 copyright, I was expecting it to be ongoing.  I don’t see any copyright on this weeks but the suggestion has made me wonder why I bother or why I should?  It is a busy time for me now with the oyster festival fast approaching so don’t expect it online with any regularity or at all.  If you want it…you may have to ask.  As always the comments feature is ON:-)

April Fool’s Day

It would be too obvious to rant about our Bluff elected fools today of all days.

I have set up another link on the right for letters to the editor for April and I can only hope it will be the last month I feel compelled to do it.  More people have found the blog lately because it seems I’m about the only information on the ‘net regarding FHWF.  By default more people have linked to my Keep and Share site and views have been over 1,000 in a few days.

Nice to see I’m being used but it would be nice to get feedback:-)

Sussed It!

All the voyuers out there aren’t much help (Sam excluded).  I was moaning that a text version of the letters to the editor was going to do my head in.  I wanted it to look like it does when printed in the paper.  I’ve found that all I had to do was select ‘in graphic’ when printing it.  I then get a newspaper look version for printing.  Thanks to the freebie program I installed ages ago (and re-installed when my other PC died) I then ‘print’ as a PDF.  CutePDF is a lifesaver on some things that don’t allow you to save but you can print.  It’s added as a printer but prints to file.  Technology is so cool!

I’ll redo the ones I printed in text and all will be right with the world….ahhhh

Reducing My Workload

Thanks to Sam sharing this link to the Southland Times (and ever other paper) I am now able to reduce my workload.  The letters to the editor are now a PDF print version of the letters.  It does my head in because I prefer it to be the actual clipping (or at least the same format) from the paper but I have too much to do.  So at least they will still be able to be read by those further afield.

In light of the online access to the paper I will be reconsidering the need to upload them at all…unless someone can argue the need to continue.  If Invercargill offers this surely every other library does and with residents legislated to have free membership at their local library there shouldn’t be a need for me to continue.  For now I will.

Catch Up

Sorry, I haven’t even got Saturday’s letters to the editor online and today’s paper is still lying in the front yard.   My mind is easily distracted and some things seem insignificant at times.  As always though if you need (or want) them online and I haven’t done it, feel free to email me (c.teau@woosh.co.nz) and I’ll get right on to it.  I’m always curious who  is utilising the letters.

C’mon Southland Times

I am assuming someone has just found my collection of letters to the editor and is catching up (or looking for something) but even on a normal day Keep and Share is predominantly used for letters and Beacons.  This is excessive, it’s usually intermingled with agendas and tabled documents but not today!  BTW, ignore the time and day, need to change it from USA timezone.

Three Bin System – Inconsistent Decision

In my tidying I’ve come across a tabled document relating to the three bin system and that inconsistent decision that seemed to annoy Greenwood so much.

Oddity Uploads

I’ve been sorting through a file box labelled Pool and as a result there are a lot of new oddity pages relating to it in the Bluff folder on Keep and Share.  I didn’t want to get rid of them so it’s easier to scan and upload (because I can never remember where I file the hard copies).  It is the bits and bobs I came across and led me to form the view that the Board are collectively (and in some cases individually) morons and not serving the community (or pool) well.

It includes The Lighthouse and other bits you should be able to identify by the upload date (3 March 2012) after the file name.

Amongst it was two Beacons (1298 and 1300).  1298 has my response to earlier (orchestrated?) letters to the Beacon chastising Nolan Henigan’s letter.  Both the Beacon and Board responded to mine.  Interesting that the Board response claims they inspired 350 odd submissions to council….lol.

I requested a hard copy of all submissions on the LTCCP, a council staff member delivered them when in Bluff and I went through each one.  I counted how many from Bluff and Invercargill that commented on the pool and whether they were pro or not.  I compiled the numbers and sent a copy to Jan.  This is the figure she is using and it includes the likes of my submission which opposed the Board – ah, community board spin – you’ve gotta laugh or else you’d cry (or start a blog).