Bitz
April 9th 2009 09:13
Since this blog is suffering a little from good old fashioned attention, I'm going to give it the chance to shine, albeit briefly, by allowing it an opportunity for a razzle-dazzle of totally unrelated Web-bitz.
First up is the intriguing news that a paw paw tree will not produce fruit if it lives alone. Two paw paw trees are required. As one site puts it, with a degree of reticence, I thought: "Two trees are
necessary for pollination reasons. " I'm sure there's a lesson there for us. No one should live alone; no man is an island, and all that sort of thing.
There now, wasn't that dazzling? Okay, well if the prose wasn't, check out the photo by David Resz.
After months of non-appearance, the NZ Edge ezine has suddenly turned up again today. I'm not sure where it's been, and when I go to the site and check out the blog, I see it's still talking about the 'upcoming' NZ election, which happened back in last November. In general this site and its ezine all seem to be struggling a bit for real news. (Rather like this blog.) Or maybe the site just isn't keeping up with the ezine, which is certainly more up to date: Helen Clark's new job is one of its points of interest. Feels to me as though this Edge could do with a bit of sharpening.
However, one thing the ezine did do was lead me onto the NZ On Screen site which is rapidly becoming a great place to find old and archival (if that's not tautological) NZ film material: old TV shows, old promos, 'making of' films, trailers, episodes from series that have never been repeated and much more, all of it with background information galore. I might not be blogging at all at this rate, let alone trying to keep up with my Varsity course, the rehearsals for the play I'm in and everything else (work...?) I've just discovered that the short film 'Bitch' is available for viewing (and unlike some of the other material, is complete). I saw this a while ago on some review of NZ short films. It's a clever piece with neat points of view, and a wacky sense of humour amidst the tragedy.
Well, there we go. Enough razzle for one night.
First up is the intriguing news that a paw paw tree will not produce fruit if it lives alone. Two paw paw trees are required. As one site puts it, with a degree of reticence, I thought: "Two trees are
There now, wasn't that dazzling? Okay, well if the prose wasn't, check out the photo by David Resz.
After months of non-appearance, the NZ Edge ezine has suddenly turned up again today. I'm not sure where it's been, and when I go to the site and check out the blog, I see it's still talking about the 'upcoming' NZ election, which happened back in last November. In general this site and its ezine all seem to be struggling a bit for real news. (Rather like this blog.) Or maybe the site just isn't keeping up with the ezine, which is certainly more up to date: Helen Clark's new job is one of its points of interest. Feels to me as though this Edge could do with a bit of sharpening.
However, one thing the ezine did do was lead me onto the NZ On Screen site which is rapidly becoming a great place to find old and archival (if that's not tautological) NZ film material: old TV shows, old promos, 'making of' films, trailers, episodes from series that have never been repeated and much more, all of it with background information galore. I might not be blogging at all at this rate, let alone trying to keep up with my Varsity course, the rehearsals for the play I'm in and everything else (work...?) I've just discovered that the short film 'Bitch' is available for viewing (and unlike some of the other material, is complete). I saw this a while ago on some review of NZ short films. It's a clever piece with neat points of view, and a wacky sense of humour amidst the tragedy.
Well, there we go. Enough razzle for one night.
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