Friday night you don't get 7.30 Report, you get StateLine. It's a good listen, but blogging and reading with the TV to your back in the distance, it's hard to get stuff straight and get it down quickly enough.
But they've got Ian Macfarlane on and apparently he's the PM's representative in Queensland. This statement - as I heard it - was not qualified in any way so I don't know in what context, or through what mechanism, he is the PM's representative. He's a personal friend? It's factional? Because he's a minister?
Anyway, the interviewer asks Macfarlane about the process for replacing the recently booted-through-the-back-door Senator Santoro and gets the response, "Oh, that's a question for the Liberal Party."
So, Senator Macfarlane is not a member of the Liberal Party? No, in fact he is. He's a member of the parliamentary rather than organisational wing certainly, but even so, wtf? Obviously the target demographic for StateLine has some fab powers of deduction that take a detour - probably left - around the extensive grounds ("huge tracts of land") of chateau VVB.
But they've got Ian Macfarlane on and apparently he's the PM's representative in Queensland. This statement - as I heard it - was not qualified in any way so I don't know in what context, or through what mechanism, he is the PM's representative. He's a personal friend? It's factional? Because he's a minister?
Anyway, the interviewer asks Macfarlane about the process for replacing the recently booted-through-the-back-door Senator Santoro and gets the response, "Oh, that's a question for the Liberal Party."
So, Senator Macfarlane is not a member of the Liberal Party? No, in fact he is. He's a member of the parliamentary rather than organisational wing certainly, but even so, wtf? Obviously the target demographic for StateLine has some fab powers of deduction that take a detour - probably left - around the extensive grounds ("huge tracts of land") of chateau VVB.
So, have we poor denizens of hacienda VVB been misled (help! help! I've been misled!), or is this just lazy journalism? Or are there some conventions of Parliament of which the poor, misled serfs of el rancho VVB are unaware? (Very likely).
While we're on the subject of the ignorance of your 'umble correspondent, here are a couple of other conundrums which are perplexing us:
- why can I only post a picture to the top of the blog post rather than where the cursor is?
- why doesn't new Blogger "remember me on this computer?"
- when someone posts a comment I get an e-mail version which I have to moderate to publish to the blog. When I've done this, I get another identical e-mail. Why?
Tomorrow, we bottle the Coopers Pale Ale and test the last batch of ginger beer. Yippee! Also, no proofreading. Well, actually there is but it's kind of different.
3 comments:
I can't comment on the Lib's shenanigans in Queensland. (Do they still have Liberals in Queensland?)
But I can suggest a thing or two about the blogger photo thing, if that's handy.
Yes, it's annoying: blogger won't automatically place an uploaded image where the cursor is – it defaults to the top of the page. I simply select (clicking should be enough) the image, and cut and paste it into the spot I actually want it to appear. It's simple, really. Remember to go back and delete the line spaces at the top left by the image...
Warning: The downside is that blogger then goes into a spin and stuff up all my paragraph hard returns in the text (if i've used a text editor to write the post beforehand, usually. I then have to go back and laboriously re-enter the hard returns...
RE: the double emails for posts: you've got moderation on, which means you're notified by email of a comment you have to manually approve or reject. You probably also have the 'new comment posted' alert to email enabled. This means once a comment is published after moderation, you get another alert. You have to go into your settings, I think under the comments/publishing category, and look for where it requests an email address to be used to be notified of a comment being published.
Check if the settings distinguish between the email address used for moderation and for new comments published. If so, turn off or delete the email address for notification of new comments.
The alternative is to turn off moderation, and allow comments to automatically publish (with the visual verification, of course - stops spambots).
You can choose to not publish this comment, if you prefer. I only intended to pass on suggestions re:blogger quirks. Hope they are helpful.
Thanks Mark. Your comments indeed published so that people can see that the 'umble proprietor of VVB is as thick as two short planks and also as a public service to those of similar capability with similar questions. I've tried cut'n paste with photos and to date no luck. I've noticed the predeliction for erasing hard returns previously, I've just stopped bothering. I shall persevere...
Face it Phil, blogger hates you.
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