# Re: Happy New Year **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [December 31, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/re-happy-new-year/22094 "2011-12-31T19:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
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Happy New Year, Scott! I definitely hope 2012 is more stable! : ) – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
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Talking about the year, or GroupWise? ## And a happy new year from Denmark as well Tommy ---
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Susan wrote: [color=blue] > Happy New Year, Scott! I definitely hope 2012 is more stable! : )[/color] 🙂 Yup, had enough earth moving excitement for a lifetime 🙂 ---
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:05:10 GMT “Scott Campbell” [potato@potato.potato](mailto:potato@potato.potato) wrote: [color=blue] > Susan wrote: > [color=green] > > > Happy New Year, Scott! I definitely hope 2012 is more stable! : )[/color] > > 🙂 Yup, had enough earth moving excitement for a lifetime :)[/color] Hey, no luck with the New Year’s wish huh ☹ – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.1 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop up 1 day 3:38, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.05 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU ---
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malcolmlewis wrote: [color=blue] > Hey, no luck with the New Year’s wish huh :([/color] Yeah, two significant ones in the last 24 hours ☹ And a little too close for comfort. But hey, didn’t loose power yesterday, lost it for only a couple of hours this morning - annoying but not too much of a drama 🙂 ---
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:11:52 +0000, Scott Campbell wrote: [color=blue] > malcolmlewis wrote: > [color=green] > > > Hey, no luck with the New Year’s wish huh :([/color] > > Yeah, two significant ones in the last 24 hours ☹ And a little too > close for comfort. > > But hey, didn’t loose power yesterday, lost it for only a couple of > hours this morning - annoying but not too much of a drama :-)[/color] Seems even earthquakes get old after awhile. Eh? ---
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Bob Crandell wrote: [color=blue] > Seems even earthquakes get old after awhile. Eh?[/color] Oh, well and truely over them. Bottom graph is from Sept 2010 through to now shows how busy its been [http://quake3.crowe.co.nz/](http://quake3.crowe.co.nz/) It did seem to be settling down, September through to December. On the plus side, it sounds like its expected to create 30,000 new job opportunities through 2012-2013. ---
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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:48:02 +0000, Scott Campbell wrote: [color=blue] > Bob Crandell wrote: > [color=green] > > > Seems even earthquakes get old after awhile. Eh?[/color] > > Oh, well and truely over them. > > Bottom graph is from Sept 2010 through to now shows how busy its been > [http://quake3.crowe.co.nz/](http://quake3.crowe.co.nz/) > It did seem to be settling down, September through to December. > > On the plus side, it sounds like its expected to create 30,000 new job > opportunities through 2012-2013.[/color] It had to take a rest sometime. Hopefully manufacturing is part of plus seeing as how that’s an economy’s base. The old cloud with a silver lining thing. ---
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Bob Crandell wrote: [color=blue] > It had to take a rest sometime.[/color] Take a rest, or lull us in to a false sense of security 😉 [color=blue] > Hopefully manufacturing is part of plus seeing as how that’s an > economy’s base.[/color] Predominantly ‘short-term’ work, the vast majority being construction - buildings / roads / sewers / water + staff needed to support them. There will be a flow on to manufacturing but I doubt it will be sustainable. I believe the lions share of government/regional council work is supposed to be completed within five years, the balance within ten. Even though it is relatively short term work, it should be enough to drive economic recovery in the area and make Christchurch an attractive place for businesses to invest/continue to invest. ---
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:11:52 GMT “Scott Campbell” [potato@potato.potato](mailto:potato@potato.potato) wrote: [color=blue] > malcolmlewis wrote: > [color=green] > > > Hey, no luck with the New Year’s wish huh :([/color] > > Yeah, two significant ones in the last 24 hours ☹ And a little too > close for comfort. > > But hey, didn’t loose power yesterday, lost it for only a couple of > hours this morning - annoying but not too much of a drama 🙂 > > [/color] > Looks like even the ground is upset about Marryatt’s pay rise… > that’s another 4.8 at 8:28 am… – Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890) openSUSE 12.1 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop up 1 day 16:10, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.10, 0.07 CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU ---
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malcolmlewis wrote: [color=blue] > Looks like even the ground is upset about Marryatt’s pay rise…[/color] It makes me very angry with statements such as “It is sheer arrogance. There seems to be no understanding of what people have gone through”. It just shows the absolute cluelessness. I have no problem with him getting a pay rise to bring him up to comparable rates, and I strongly believe that given unusual circumstances that overall the council have done a remarkable job - and without leadership I doubt there would have been enough cohesion to bring basic services back on line relatively promptly. Response time has decreased with each event, the responses have improved as more and more resources are available. The person leading this issue is trying to grab headlines again, combined with certain members of the community taking the opportunity when snap decisions have to be made to pursue their vendettas. It’s disappointing. In these situations, no matter who is in charge they are going to be damned for their decisions, someone will always be unhappy. Could the pay rise have been handled better, yes, definitely. [color=blue] > that’s another 4.8 at 8:28 am…[/color] Didn’t feel that one - think I was cycling at the time - but there was a nice 5 earlier on today.