Te Awamutu Online

I always find it interesting to see what people around the world say about Te Awamutu. Having the Finn connection helps because there's a surprising number of Finn fans who know about our town and even make the pilgrimage here. Occasionally there's the inevitable condescending comment about TA being a hick town but usually people are quite complimentary.

Here's an example I noticed last night. It's a discussion about Crowded House hitting the road. It's a very long page - I found ...

Tags: crowded house, finn, split enz

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Courtesy of NZ On Screen, we have a nice documentary at TATV featuring Neil Finn's 2001 New Zealand tour. During the tour Neil formed a new band at every venue, made up of relatively unknown local talent and brought together in just a few days.

http://www.teawamutu.co.nz/community...Finn-for-a-Day

Tags: finn, music, neil

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Website Updates

It's been about a year since we introduced the new-look TATV. Although the new format has been popular, unfortunately it hasn't quite worked out for us. Amongst other problems, we haven't been able to integrate the registration systems for TATV and the forum in the way we'd hoped. We've been forced to fall back on Plan B, which is to modify the forum so that it can run TATV as well.

The upshot of this is that TATV is changing to be more closely integrated with the forum and blogs. ...

Today's Courier (PDF) features a letter from a local web designer by the name of Scott Elliott, followed by a response from myself. I've pasted them both below (if you've already read them, skip down to the full rebuttal):

I couldn't agree more with David Bowler's front page statement in the Courier last Thursday when he refers to a "third world power supply". However New Zealand is more like a third world country than many residents realise. I'm referring to website development and

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A reunion is being organised for the Te Awamutu College Class of 2000, to be held on the weekend of 16th October 2010. For more details see the Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=148824628370

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