This article is hilarious for so many reasons, perhaps none of which the Herald intentioned, but the all-time best part is:

TVNZ spokeswoman Megan Richards said the broadcaster had a policy of trying to match sound between ads and programmes - but said it was difficult to test sound compression with the network's current equipment.

Okay, so apparently TVNZ does not have a computer capable of downloading a program that weighs in at a massive 2.13 megabytes that will run fine on Windows 98... I mean, with all the tax cuts and shit going on, it must be hard measuring the dynamic range of a 30 second piece of music. BUT...to be fair, it takes me, an independent, amateur musician a whole minute or so to work out the average RMS decibel value of a song, so how can we expect a government-owned commercial media enterprise to be able to work this out in time for a statement for a newspaper that only comes out once a week!?

Spokespeople should check their information before making stupid announcements about not being able to tell whether the ads are louder than the shows they interrupt, when it's been a problem I've been fighting since I was a kid, even if then I'd no idea why they were so loud, they just were.

I took loads of photos of Tariqa today, only about 200 or so, I think she looked hot in about 100 of them, but it's not up to me which ones she likes.