Archive for March, 2006

Starving kids

Theres been lots of ads on TV lately, you know the ones, “a starving kid in Africa waits” etc. I was thinking, I wish someone would come out and say ‘Look us westerners screwed up their continent, the least we can do is feed the little buggers’. Id donate to that charity. Related Posts:No Related [...]

Posted on March 28, 2006 at 12:27 pm by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Koha Conference France 2006

The Inaugural Koha Conference is in Paris this year. Russ and I are going over to represent the NZ Koha crew. You can read all about it on the koha site. Koha Related Posts:No Related Posts

Posted on March 27, 2006 at 12:53 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Deadwood

I got this series out on  DVD from fatso.co.nz. Its a good watch, HBO are coming out with some interesting shows at the moment, as they aren’t crippled with the fascist censorship rules that the networks in the US. Related Posts:No Related Posts

Posted on March 13, 2006 at 9:17 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Weird hard to reproduce bug

So Joshua and I spent a good chunk of today trying to fix a bug that we can only readily reproduce on one machine. Its very odd, but we think we have narrowed it down to one place to look. Something mental happens if the 856 tag is filled in. I maintain MARC is weird [...]

Posted on March 9, 2006 at 11:33 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Census Night tonight

So tonight is the census, everyone in NZ has to fill out a form. A pretty stupid form that makes a lot of false assumptions. No one under 15 smokes No one under 15 works Which are both demonstratibly false. But oh well, its just lies^H^H^H^H statistics. UPDATE 2006/03/07: Officially counted Ok Ive filled in [...]

Posted on March 7, 2006 at 11:24 pm by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Spicy Lamb sausages

I had a fantastic spicy lamb sausage at the Newtown fair today. No idea who made it, I bought it of some indian guy who was barbequeing them. The fair was pretty good, lots of great food, a couple of good bands and some interesting stalls. Related Posts:No Related Posts

Posted on March 6, 2006 at 11:28 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Battalion

We went to see Battalion last night. It was excellent, if you can manage to get tickets to any of their remaining shows, grab them and go. Related Posts:No Related Posts

Posted on March 3, 2006 at 10:48 pm by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Arsehats of the Month

Anyone campaigning for a New Zealander category on the ethnicity question on the Census. New Zealander is your Nationality you crazy retards. Everyone who is a citizen of NZ is a New Zealander. They arent all the same ethnicity. If I go live in India, does that make me of Indian ethnicity? Of course it [...]

Posted on March 2, 2006 at 9:22 am by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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MMMM Elixir

I knew chocolate milk was good, heres the href=”http://bigballofwax.co.nz/cgi-bin/blosxom?redirectURL=http://stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3586454a7144,00.html” onMouseOver=”window.status=’to stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3586454a7144,00.html’; return true;” onMouseOut=”window.status=”; return true;”>proof. Related Posts:No Related Posts

Posted on March 1, 2006 at 12:59 pm by Chris · Permalink · Leave a comment
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