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Yarrows Bakery in Manaia

If you ever are passing through Manaia, (on the surf highway (57)) make sure you stop at the yarrows bakery there. Its utterly fantastic.

Koha Foundation?

John has done a good post about how a Koha foundation might work. Have a read and see what you think.

Are you pregnant or did you just eat a baby?

Heres an invention to help people out of the dilemna of having to decide if someone is pregnant or not, and whether to offer her a seat.
Badges!!.

Or you could just be polite and offer them a seat anyway … unless of course you are sure they are a BABY EATER.

This has been annoying me immensely lately. I have gotten into quite a few arguments with people, particularly to do with the Middle east. Mainly because people seem utterly unable to comprehend that no one is right.
The debate, and it seems a trend on lot of issues, is so utterly polarised, people are so sure their stance is the right one and that there is no possibility of the other side having any valid points.

So you get people who are otherwise rational saying things like I’m 100% behind Israel … anyone who is 100% behind a country is either a moron or delusional.
The only thing im ever 100% sure about is that fanatics and zealots on either side are 100% arsehats

Cool art and interconnectivity

My friend Douglas is in San Jose at the moment at ZeroOne San Jose.
He’s exhibiting his cloud classifier and his film making robot. You can read a brief bio here

20 week scan

Well we had the 20 week scan today, everything looks fine, the nurse wasnt worried about anything. But little crayon was being his squirmy self so she couldnt get a clear enough view to see for sure if its boy or girl. At least thats what she said at the end, but Laurel and I harbour suspicions she forgot to look.

We have another scan at 24, just to check the heart (it all looked good today) because Laurel has a bit of family history of heart issues. Pretty low risk though. So hopefully then we will find out the sex.

Working from the Railway Station

This morning I dropped Alex down to the ferry at around 7.30am … then I had a meeting a the railway station at 10.30am. So instead of fighting my way back home through the traffic I just found a park near the railway station and went into Trax cafe. Thanks to Cafenet I’m able to work just fine from here. So im on a big couch with a coffee using the cafenet connection to work.

Playing tour guide

We spent the day today showing Alex (a friend of a friend from New Jersey) around Wellington. It was pretty crappy weather so we did mostly indoor things. Starting with lunch at some french cafe on Cuba street that I can’t recall the name of, it was damn good though. Then we got some dessert from Dorothys and went to look around the City Gallery. After that we went to the Town hall to listen to a free pipe organ recital. To finish off we went to the tasting room for dinner.

Pandora

I read an entry on David Bigwood’s Blog about Pandora and determined to try it out.

Its really really kinda neat. You might notice at the bottom of the righthand sidebar it has the songs I’ve bookmarked so far. If you have some bandwidth to burn and like finding new music. Give it a whirl.

Yay its friday

It’s been quite a long week this week, and I’m looking forward to the weekend. We have a friend of a friend arriving from New Jersey via Australia on Saturday. So we get to play tourguide for a bit, which is often fun.
This evening we have an exhibition opening, and an exhibition closing to go to (no not the same one). And then tomorrow another exbition opening. Plus the Air New Zealand cup kicks off tonight and the All Blacks play the Wallabies tomorrow. So It’s going to be a full on weekend too by the looks of it.

I hope to have a little time clear to do some installation and testing of the dev_week Koha code. We’ll see, I said that last weekend too 🙂

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