Laurel left today, to visit with her brothers on the way to meeting me in
France in early may. One of the reasons she is visiting LA on the way is
(apart from visiting her family of course) is to go to Coachella. I’m sure she will have a great
time.
UPDATE 2006/04/18: Shes landed
Laurel has just called to let me know shes arrived in LA
Well it is dead on my laptop, it was close enough to linux but different
enough to annoy the hell out of me, so its gone. Back to linux I go.
You’ll notice that on the left nav now there is now a list of the most
listened to artists of last week. It should automagically update each week.
Well in the roof actually, we had the roof repaired which seems to have
introduced a hole. Consquently last night water came dripping out of the
light socket in my office and blew the fuse. The roofing guys came back
today and after looking around have discovered the hole and patched it. So
Ill give it a few more days to dry out before I try turning the light on
again.
UPDATE 2006/04/10: Looks like it fixed
Well it fair bucketed down last night, and no more water came through, so I
think it might be all fixed now. Well heres hoping anyway.
The 2 major parties totally dismiss out of hand
the UN’s report on indigenous issues in New Zealand. You can read the full
report
here.
Labour called it unbalanced, disapointing and narrow. Gerry Brownlee the
National Party’s spokesman for Maori Affair (which in itself is a complete
joke, its like having Robert Mugabe as spokesman for white farmers in
Zimbabwe) said, “The Government should show this report the respect it
deserves by throwing it straight into the dustbin.”
Not even an admission that at least some of it is right, or that there is
more they can do. No they launch straight into we have the best race
relations in the world. We stole a bunch of land, passed and continue to pass
racist laws, tortured and murdered .. but hey at least we are better than a lot of other countries.
Well that crap doesn’t wash with me.
So the blog has passed the two year old mark, so it looks like my musings
back in
2005 were off. Im still not bored enough of it to stop using it.
I have installed this on my laptop, the install was a breeze. Getting the
wifi going was a bit of a trick, but its all working now.
Im fighting with Xorg a little to see if i can get the synaptics touchpad to
not be quite as sensitive. Apart from that im pretty happy with it.
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.
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
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.
Kōrerorero 