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That was worth working saturday night for

Well if you have to work on a saturday night, you have to pretty happy that
you can do it on a laptop while watching NZ beat Australia in rugby league.
I think I got all that needed to be done, done, so should be all set for a
relaxing data tomorrow and an early night before the go live on monday. So
now I’m going to unwind watching some adult swim, specifically aqua teen
hunger force, then hit the hay.

Go live is getting close

Well its only 3 more days until the second public library in NZ goes live
with Koha. And as you’d expect its pretty
busy at work at the moment. Once its all live, I’m sure there will be a
bunch of publicity so keep an eye out for that. Its looking pretty crash
hot, the designers and htmlers have done a great job I reckon.

UPDATE 2005/10/18: Too smooth

Well that was the smoothest go live Ive ever been involved in, I keep
feeling that something will explode, but into the second day of production
and everything seems all fine. We had a few glitches, but nothing close to a
show stopper, very gratifying.

World XI vs Australia

Yay its cricket season in the southern hemisphere. Tonight the World XI are
playing Australia in Melbourne, and Daniel Vettori has started the series
really well. He took 4-33 off his 10 overs when bowling, hopefully he will
do well with the bat as well. Currently the World XI arent chasing so well
at 61-3 … but they bat a long way down, so we’ll see.
There are 4 internationals in Wellington this summer, Australia ODI on the
7th of December, Sri Lanka ODI 6th of January, West Indies ODI on the 18th
and West Indies 17-21 March.
I plan to be at them all, barring the ODI on the 6th of January, wearing my
beige and singing stupid songs.

UPDATE 2005/10/05: Eeek

Its now 105-7. 149 to win off 121 balls, I cant see it happening

UPDATE 2005/10/06: Bah

Its now 118-8 … 142 off 102, but Daniel is batting now so Ill watch for a
bit longer.

Daylight savings

Well daylight savings started this morning, the bad news is we lost an hour,
the good news is, it means summer is on the way. Lets hope its less
miserable than the last one, and we get piles and piles of cricket. I dont
know if any of you have been watching ‘Frontier of Dreams’ on TV one. If you
haven’t my suggestion is dont bother, its pretty much a pile of drivel thus
far. One of my pet peeves was that Maori were consistently called
colonisers, and yet last night they often referred to Pakeha as ‘settlers’
… eh??? It was the other way around buddy. Unless the definition of
coloniser has changed in the last year or so.
Oh and another thing, now im not usually one to support an Act party member
in anything, but can anyone explain to me why Donna Awatere Huata got
sentenced to two years for stealing $80,000. And yet Michael Perry gets
12
months with leave to apply for home detention after helping to steal millions
Surely he should be getting at least 2 years also, or more as he was
convicted of money laundering also.
Lets see 2 ppl, convicted of stealing 80,000 … get 2 years a piece, so
thats what 1 year per 20,000. From stuff ‘Sixteen rental properties were
bought by Perry with fraudulent transactions of $243,245 in deposit funds
and $1,251,999 in mortgage funds.’. So lets say 1.5 million / 20,000 = 75,
so 75 years for him. Of course its not that simple, but surely its worth at
least 2 years .. oh and maybe some coverage in more than 1 paper in the
country.

Letters to Ali

I got this out to watch purely on a whim, and boy I’m glad I did. A
documentary following an Australian family’s journey of discovery about
their own country. As a mother learns about the detention centres in
Australia she becomes determined to do something to help the refugees
arbitrarily detained there. I wont say anything more as I dont want to ruin
it.