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Lace up your boots, we’re going back to your roots.

Someone said the other day, that New Zealand was too mixed. That is people
of different cultures and races mingled and mixed together too freely. Now I
knew cracker baldhead wankers like the National Front and probably
reasonable chunks of the National party think this. But I was surprised that
someone who I thought had a modicum of intelligence would say it, expecting
us to agree. It actually makes me feel ill that someone would think, that I
would think something like that. I wrote a poem when I was at University, a
long time ago, when I was a young angry man. Its pretty stupid but it
expresses the sentiments I had when I heard the statement “NZ is too mixed”.
It goes like this

Life is short
And in the end you die
So find a racist asshole
And poke a stick in their eye

I suck at Mortal Kombat

I keep getting my butt kicked by people all over the world in mortal kombat
deceptions. All I can win is the Mortal Kombat chess, as soon as we get into
the fight bits tho, if im not playing scorpion im pretty much toast. Its
quite a bit of fun though and a huge stress relief.

UPDATE 2004/12/07: I suck far less now

Well due to a nice 8 hour outage of the telstraclear cable. We had no tv or
net for 8 hours. So I played a lot of Mortal Kombat, im pleased to report I
suck far less than I did before.

Stuff I want

Laurel told me to make a list of stuff I want, to help her and others choose
christmas presents. So here goes.

  • Sid Meiers Pirates PC Game
  • World of Warcraft PC Game
  • NHL 2005 PS2 game
  • Battle for Middle Earth PC Game
  • Return of the King Extended Edition DVD
  • The Family Guy season 1 or 2 DVD
  • Robosapien

Thats all I have so far.

Spelling suggestions

David Bigwood made a really good suggestion today about adding a spelling
suggestions feature into Koha. Much like the way google works. I think we
could use the soundex feature in MySQL to do something neat. In fact I’m
going to give that a whirl right now.

Koha

UPDATE 2004/12/04: Ok proof of concept works

Right I whacked up a proof of concept
href=”http://library.katipo.co.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-seach.pl”> here .
Its only working for title search so far, try a search for fush, or sole
music.

Good grief its December already.

Well it was a gorgeous day here in Wellington, lets hope the rest of the
month is as good. In random news today, the USA nearly beat Australia in
rugby league .. yes thats right, rugby league. They ran in the first 3 tries
stunning the aussies before australia remembered they are the world
champions and decided to play. In the end it was a win of only 36-24 to
Australia. All 7 people who know what league is (other than the coach and
team) in the US were probably really happy.

How to waste time, in 3 short steps

  1. Buy a cheap webcam from trademe
  2. Spend 2 hours getting it working
  3. Spend another hour scripting automatic updates to your blog

And there you have it a picture of a dog toy in your blog

UPDATE 2004/11/30: I changed it

Ok, its no longer just pointing at a dog toy, its now pointing at a panda
soft toy, with perhaps the biggest disproportionate head ever. Oh and you
can still see the dog toy off to the left.