Koha integrated with Kea

I did some work a while back to integrate Kea and Koha for the LGNZ site. This allows them to use the Kea
Content Management system to add documents (be they html, pdf whatever) to
their website and Koha to catalogue them.
Ive since got this working for the Katipo Koha now as well. It seems to
work pretty well, so my plan now is to document what I did so that it can be
done with other CMS systems as well if people want.

So Mallard thinks Pakeha are indigenous to NZ does he?

I guess he’s going from the dictionary definition. Which is fine, as long as
he isn’t trying to imply that they still aren’t bound by the Treaty.
Personally when I think indigenous I think of the UN definition

“Indigenous communities, peoples and nations are those which, having a
historical continuity with pre-invasion and pre-colonial societies that
developed on their territories, consider themselves distinct from other
sectors of the societies now prevailing in those territories, or parts of
them.”

Which is what Maori are and will always be, and pakeha will never be in NZ.

The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett

As always a hugely enjoyable read, and a great way to spend the trans tasman
flight. It certainly beats the shite that they were pretending was a movie,
or eating the shite they were trying to convince us was food. I remember
back in the day, Air New Zealand used to win awards for its food and wine
service, now its worse than the food they used to serve in the hostel
kitchens of uni in the last term when they had blown the budget.
Anyway this isnt supposed to be a rant about crap airline food, but rather
to say that this a book thats well worth reading.

Horrible network performance tonight.

Well, the screen server crashed, and now my network connection has decided
to go mental.
And as I right this, it decides to make a liar out of me and come right.
Still when it wasnt working it wasnt pretty, look at that average time
— http://www.paradise.net.nz ping statistics —
112 packets transmitted, 103 packets received, 8% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 11.0/286.1/590.5 ms

Brisbane Trip

Heres a brief travelogue of our recent Brisbane excursion.

We flew out of freezing cold Wellington on Thursday night, and landed in
Brisbane just after 12am friday morning. It may have been the middle of the
night but it was still 4 degrees warmer than the high in Wellington.
We caught a taxi to our hotel, the Astor Metropole, which was right in
downtown brisbane. Once we had checked in, we piled into bed and slept till
about 9 the next morning.
We then wandered down through the town to pick up our rental car and headed
out to the burbs to go shopping at IKEA. After that we parked the car back
at the hotel and checked out the malls. Lots of good shopping to be had in
Brisbane and with the NZ dollar nice and strong, lots of bargains as well.
Saturday we headed north up the sunshine coast to check out Australia Zoo.
Tons of fun, it was Bindi’s 6th birthday which meant that Steve Irwin the
crocodile hunter himself was there. CRIKEY!!!!
Sunday we spent the day at Dreamworld and the evening at the final big
brother eviction. Fun, if slightly mad.
Lots of photos
here