The
By-election results are in. And the Maori party and Tariana Turia not
suprisingly cleaned up. If I was labour id be worried, theyve pretty much
thrown away 7 safe seats. Not to mention the list vote.
Gimps
I stand corrected.
Owen tells me that the speed increase they are seeing at NPL is due to tweaks
Joshua has made to the mysql configuration. Yay Joshua. So thats all good. I
suggested that when the replication is all working as well it might be even
faster, which worried Owen slightly.
<owen:#koha> If it gets any faster, it’ll travel back in time! What
if Koha travels back in time and kills chris! A paradox will destroy the
universe!
Im hoping Joshua will see this and post a link to his documentation for the
tweaks 🙂
No I wont diagnose your network problems!
With help from my dad and Rachel, we now have a tshirt available from
cafepress. Here it is
Wear it with pride, promoting the use of Te Reo, and also saving
yourself from have to fix other peoples problems 🙂
Home, Land and Sea
The title track for the album of the same name from Trinity Roots. Is a haunting song with challenging lyrics. I think especially poignant at this time, which I feel is a pivotal period in New Zealands history, and the decisions made in the next few years will decide how our descendants judge this generation.
“From the tail of the fish to the tip, many all around this world want a piece of this land. Seems like nothing, nothing no is gonna stop it, I know it, I can feel it.”
Koha and MySQL Replication
NPL have had some good success with this, Owen says it feels like a 1000% improvement in the circulations when all the opac catalog searching is being done on a slave database. I might talk to them about writing up a bit of a How-to. For big libraries it definitely is the way to go. (It has the added benefit of doing realtime back ups too).
Arsehats of the day.
Two arsehats today.
Whoever came up with the idea for the TV program, ‘The Swan’, and TV3 for airing it.
What a complete pile of excrement. Lets just reinforce the idea that self worth is tied completely to appearance. Utter arsehats!!
Working on Koha
Yay! Today I get to do some work on Koha as part of my job. Munging data to get it into the koha database. Always fun.
Its freeeezing.
I honestly couldnt feel less like dragging myself off to volleyball to hyperextend my left index finger again. (I seem to do it every week). But at least it might warm me up a bit.
July 4th in New Zealand
Well its july 4th here today, So I guess I take out my resident American
expat out for a hotdog and bad beer or something 😉 Its pretty hard to do
the big barbeque traditional type things when its the middle of winter and
freezing cold.
Space Madness
I’m pretty sure that the Space Madness episode of Ren and Stimpy is in fact
the best thing that has ever, and probably will ever be on television.
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