So Joshua and I spent a good chunk of today trying to fix a bug that we can
only readily reproduce on one machine. Its very odd, but we think we have
narrowed it down to one place to look. Something mental happens if the 856
tag is filled in. I maintain MARC is weird 🙂
Census Night tonight
So tonight is the census, everyone in NZ has to fill out a form. A pretty
stupid form that makes a lot of false assumptions.
- No one under 15 smokes
- No one under 15 works
Which are both demonstratibly false. But oh well, its just lies^H^H^H^H
statistics.
UPDATE 2006/03/07: Officially counted
Ok Ive filled in the census form online, so I can’t get fined a big wad of
cash. So thats all good.
Spicy Lamb sausages
I had a fantastic spicy lamb sausage at the Newtown fair today. No idea who
made it, I bought it of some indian guy who was barbequeing them. The fair
was pretty good, lots of great food, a couple of good bands and some
interesting stalls.
Battalion
We went to see
Battalion
last night. It was excellent, if you can manage to get tickets to any of
their remaining shows, grab them and go.
Arsehats of the Month
Anyone campaigning for a New Zealander category on the ethnicity question on
the Census. New Zealander is your Nationality you crazy retards. Everyone
who is a citizen of NZ is a New Zealander. They arent all the same
ethnicity.
If I go live in India, does that make me of Indian ethnicity? Of course it
bloody doesnt. Get over yourselves and read a dictionary.
MMMM Elixir
I knew chocolate milk was good, heres the
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Theres this one gang, that keeps wanting me to join because of my Bo Staff skills.
So it was an odd but yet productive weekend. Joshua, THD, and I managed to
do some interesting things with Koha.. well Joshua and THD did most of the
work, I cheered them along. I’ll do a bit of a post about what got done
later on, or you can read all about it in the mailing list archives.
Plus as you can probably tell by the tagline, I watched Napolean Dynamite
again. Oh and all the NZ teams won in the super 14.
Albums I want to buy
Just noting them down so I don’t forget.
- The new miniut album
- Concious Roots 2
- Whirimako Black – Kura Huna
- Shapeshifter – Riddim Wise
We don’t have a prize for you, because you didn’t win, sorry.
Another week, another big pile of work to deal with, its better than being
bored though, and it is interesting work.
Telstraclear seem to have fixed whatever the problem was with their router
talking to Motorola 5100 cable modems. So it appears I have a stable net
connection again, which is all good.
Nothing but problems
So the last few days, my cable modem has decided to just stop working for
periods of time. Apparently its a known issue and TelstraClear are working
on it. In the meantime, they have resolved another issue, and now want to
charge me an extra $30 on this months bill, since they forgot to charge me
rental on the cable modem for the last three months.
Which is now about as reliable as a piece of wet string.
And another thing ive been ‘renting’ this cable modem for years now. Which
would be fine if it was my choice .. but no, you cant buy a cable modem, you
have to rent it. If there was any viable broadband in my area, theyd be
goneburger in about 10 seconds.