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The last 6 months have not been good to me. First my computer monitor died. I replaced it. This blew my video card. I replaced it. Just after I annouced I was going into podcasting my hard drive died - corrupting, in the pocess, several databases I relied on. Soon after that my modem died. It has... Sign in to see full entry.

SAVER is the acronym for the Situation Aware Volcanic Eruption Reasoner - an internet database program designed to assist and integrate disaster relief (something Haiti could use at the moment). It was designed by Pakistani, Yasir Javed, at New Zealand’s Massey University. He is quoted as saying:... Sign in to see full entry.

Kaitaia police (in New Zealand) issued a warning to a driver after the low speed pursuit of a mobility scooter along Ninety Mile Beach. Sign in to see full entry.

Here’s a scam I just found out about…. and like. Police in Sweden believe they have uncovered a masterpiece of crime. For months designer shoes have been disappearing from the show stores in Malmo - but only the left shoe was stolen. An elaborate practical joke you might think? No. It was discovered... Sign in to see full entry.

New Zealand has an idiot as a Minister of Transport!!!!! He has argued against compulsory third party insurance on the basis that over 90% NZ drivers are already insured AND making it compulsory puts an extra financial burden on the individual. This moron doesn’t realise that the best time to... Sign in to see full entry.

In New Zealand the issue of name suppression in court cases is once again under discussion. There are a number of reasons to issue a name suppression order either temporarily or permanently. The result, in this country, is that the accussed, in almost all cases involving a jury, is granted name... Sign in to see full entry.

This blog is written by hand. Then edited by hand. Then typed into a computer file and edited again and then pasted into my blog, and checked, and published. Last week I did a heap of writing but, when I got to the typing bit I discovered I had lost my notebook. Don’t worry, I fund it again; but... Sign in to see full entry.

Merry Christmas everyone!!! (and Happy Birthday to everyone, like me, who has a birthday during this season)!! Sign in to see full entry.

There are just so many angles I could write about the theft of the sign over the Auschwitz prison camp being stolen. As this is the day before Xmas I’ll just point out the angle of the man (and I think we can be certain it is a man) who decided his desire to experience something far outweighed other... Sign in to see full entry.

Now that New Line Cinema has cancelled the trilogy I would like to blog a little about the controversy behind the film. Author, Phillip Pullman, is both a New Zealander and an aetheist. However, any novel that posits the existence of the soul AND its physical existence in the universe (indeed, in... Sign in to see full entry.