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Archive for November, 2008

Internet offerings

Friday, November 21st, 2008

YouTube is always full of offerings, but the Chicken Police is my second all-time favourite.  After Western Spaghetti, that is.  I’d also like to be able to do this.  What is impressive is the guy looks like he has hands and just learnt to do it for fun.  Maybe I’m wrong about that, but if [...]

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UK vs NZ in numerical format

Friday, November 21st, 2008

There isn’t any objective way of determining where is a good place to live.  I’m enjoying London; not that I spent a whole lot of time out in it, thanks to my work and hobbies all being indoors.  But I love the sense of bigness and endless choice when I do go out, and I [...]

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election season closes

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

Well, looks like NZ didn’t get my memo about voting Labour. I don’t think a National government is going to be catastrophic for New Zealand.  National have definitely moved towards the centre in their policies (or at least the policies they were willing to speak about), and any government would be silly to spend big [...]

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a sad voter

Friday, November 7th, 2008

There is some sweetness in the fact that Maverick County, Texas, voted 78.2% in favour of Obama. The story of how the word “maverick” came to be is an interesting one, if you haven’t already read about it. In other news, my voting in the NZ elections was a complete fail.  I initially sent in [...]

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