<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
    <title>the power house</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/" />
    <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/atom.xml" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008-10-20:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3</id>
    <updated>2009-06-02T08:25:44Z</updated>
    <subtitle>web news management for hydroelectric power stations!</subtitle>
    <generator uri="http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/">Movable Type Pro 4.21-en</generator>

<entry>
    <title>Google Street View, now in Miltonsburg, Ohio</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/06/google-street-view-now-in-miltonsburg-ohio.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.161</id>

    <published>2009-06-02T07:54:09Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-02T08:25:44Z</updated>

    <summary>So, tonight I look back at the directions that I wrote to the venue for my wedding (the Catholic ceremony, that is, for those who must know), which included a Google Maps pointer for the church, naturally. To cut a...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="esoterica" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="photography" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>So, tonight I look back at the <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/ttsyr">directions</a> that I wrote to the venue for my wedding (the Catholic ceremony, that is, for those who must know), which included <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/obtqq">a Google Maps pointer for the church</a>, naturally.</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, not only is the smallest incorporated place (population 29, that is) in Ohio now in Google Street View's coverage (all five or so streets and two intersections in the <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/wzhwe">town limits</a>, albeit just an intersection view of side streets from the main road of the town), <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/kbctu">the said church can be seen</a>. And there's the <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/nsoie">church hall across the road</a>, too.</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>It&apos;s a massacre!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/03/its-a-massacre.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.160</id>

    <published>2009-03-19T16:46:28Z</published>
    <updated>2009-03-19T17:19:22Z</updated>

    <summary>Time for some alarmist titles, methinks. Well, first some disappointing news from my university, then something possibly a bit happier. And after some more marital bliss-inspired absenses from tph, I wake up to discover that the 2009 papers catalogue for...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="Section 27(1)" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="education" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="esoterica" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="school" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="women&apos;s studies" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="banking" label="banking" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="life" label="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="victoriauniversityofwellington" label="Victoria University of Wellington" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="victoriauniversityofwellingtoncollegeofeducation" label="Victoria University of Wellington College of Education" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="womensstudies" label="women&apos;s studies" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>Time for some alarmist titles, methinks. Well, first some disappointing news from my university, then something possibly a bit happier.</p>
<p>And after some more marital bliss-inspired absenses from <cite><abbr title="the power house">tph</abbr></cite>, I wake up to discover that the <a href="http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/study/subjects/coursecatalogue.aspx?d=Gender+and+Women%27s+Studies&amp;l=all&amp;t=2009&amp;res=d">2009 papers catalogue for <acronym title="Gender &amp; Women's Studies">GEND</acronym></a> at the teachers' college/university that I graduated from (twice, even) is <a href="http://www.salient.org.nz/news/gender-and-women%e2%80%99s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool?s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool%2Fcomment-page-1">basically empty</a>. Really. Take a look. (Thanks, <a href="http://www.salient.org.nz/news/gender-and-women%e2%80%99s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool?s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool%2Fcomment-page-1">Kerry</a>. She's a fellow <acronym title="Graduate Diploma in Arts">GradDipArts</acronym> graduate in <acronym title="Gender &amp; Women's Studies">GEND</acronym>.) Trying to finish the undergraduate major might be amusing, let alone an honours year or graduate diploma. Sigh.</p>
<p>And in far more cheerful (possibly) news, <a href="https://www.kiwibank.co.nz/visa-debit-card/">Kiwibank now have a Visa debit card</a> with prettier designs than <a href="http://www.westpac.co.nz/">Westpac New Zealand</a>'s <a href="http://www.westpac.co.nz/olcontent/olcontent.nsf/Content/Debitplus+Visa+Card?Opendocument&amp;refr=personal">offering</a> -- and, at first look, <a href="https://www.kiwibank.co.nz/personal-banking/rates-and-fees/product-specific-fees/visa-debit-card.asp">cheaper fees, too</a>, especially with regards to the foreign currency fee; 2% versus Westpac's 2.5% might well be worth it. Sigh. Again.</p>
<p>I wonder if I will qualify to receive a card...</p>
<p>Or even if it is worth it. I will have to think about it.</p></acronym>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>A long queue in Ferguson Township</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/11/a-long-queue-in-ferguson-township.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.159</id>

    <published>2008-11-05T00:10:43Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-05T00:16:42Z</updated>

    <summary> I hear some other queues in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania&apos;s polling places are better, and much better at that. But walking past the same local precinct (that I was standing outside of earlier, waiting with my wife for...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="photography" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="politics" label="politics" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[ <p>I hear some other queues in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania's polling places are better, and much better at that. But walking past the same <a href="http://www.co.centre.pa.us/elections/polls.asp#poll_50">local precinct</a> (that <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/11/fun-at-the-local-election-precinct.html">I was standing outside of earlier</a>, waiting with my wife for her turn to vote), <a href="http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA+%28Centre+County:+Ferguson+Northeast+2+%5BPrecinct+50%5D+%E2%80%93+Mike%E2%80%99s+Video,+TV+%26+Appliance%29&sll=40.807199,-77.889311&sspn=0.00916,0.022745&g=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.807199,-77.889311&spn=0.00916,0.022745&z=16&iwloc=addr">Mike's Video, TV & Appliance</a>, shortly before (hence the bad photographic quality of the Motorola V325), I came across the following:</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3004108518/" title="Basically, I saw a queue that went in to a neighbouring bank's carpark."><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/3004108518_10562a0e77_m.jpg" alt="Basically, I saw a queue that went in to a neighbouring bank's carpark." height="180" width="240" /></a></p><p>But that was just a preview of the rest of the line:</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3003272253/" title="The queue then went around part of the polling place's carpark quite happily,"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/3003272253_cf5807a677_m.jpg" alt="The queue then went around part of the polling place's carpark quite happily," height="180" width="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3003272389/" title="and then past the front of the building"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3003272389_e744c464fe_m.jpg" alt="then past the front of the building" height="180" width="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3004108554/" title="... where it finally went through a really narrow front door."><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/3004108554_d69cf08156_m.jpg" alt="... where it finally went through a really narrow front door." height="180" width="240" /></a></p><p>I write this at around 7.08, with a shade under an hour left. I passed by in a car just about 5 minutes ago, and the queue was about 5 metres shorter at that point.</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>Fun at the local election precinct</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/11/fun-at-the-local-election-precinct.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.158</id>

    <published>2008-11-04T13:52:39Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-04T14:03:03Z</updated>

    <summary>So I turn up at the local polling booth with my wife. Basically, she&apos;s previously been half an hour or so late and is usually the first (give or take) to vote. This year she was voter number 63 and...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="elections" label="elections" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>So I turn up at <a href="http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA+%28Centre+County:+Ferguson+Northeast+2+%5BPrecinct+50%5D+%E2%80%93+Mike%E2%80%99s+Video,+TV+%26+Appliance%29&amp;sll=40.807199,-77.889311&amp;sspn=0.00916,0.022745&amp;g=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.807199,-77.889311&amp;spn=0.00916,0.022745&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr">the local polling booth</a> with my wife. Basically, she's previously been half an hour or so late and is usually the first (give or take) to vote. This year she was voter number 63 and we waited an hour.</p><p>While she was inside, I decided it was safer to wait outside and have fun (as much as can be had by a resident waiting for their citizen spouse to finish voting) watching the queue snake around the booth, while I sat there hoping the embassy will actually count my vote in the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/voted.html"><abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr> elections</a> later this week.</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>Another public inquiry report with a painfully long full title uploaded!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/another-public-inquiry-report-with-a-painfully-long-full-title-uploaded.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.157</id>

    <published>2008-10-29T08:11:12Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-29T08:34:09Z</updated>

    <summary>Or, the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand; you might well find my original scans of this inquiry report (also known as the McMillan Report, after its chairperson,...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="Section 27(1)" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="books" label="books" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="elections" label="elections" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="juveniledelinquency" label="juvenile delinquency" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>Or, the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27070"><cite>Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand</cite></a>; you might well find <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/gallery/v/1937-ajhr-03-h-31a-abortion/">my original scans</a> of this inquiry report (also known as the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#abortion-1937">McMillan Report</a>, after its chairperson, a certain <a href="http://www.labour.org.nz/">Labour</a> politician called <a href="http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=4M25">David Gervan McMillan</a>) useful. I'll write some comments about it in the next fortnight.</p><p style="font-size: 67%;">(<em style="color: red;">Disclaimer:</em> And, in case anyone thinks otherwise, the release date of this title to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a> had nothing to do with the current <abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr> general election; I can not and do not control these release dates in any way as I only submit the scans to be <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">proofread</a> and I only keep a small sort of guidance on this process in terms of the quality of the proofed text while it is being proofread. Or so I think that is what I was told to do. Sorry.)</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>Voted</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/voted.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.156</id>

    <published>2008-10-21T22:30:57Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-21T22:46:51Z</updated>

    <summary>And the said overseas ballot papers (having become available this afternoon) are now about to make their way through the postal system to the embassy in DC. Thank goodness that is all over. For now. (And no, I&apos;m not going...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="elections" label="elections" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="life" label="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>And the said <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/uh-theres-an-election.html">overseas ballot papers</a> (having <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/voting/votingsub/how-vote-overseas.html">become available</a> this afternoon) are now about to make their way through the <a href="http://www.usps.gov/">postal system</a> to the <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/files/E1-List_09102008.pdf">embassy in <abbr title="District of Columbia">DC</abbr></a>.</p>
<p>Thank goodness that is all over.</p>
<p>For now.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 67%">(And no, I'm not going to tell you whom I voted for.)</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>More books uploaded!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/more-books-uploaded-1.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.155</id>

    <published>2008-10-21T05:57:56Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-21T06:45:09Z</updated>

    <summary>Since the fun of seeing the results of my scan of Hinemoa uploaded to Project Gutenberg, I haven&apos;t written much. That said, in the intervening time, three of my scans have been processed, and have been uploaded:General Assembly Library: Report...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="Section 27(1)" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="books" label="books" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    <category term="juveniledelinquency" label="juvenile delinquency" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>Since the fun of seeing the results of <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/downloads/pdf/002-pd/1907-whitcombe-and-tombs-fletcher-hinemoa-with-notes-and-vocabulary-01.pdf">my scan of <cite>Hinemoa</cite></a> <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22009">uploaded to Project Gutenberg</a>, I <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/whats-happened.html">haven't written much</a>. That said, in the intervening time, three of my scans have been <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">processed</a>, and have been uploaded:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25033"><cite>General Assembly Library: Report of the Chief Librarian for the Year 1924-25</cite></a>, by Charles Wilson<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25034"><cite>Report of the Chief Librarian for the Year Ended 31 March 1958: Special Centennial Issue</cite></a></li><li><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/26912"><cite>Report of the Juvenile Delinquency Committee</cite></a> (1955), by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Algie">Ronald Algie</a></li></ul><p>Of the three, I'm most proud of the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#juvenile-1955">third book</a>. The <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/gallery/v/1955-ajhr-03-i-15-juvenile-delinquency/">scanning</a> may not have been the most time-consuming, but it was significant as the parliamentary response to the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14760"><cite>Mazengarb Report</cite></a>, which I found to be the most rewarding book to <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#mazengarb-1954">scan</a> (and the first that I did).</p><p>Enjoy!</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>What websites do New Zealand men, aged 25 to 34, like looking at?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/what-websites-do-new-zealand-men-aged-25-to-34-like-looking-at.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.152</id>

    <published>2008-10-21T05:31:27Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-21T05:38:28Z</updated>

    <summary>According to Computerworld, number eight on the list is pornography. Among the other expected suspects....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/88338484FDBC6FB4CC2574E7006B648A">According to <cite>Computerworld</cite></a>, <a href="http://www2.netratings.com/files/63357868160.3A03609952D7/Age%20grp%2025-34_Aug08_2.jpg">number eight on the list is pornography</a>. Among the other expected suspects.</p>]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>Easiest campaign stop ever</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/easiest-campaign-stop-ever.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.151</id>

    <published>2008-10-21T02:06:35Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-21T02:17:52Z</updated>

    <summary>Oh, the joys of choreographed campaign stops: just hold a question and answer session with primary school students.And from the back files of obscurity, while I did discover this a while ago while Movable Type was down, I have (maybe)...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="elections" label="elections" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[Oh, the joys of choreographed campaign stops: just hold <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz-election-2008/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501799&amp;objectid=10538639">a question and answer session with primary school students</a>.<br /><br />And from the back files of obscurity, while I did discover this a while ago <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/whats-happened.html">while Movable Type was down</a>, I have (maybe) always wondered what one could do when illegally embezzling city council funds as a lord mayor -- <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/13/1978169.htm">buy</a> a <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1929043.htm">Darth Vader voice changer</a>, maybe? And don't forget <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nt/content/2006/s2183842.htm">a fridge and a pile of gift tokens</a>, too.<br /> ]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>Uh, there&apos;s an election?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/uh-theres-an-election.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.150</id>

    <published>2008-10-21T00:38:18Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-21T01:02:46Z</updated>

    <summary>No, not the current round of elections in the United States. Polls open tomorrow for New Zealand&apos;s overseas voters in the 2008 general elections, if I have my time zones right. Unfortunately, I haven&apos;t exactly decided whom to vote for...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="current events" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="elections" label="elections" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[No, not the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_general_elections,_2008">current round of elections in the United States</a>. Polls open tomorrow for <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/voting/votingsub/how-vote-overseas.html">New Zealand's overseas voters</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_general_election,_2008">2008 general elections</a>, if I have my time zones right. Unfortunately, I haven't exactly decided <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/voting/candidates-and-parties/party-lists.html">whom to vote for with my electorate vote</a>, yet (even though it seems that I know a large proportion of the <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/voting/candidates-and-parties/party-lists.html#party19">Workers Party candidates</a>). Worse, I nearly forgot someone (this being Helen Clark) actually <a href="http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/pm+announces+2008+general+election">called this said election</a> not too long ago.<br /><br />An attempt to help with this indecision by vainly e-mailing the major parties (and where possible, local electorate candidates) yielded only one response from a party I hadn't exactly put down on my short list. Maybe this is why I'm finding the television commericals that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain">John McCain</a> are putting up here in <a href="http://www.co.centre.pa.us/elections/elect.asp#general">Centre County</a> and the surrounding area rather mild compared to what I hear about <a href="http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2008/10/huffington_post_labels_nz_election_as_dirty.html">the apparently dirty New Zealand campaigns</a>.<br /><br />Thank goodness that I've decided what to do with <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/voting/voting-info/hutt-south.html#candidates">my electorate vote</a>.<br /><br />Now, all I have to do once I download, print and fill out the ballot papers is to find somewhere with a fax machine...<br />]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

<entry>
    <title>What&apos;s happened?</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/whats-happened.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.149</id>

    <published>2008-10-20T23:30:45Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-20T23:45:35Z</updated>

    <summary>I got married.I&apos;m kind of, well, not that close to all the New Zealand parliamentary papers that I&apos;ve been scanning anymore.I haven&apos;t had much time to do security patches on the copy of Movable Type that I use.Most importantly, I&apos;m...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
        <category term="Section 27(1)" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
        <category term="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
    <category term="life" label="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<ol><li>I got married.</li><li>I'm kind of, well, not that close to all the New Zealand parliamentary papers that <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/">I've been scanning</a> anymore.</li><li>I haven't had much time to do security patches on the copy of Movable Type that I use.</li></ol>Most importantly, I'm still alive! Some new things shall be up shortly, and older things are still available, such as <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives.html">previous entries</a>. (Obviously the main Atom feeds and index pages from the previous installation will be redirected to here.)<br /> ]]>
        
    </content>
</entry>

</feed>
