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It's a massacre!

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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 GEND at the teachers' college/university that I graduated from (twice, even) is basically empty. Really. Take a look. (Thanks, Kerry. She's a fellow GradDipArts graduate in GEND.) Trying to finish the undergraduate major might be amusing, let alone an honours year or graduate diploma. Sigh.

And in far more cheerful (possibly) news, Kiwibank now have a Visa debit card with prettier designs than Westpac New Zealand's offering -- and, at first look, cheaper fees, too, especially with regards to the foreign currency fee; 2% versus Westpac's 2.5% might well be worth it. Sigh. Again.

I wonder if I will qualify to receive a card...

Or even if it is worth it. I will have to think about it.

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, a certain Labour politician called David Gervan McMillan) useful. I'll write some comments about it in the next fortnight.

(Disclaimer: And, in case anyone thinks otherwise, the release date of this title to PG had nothing to do with the current NZ general election; I can not and do not control these release dates in any way as I only submit the scans to be proofread 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.)

More books uploaded!

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Since the fun of seeing the results of my scan of Hinemoa uploaded to Project Gutenberg, I haven't written much. That said, in the intervening time, three of my scans have been processed, and have been uploaded:

Of the three, I'm most proud of the third book. The scanning may not have been the most time-consuming, but it was significant as the parliamentary response to the Mazengarb Report, which I found to be the most rewarding book to scan (and the first that I did).

Enjoy!

What's happened?

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  1. I got married.
  2. I'm kind of, well, not that close to all the New Zealand parliamentary papers that I've been scanning anymore.
  3. I haven't had much time to do security patches on the copy of Movable Type that I use.
Most importantly, I'm still alive! Some new things shall be up shortly, and older things are still available, such as previous entries. (Obviously the main Atom feeds and index pages from the previous installation will be redirected to here.)

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