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<title>the power house: Section 27(1)</title>
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<modified>2007-09-25T19:43:40Z</modified>
<tagline>Section 27(1): web news management for hydroelectric power stations!</tagline>
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<title>Back already</title>
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<modified>2007-09-25T19:43:40Z</modified>
<issued>2007-09-25T19:29:27Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2007:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.555</id>
<created>2007-09-25T19:29:27Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Sometimes I wonder if I do forget that I&apos;m back in the United States. Proof that I know I am, though: I&apos;ll put up some more photographs soon, and hopefully I&apos;m allowed to make some announcements on what I&apos;m doing...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Pennsylvania State University</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Sometimes I wonder if I do forget that I'm back in the United States. Proof that I know I am, though:</p>

<ol><li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/1068984308/" title="The first reason is that I visted Stanford University."><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1032/1068984308_c8d15bde56_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="The first reason is that I visted Stanford University." style="vertical-align: text-top; border-style: none; " /></a></li><li><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/1069582440/" title="I also visited Tempe, Arizona, which is incidentally one of Lower Hutt's sister cities. So here's a random photograph from Tempe."><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1242/1069582440_6043d89641_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="I also visited Tempe, Arizona, which is incidentally one of Lower Hutt's sister cities. So here's a random photograph from Tempe." style="vertical-align: text-top; border-style: none; " /></a></li></ol>

<p>I'll put up some more photographs soon, and hopefully I'm allowed to make some announcements on what I'm doing next for my <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/">book scanning work</a>.</p>

<p>Hugs!</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>A busy life, but another Project Gutenberg book is now finished!</title>
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<modified>2007-07-07T19:34:17Z</modified>
<issued>2007-07-06T17:33:29Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2007:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.547</id>
<created>2007-07-06T17:33:29Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Yes, it would appear that the first M&amp;#257;ori language text to appear on PG has appeared. Yay! Now available in glorious markup on Project Gutenberg is Hinemoa: with notes and vocabulary. The S27(1) site also has some nice goodies in...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
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<dc:subject>Section 27(1)</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Yes, it would appear that the first <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/mi">M&#257;ori language</a> text to appear on <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a> has appeared. Yay!</p>

<p>Now available in glorious markup on <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> is <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22009"><cite>Hinemoa: with notes and vocabulary</cite></a>. The <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/"><cite><abbr title="Section 27(1)">S27(1)</abbr></cite> site</a> also has some nice goodies in its <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#fletcher-1907"><cite>Hinemoa</cite> section</a> that might be worth checking out, too.</p>

<p>After <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000528.html">a really interesting lesson in the macronisation of M&#257;ori over time</a>, it's been great to finally, with the help of <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr></a> (plus some very helpful advice from <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/maori/staff/teaching-fellows/winifred-bauer.aspx">Winifred Bauer</a> at <abbr title="Victoria University of Wellington">VUW</abbr>), take part in getting this on to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a>. The <abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr> upload, it may be worth noting, preserves the text as published, with no corrections made; there is an <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/downloads/text/002-pd/1907-whitcombe-and-tombs-fletcher-hinemoa-with-notes-and-vocabulary-01/">'unofficial' version</a> of sorts, if this is required; see my <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/"><cite><abbr title="Section 27(1)">S27(1)</abbr></cite> site</a>'s <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#fletcher-1907"><cite>Hinemoa</cite> section</a> for more details about that.</p>

<p>(By the way, life has been busy lately. If you don't know already why I haven't done much in the way of the diary for a while, you will soon know why, once I can say officially what's happening.)</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>A reason for me to finish packing sooner</title>
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<modified>2006-12-24T13:03:12Z</modified>
<issued>2006-12-24T12:16:55Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.528</id>
<created>2006-12-24T12:16:55Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">I&apos;ve been packing so busily I didn&apos;t realise it became Christmas Day less than twenty minutes ago; I really should finish soon so I can enjoy it (and to sleep first, perhaps). At least that&apos;s what our Santa-friendly US-Canadian military...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Pennsylvania State University</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>I've been packing so busily I didn't realise it became Christmas Day less than twenty minutes ago; I really should finish soon so I can enjoy it (and to sleep first, perhaps). At least that's what our Santa-friendly <abbr title="United States">US</abbr>-Canadian military agency's <a href="http://www.noradsanta.org/"><cite><abbr lang="en-us" title="North American Air Defense Command">NORAD</abbr> Tracks Santa</cite> service</a> just posted, <a href="http://www.noradsanta.org/en/tracking.php">even with some videos</a>:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-12-25%20noradsanta.org%20sighted%20over%20new%20zealand.png"><img style="border-style: none; " alt="This is another sign that I should hurry up packing." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-12-25%20noradsanta.org%20sighted%20over%20new%20zealand-thumb.png" width="240" height="173" /></a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-12-25%20noradsanta.org%20sighted%20over%20new%20zealand%20video%20listing.png"><img style="border-style: none; " alt="Not only does the site have videos, they still run a phone-in service. Well, if you live in North America and can get at the toll-free line." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-12-25%20noradsanta.org%20sighted%20over%20new%20zealand%20video%20listing-thumb.png" width="240" height="173" /></a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-12-25%20noradsanta.org%20empty%20map.png"><img style="border-style: none; " alt="The live tracking map, however, either isn't ready yet or shows Santa really hasn't left the North Pole. Heh." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-12-25%20noradsanta.org%20empty%20map-thumb.png" width="240" height="173" /></a></p>

<p>Damn. I should be packing for <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000527.html">Penn State</a> and <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000520.html">Celebrate</a> quicker.</p>

<p>Merry Christmas!</p>

<p>On other interesting (depending on personal preference, I guess) news, any volunteers to go over and check (and add) the hyphenation and macronisation (for the te reo M&#257;ori section) in <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#fletcher-1907"><cite>Hinemoa: with notes and vocabulary</cite></a>, as I get it <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID4578f56a4c97b&amp;detail_level=4">converted in to an e-book</a> through <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a>/<a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr></a>?</p>]]>

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<title>Hinemoa&apos;s story is now/not available for proofreading</title>
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<modified>2006-12-08T12:48:42Z</modified>
<issued>2006-12-08T10:17:00Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.526</id>
<created>2006-12-08T10:17:00Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Well, you&apos;d better hurry if you want to go to Project Gutenberg&apos;s Distributed Proofreaders website to help proofread Rev Henry James Fletcher&apos;s Hinemoa: with notes and vocabulary. (Why bother to mention it? It&apos;s the first book on the DP site...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
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<dc:subject>school</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Well, you'd better hurry if you want to go to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a>'s <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">Distributed Proofreaders website</a> to <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID4578f56a4c97b&amp;detail_level=4">help proofread <abbr title="Reverend">Rev</abbr> Henry James Fletcher's <cite>Hinemoa: with notes and vocabulary</cite></a>. (Why bother to mention it? It's the first book on the <abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr> site with Te Reo M&#257;ori claimed as the primary language.)</p>

<p>So far, it's looking like it will have the fastest first round proofread cycle I've ever seen on the site of anything I've uploaded (not counting a book that was around 5 pages or so I previously uploaded).</p>

<p>Or, if you don't want to proofread it, you could just <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#fletcher-1907">download the <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> scan of <cite>Hinemoa</cite> instead</a>. The whole book comes with a glossary (the book appears to be pitched as a textbook for English-speaking learners of M&#257;ori language and culture) and some sort of quick summary of the story in English; methinks one would find <a href="http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/H/HinemoaLegendOf/HinemoaLegendOf/en">the entry on the Hinemoa story in the 1966 edition of the <cite>Encyclopaedia of New Zealand</cite></a> also useful.</p>

<p>(It's not the only other book in <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a> or <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr></a> that I can find that's in Te Reo. You'll find Edward Shortland's <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID40a35e830c9df&amp;detail_level=4"><cite>Maori Religion and Mythology</cite></a> floating around <abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr> at the moment; it doesn't claim M&#257;ori as the primary language. That appears to be the only other one I can find right now on either website, however.)</p>

<p>Enjoy!</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>And finally, the books</title>
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<modified>2006-11-30T05:11:11Z</modified>
<issued>2006-11-30T03:46:05Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.524</id>
<created>2006-11-30T03:46:05Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">All right, so I took like twelve days to get around to filling out the basic bibliographic information, but finally, the two parliamentary papers (well, books, really) I&apos;ve just uploaded are the Report of the Chief Librarian, General Assembly Library...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
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<dc:subject>Section 27(1)</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>All right, so I took like twelve days to get around to <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000523.html">filling out the basic bibliographic information</a>, but finally, the two parliamentary papers (well, books, really) I've just uploaded are the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#general-1958"><cite>Report of the Chief Librarian, General Assembly Library for the year ended 31 March 1958 (Special Centennial Issue)</cite></a> and the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#nlnz-1958"><cite>Report of the National Library Service for the Year Ended 31 March 1958</cite></a>; the latter has already been <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19780">converted into <abbr title="Hypertext Markup Language">HTML</abbr> for Project Gutenberg</a>, too. Both were, of course, like most if not all other papers in the AJHRs, <q cite="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#general-1958">Presented to the House of Representatives by Leave</q>.</p>

<p>Thanks to the <a href="http://www.parliament.nz/">New Zealand Parliamentary Library</a> for telling me what their birthday was by pointing me to their centennial annual report. I ended up using the two above plus <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#general-1925">their 1925 annual report</a> as birthday texts (their birthday, that is) on <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a>'s <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">Distributed Proofreaders</a> proofreading site. For the record, the library tells me their birthday (albeit in the predecessor name, the General Assembly Library) is 20 September 1858, when that institution we all know and love (or not love, as the case may be), the <q cite="http://www.legislation.govt.nz/libraries/contents/om_isapi.dll?clientID=1139519249&amp;infobase=pal_statutes.nfo&amp;jump=act-nzl-pub-y.1986-114%7ebdy%7ept.3%7esg.%219%7ehdg&amp;softpage=DOC&amp;wordsaroundhits=6#JUMPDEST_act-nzl-pub-y.1986-114~bdy~pt.3~sg.!9~hdg">Parliament of New Zealand</q> (or, again, at the time, the <q cite="http://www.legislation.govt.nz/libraries/contents/om_isapi.dll?clientID=1139519249&amp;infobase=pal_statutes.nfo&amp;record={9C0E8}&amp;hitsperheading=on&amp;softpage=DOC">General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled</q>) appointed a certain Major Francis Campbell as its first librarian.</p>

<p>Methinks now I'll move back to the morality and juvenile delinquency inquiries and texts I usually scan (or find scans of). Problem is deciding what to do next, and means. Case in point is <cite>Contraception, sterilisation and abortion in New Zealand: report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry</cite>. I'd like to scan it, but problem is, it's 454-odd pages. That means major spine bending if I do, and I don't exactly want to go damaging a book or report (this one's both, I guess) that isn't mine. Same goes for the Mahon Royal Commission's report (or, the <cite>Royal Commission to Inquire into the Crash on Mount Erebus, Antarctica of a DC10 Aircraft Operated by Air New Zealand Limited</cite>), though not a sexuality- or morality-related text. That one's shorter at 166-odd pages and may be manageable, but there's the problem of the full bleed (edge-to-edge) photographs. That'd make them become difficult to scan -- they are spectacular though for colour photographs of the time and make a compelling part of the report, so I do need to include them. Plus there appear to be copyright notices on some graphs and diagrams, especially near the end of the report (I'm told these are erroneous claims that wouldn't hold up if challenged, but them notices are still there nonetheless, and methinks that I do need further confirmations on those before I scan them; I could scan them without the graphs but I'm also told those diagrams and graphs are important factual documents I can't exclude for balance reasons). The spine's size I imagine <strong>might</strong> make it easier to scan, however.</p>

<p>Sigh. But I'll figure something out eventually, I'm sure.</p>

<p>But a lot of it is to do with money for equipment. You can't exactly easily run a scanning project, even as specific as mine, on a shoestring type budget. And to make the spine issue (which many of us have have ever gone scanning or photocopying large books are all too aware of) and those curved lines of text less obvious requires <a href="http://www.plustek.com/product/knowledge_office.asp" rel="nofollow">better scanning equipment like the OpticBook</a>. (Either one of these kind of scanners, or a really expensive scanning service like the <a href="http://www.hmif.co.nz/" rel="nofollow">Heritage Materials Imaging Facility</a> -- but use of their <q cite="http://www.hmif.co.nz/">top-of-the-line</q> Cruse <q cite="http://www.hmif.co.nz/">non-invasive</q> scanner is rather expensive with a per page price, the <a href="http://www.nzetc.org/"><abbr title="Victoria University of Wellington">VUW</abbr> <abbr title="New Zealand Electronic Text Centre">NZETC</abbr></a> tell me!) Quite likely it'd be prohibitive for an individual person like me.) Maybe <a href="http://www.publicaddress.net/default,3711.sm#post3711">a contestable fund like what Russell Brown suggests </a>might help here. Either that or winning the national lottery. As Russell puts it:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://www.publicaddress.net/default,3711.sm#post3711"><p>Develop a simple, contestable fund to allow individuals and groups to have public archive content digitised on request, thus extending decision-making power to the people who will actually use the content. Make all such content available under a Creative Commons licence, thus developing an on-demand archive in parallel with any archive developed as part of an official strategy.</p></blockquote>

<p>(This idea of his was written in response to <a href="http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/"><cite>Creating Digital New Zealand: The Draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy: Discussion Document</cite></a>. If you wanna comment on this <a href="http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/upload/General/Content/NZ%20Digital%20Content%20Strategy%20Discussion%20Document.pdf">very wordily-titled discussion paper</a>, you'd better hurry. You've only got three weeks; the cover says <q cite="http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/upload/General/Content/NZ%20Digital%20Content%20Strategy%20Discussion%20Document.pdf">Comments due by Wednesday 20 December 2006</q>.)</p>

<p>As for why I took so long to post this, hopefully I can announce why come Monday next week. Wednesday or Thursday at the latest, maybe. Or I'll forget to anyway... I'll see.</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>New books uploaded</title>
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<modified>2006-11-18T05:19:54Z</modified>
<issued>2006-11-18T04:17:43Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.523</id>
<created>2006-11-18T04:17:43Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Well, while I get some things sorted over the next few weeks, I&apos;ll be a bit snowed over with things to do -- I can&apos;t say yet out loud what&apos;s happening, alas. Here&apos;s a couple of things that have been...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>life</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Well, while I get some things sorted over the next few weeks, I'll be a bit snowed over with things to do -- I can't say yet out loud what's happening, alas. Here's a couple of things that have been happening.</p>

<p>For a break from my usual morality inquiry (and related books) scans, I've been <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000506.html">scanning books from other subject areas</a>, such as <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#fletcher-1907"><cite>Hinemoa</cite></a>. New stuff today includes some education-related parliamentary annual reports from the late 1950s. There's a couple of these I'll have links for in the next few weeks once I remember where I've put the <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> scans for them and get full title information for them.</p>

<p>Something that's been sitting on my computer's desktop screen for nearly three weeks now since All Saints' Day is an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/opinion/01martin.html?ex=1320037200&amp;en=b3882eb298908406&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss">opinion piece on sainthood</a> from the <cite><abbr title="New York Times">NYT</abbr></cite>.</p>]]>

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<title>Losing luggage in Las Vegas</title>
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<modified>2006-10-14T07:36:39Z</modified>
<issued>2006-10-14T07:06:20Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.506</id>
<created>2006-10-14T07:06:20Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">It&apos;d appear next time you visit LAS, you&apos;d be more likely to lose money at the casino and less likely to lose luggage at the airport, thanks to RFID. OK, other things: I got around to uploading Hinemoa: with notes...</summary>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>current events</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>It'd appear next time you visit <abbr title="McCarran International Airport">LAS</abbr>, you'd be more likely to lose money at the casino and <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15235999/">less likely to lose luggage at the airport, thanks to <abbr title="Radio Frequency Identification">RFID</abbr></a>.</p>

<p>OK, other things: I got around to <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000500.html">uploading</a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#fletcher-1907"><cite>Hinemoa: with notes and vocabulary</cite> (1907)</a> by Henry James Fletcher this afternoon, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/downloads/pdf/002-pd/1907-whitcombe-and-tombs-fletcher-hinemoa-with-notes-and-vocabulary-01.pdf">scanned from a public domain copy</a> in the <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/"><abbr title="Victoria University of Wellington">VUW</abbr> library</a>.</p>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Next book</title>
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<modified>2006-10-08T04:06:30Z</modified>
<issued>2006-10-08T03:52:14Z</issued>
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<created>2006-10-08T03:52:14Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Things are still happenin&apos; at Section 27(1) Books at the moment, but after noticing there were no books in te reo in Project Gutenberg and only one with M&amp;#257;ori as a supporting/secondary language in Distributed Proofreaders, I found, got cleared...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
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<dc:subject>Section 27(1)</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>Things are still happenin' at <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/"><cite>Section 27(1) Books</cite></a> at the moment, but after noticing there were no books in <em lang="mi-nz">te reo</em> in <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> and only one with M&#257;ori as a supporting/secondary language in <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">Distributed Proofreaders</a>, I found, got cleared and scanned a short book on a legend this week -- shortest scan I've ever done. Once I finish up for the term, I'll properly mention the title and post it. It's not quite a, uh, book on my usual topic area (something from the <cite>Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives</cite>, that is), but it's a nice distraction/relaxation from the usual.</p>

<p>It's a rather interesting book. Only pages 5 through 11 are actually in M&#257;ori to be honest, and the rest of the 28 pages are taken up by a preface, notes and a nice little vocabulary list. Being from the early 1900s, it also is 'pre-macrons'. Disregarding the commentary, methinks this would make it the first primarily M&#257;ori book in <abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr>. I was hoping to find a book written only in <em lang="mi-nz">te reo</em>, though. I'll try again next week for another text. Maybe I'll hit paydirt.</p>]]>

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<title>Mazengarb Report recommendations</title>
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<modified>2006-09-10T14:20:58Z</modified>
<issued>2006-09-10T14:03:00Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.495</id>
<created>2006-09-10T14:03:00Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">When I wrote the original Wikipedia article on the Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents, I didn&apos;t include the recommendations -- I just summarised the conclusions. I&apos;ve now written a summary of the recommendations...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>youth issues</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>When I wrote the original <cite>Wikipedia</cite> article on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazengarb_Report"><cite>Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents</cite></a>, I didn't include the recommendations -- I just <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazengarb_Report&amp;oldid=9174518">summarised the conclusions</a>. I've now <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazengarb_Report&amp;oldid=74895581#Recommendations">written a summary of the recommendations</a> as well. Enjoy. As it is <cite>Wikipedia</cite>, anyone now within good reason has cause to edit them. Have fun...</p>]]>
<![CDATA[<p>Oh yeah, and here they are, as it were when I just <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazengarb_Report&amp;oldid=74895581">finished the edit</a>:</p>

<blockquote cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mazengarb_Report&amp;oldid=74895581#Recommendations"><p>The recommendations (pages 66 to 68) covered legislative <b>proposals</b>, administrative <b>suggestions</b> and even 'parental example'. Highlights included (not a complete list; sorted by subject):</p><ul><li><b>Crime:</b><ul><li><i>Research:</i> Longterm research into 'all aspects' of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_delinquency">juvenile delinquency</a> should begin.</li><li><i>Suggested legislative changes:</i> That both girls and boys (implication being underage persons) should be chargeable with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indecent_conduct&amp;action=edit">indecent conduct</a>. Additionally, if children are summonsed, their parents should be similarly compelled to attend court, and that courts should have the power (if the parent's behaviour was said to have 'conduced' the child's offending) to order parents pay fines, court costs and give an assurance of the child's 'future good behaviour'. (Other sanctions suggested by the Committee included suspending <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_security">social security</a> benefits relating to the child.)</li><li><i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Police">Police</a>:</i> That <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policewomen">policewomens</a>' duties and training should include dealing with 'girls involved in sexual offences'.</li><li><i>Social welfare:</i> That <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_welfare">child welfare</a> should become an autonomous service under the Minister of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Social_Welfare&amp;action=edit">Social Welfare</a>. </li></ul></li><li><b>Censorship:</b><ul><li><i>Print publications:</i> That tightening of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship">censorship</a> laws should occur to take into account 'undue emphasis on sex, crime or horror'. Additionally, that distributors of print publications be registered, with the spectre of cancellation of this licence to print or distribute should they distribute 'objectionable publications' under proposed legislation.</li><li><i>Films and other publications generally:</i> That the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Internal_Affairs_%28New_Zealand%29">Department of Internal Affairs</a>' film censorship office finish gazetting some regulations they were authorised to do. Overall, that they and other censorship authorities should liaise regularly to maintain 'a uniform interpretation of public opinion and taste'.</li><li><i>Radio:</i> That the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_broadcasting_in_New_Zealand#Radio">New Zealand Broadcasting Service</a> make sure the <i>crime must never pay</i> is 'more prominently featured' in their radio dramas, and a 'married woman' be appointing to their 'auditioning panel' 'immediately'. </li></ul></li><li><b>Education:</b><ul><li><i>Schools:</i> That the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Education_%28New_Zealand%29">Department of Education</a> consider would be the best way to deal with 'problem pupils in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Post-primary_schools&amp;action=edit">post-primary schools</a>'.</li><li><i>Community groups:</i> That the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Education_%28New_Zealand%29">Department of Education</a> consider allowing 'responsible organisations' use of 'school grounds and buildings' in areas with 'a lack of facilities for recreation and entertainment'.</li><li><i>Housing:</i> That the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Education_%28New_Zealand%29">Department of Education</a> consider requesting that some houses in 'housing settlements' be set aside for schoolteachers.</li><li><i>Parental example:</i> That 'new laws' and 'stricter administration' might 'allay the well-founded fears of many parents', but that the risk was that parents might relax 'their own efforts'. 'Wise parenthood implies firm control and continual interest in the doings of sons and daughters', the Committee advised, but also said that parents' own conduct would be the 'best example for the <i>[...]</i> rising generation'. </li></ul></li></ul></blockquote>]]>
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<title>Yesterday&apos;s book now uploaded</title>
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<modified>2006-09-08T07:18:25Z</modified>
<issued>2006-09-08T06:59:25Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.493</id>
<created>2006-09-08T06:59:25Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">All right, after some nice and constructive thoughts from Russell Brown (thanks, Russell!), I&apos;ve uploaded the book that I scanned yesterday, A Plea for the Criminal (1903), as a scanned PDF file. It may be worth noting that this PDF...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
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<![CDATA[<p>All right, after some nice and constructive <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000492.html#comment-564">thoughts from Russell Brown</a> (thanks, <a href="http://www.publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm">Russell</a>!), I've uploaded the book that I scanned yesterday, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#kayll-1905"><cite>A Plea for the Criminal</cite> (1903)</a>, as a <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/downloads/pdf/002-pd/1905-smith-kayll-a-plea-for-the-criminal-002-scanning-attempt-02.pdf">scanned <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> file</a>.</p>

<p>It may be worth noting that this <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> file is <strong>not</strong> searchable; it hasn't had even a crude <abbr title="Optical Character Recognition">OCR</abbr> process run over it -- that said, it <strong>will</strong> as usual be sent through <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr></a> for posting on <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a> as a searchable text e-book.</p>

<p>As <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000492.html#comment-564">Russell suggests</a> (I wouldn't use <q cite="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000492.html#comment-564">fancy-ass</q> to describe <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/"><abbr title="Victoria University of Wellington">VUW</abbr></a>'s non-library-maintained photocopiers, though, but hey, hehe, that's just me -- I just used them because they're there to use, and scanning to e-mail is one of the functions they have), having just the <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> file for download is probably easier. Certainly it's probably easier than converting the whole <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> file into <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/gallery/main.php">separate <abbr title="Portable Network Graphics">PNG</abbr> files for uploading to the Gallery album</a>, which I've done previously for other books. I may continue doing that, but I'll think about it for the time being.</p>

<p>As long as I'm still around <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/"><abbr title="Victoria University of Wellington">VUW</abbr></a>, the speed of these photocopiers' scanning facilities should be bloody useful. Cropping is a much harder, but that scanning speed makes up quite nicely, and then some. <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:)</kbd></p>

<p>Happy reading. I still haven't worked out what to make of the fold-out section between pages 150 and 151 in the book, though.</p>]]>

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<title>Now, if only...</title>
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<modified>2006-09-08T15:07:57Z</modified>
<issued>2006-09-07T13:57:17Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.492</id>
<created>2006-09-07T13:57:17Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">...Google Maps had street level coverage of my street. (Now, if you don&apos;t want my mini-essay which I wrote for my own amusement, you may want to skip straight to the thoughts I have on my latest batch of scanning...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
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<dc:subject>Section 27(1)</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>...<a href="http://maps.google.com/">Google Maps</a> had <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/on-map-down-under.html">street level coverage</a> of my street. (Now, if you don't want my mini-essay which I wrote for my own amusement, you may want to skip straight to <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000492.html#entry-2006-09-08-492-s27-scanning">the thoughts I have on my latest batch of scanning for <cite><abbr title="Section 27(1)">S27(1)</abbr></cite>'s scanned books collection</a>. Hehe!)</p><p>They do do street maps -- it's just got no <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/happy-birthday-google-earth.html">satellite imagery at street level</a> for my suburb and then some: a good chunk of <a href="http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/">Lower Hutt</a> is <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Lower+Hutt,+New+Zealand&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=14&amp;ll=-41.213594,174.915562&amp;spn=0.028409,0.085831&amp;t=h&amp;om=1&amp;iwloc=A">missing from the coverage</a> (at time of writing).</p><p>With the new <a href="http://googlemapsapi.blogspot.com/2006/09/australia-and-new-zealand-get.html">address to location translation</a> on offer, it would be nice if the, uh, hole (no pun intended) in coverage were fixed. (Incidentally, the Windows version of the Google Earth client isn't much better <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20google%20earth%20coverage%20gap%20placemarks.kmz">when looking at Lower Hutt</a> [see also below]; it appears to currently use the same data set as Google Earth for Lower Hutt -- you could <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%2520google%2520earth%2520coverage%2520gap%2520placemarks.kmz">also try these same coordinates in Google Maps</a> if you can be bothered.) If it were, maybe I could put together some nice mapping stuff.</p><p>But then, there's a million other mapping websites with New Zealand coverage around, with at least one with <a href="http://www.zoomin.co.nz/nz/lower+hutt/">apparently better street level aerial coverage</a> (as in no holes in coverage, actual image quality being another matter -- hey, at least it's consistent!), and most that I use for every day purposes are developed in and for the local market here. That's not to mention the <a href="http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/">city council</a>'s <a href="http://gis.huttcity.govt.nz/pes/">property information database</a> has <strong>really</strong> good images of individual properties. Some, though, concentrate on street maps as opposed to aerial maps or satellite imagery, but make up with their trip planning features (two, <a href="http://www.metlink.org.nz/">Metlink</a> and <a href="http://maps.yellowpages.co.nz/">Yellow Pages</a>, claim they do walking directions, too).</p><p>I wonder if I should re-learn some programming to get myself away from all the stuff I'm doing for graduate school for a nice little bit of recreation and perhaps do a localised mapping thing (Jabber map stuff sounds like an idea here) for amusement.</p><p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20maps.google.com%20coverage%20gap.png"><img style="border-style: none" alt="Anyway, here's what Google Maps currently looks like to me with its gap in street level satellite imagery coverage when I search for Lower Hutt." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20maps.google.com%20coverage%20gap-thumb.png" width="240" height="180" /></a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20google%20earth%20coverage%20gap%20closeup.jpg"><img style="border-style: none" alt="Here's a closeup of what Google Earth sees of Lower Hutt at the moment -- note the change in detail." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20google%20earth%20coverage%20gap%20closeup-thumb.jpg" width="240" height="191" /></a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20google%20earth%20coverage%20gap%20wide.jpg"><img style="border-style: none" alt="Now, here's the extent of the gaps in street level coverage of Lower Hutt in Google Earth at the moment; it's currently the same as Google Maps." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/images/2006-09-08%20google%20earth%20coverage%20gap%20wide-thumb.jpg" width="240" height="193" /></a></p><h4 id="entry-2006-09-08-492-s27-scanning">And, another book scanned</h4><p>On other matters, I scanned another book today. Yay for high speed multifunction photocopiers that e-mail on stuff in <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr>! Which while I'm on that subject, I've done the same for a few other books that will be released on to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">Distributed Proofreaders</a> on September 20 as birthday texts for proofing.</p><p>I'll announce what those ones are closer to the day, but in the meantime, I've scanned <cite>A Plea for the Criminal</cite> (1905). It's a response (and on first skim through while scanning it, a critical response) by an ordained minister to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16254">a book I got through <abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr> earlier</a> that sounded to me like something on eugenics, and that went by the name of <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#chapple-1903"><cite>The Fertility of the Unfit</cite> (1903)</a>.</p><p>I'm debating if I want to have images up as I've done so previously, or just have the <abbr title="Portable Document Format">PDF</abbr> (that the photocopier spat out at me) available -- or both. Feedback would certainly be appreciated on this. (Thanks in advance!) If someone wants <cite>A Plea for the Criminal</cite> before I get around to properly posting it online, let me know and I'll either email it through somehow, or actually get around to posting it. I blame grad school for my lack of alacrity. Heh.</p><p>It doesn't mean that <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000491.html">my attempts to find additional sources for material to scan</a> (legally, of course) that is <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/">Section 27(1) compliant</a> is bearing some success, necessarily, or even at all -- I do hope it does -- but I have found some stuff that should keep me occupied while I do look for things more relevant to my grad school study and research -- though today's scanned book is very much related in some aspects (say, related to <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000486.html">the eugenics stuff someone found in a text I'd also scanned</a> and put through <abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr>).</p><h4 id="entry-2006-09-08-492-ibiblio-move">ibiblio server move</h4><p>The wonderful folks (<a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/">ibiblio</a>) that host <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/"><cite>Section 27(1)</cite></a>, the <a href="http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/dr-fun-changes/">dr-fun-changes mailing list</a>, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/">this diary you're reading right now</a>, the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/wscfap/"><abbr title="Student Christian Movement">SCM</abbr> e-book editions</a>, and even some <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/nikster/">teddy bear satire</a> (which I must admit is not really being updated at the moment, partly due to worries over chewing up ibiblio's precious disc space), are having some stuff happening from <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=8&amp;month=9&amp;year=2006&amp;hour=22&amp;min=0&amp;sec=0&amp;p1=0">Saturday, 9 September at 10am (<abbr title="New Zealand Standard Time">NZST</abbr>)</a> until <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=9&amp;month=9&amp;year=2006&amp;hour=22&amp;min=0&amp;sec=0&amp;p1=0">Sunday, 10 September at 10am (<abbr title="New Zealand Standard Time">NZST</abbr>)</a>. Apparently there <strong>may</strong> be some interruption in service; mail will be down for a wee bit and I won't be able to post, but the site should stay up.</p><p>One more time, thanks people for the hosting! Trying to host lots of scans of books to show the publisher's original intent (something I don't think a formatted e-text like what Project Gutenberg do) is rather (though methinks for the value of the intent, not unreasonable or overly onerous) disc intensive (not to mention slightly more demanding on bandwidth and traffic if you get the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect"><cite>Slashdot</cite> effect</a> or even <a href="http://www.publicaddress.net/default,3436.sm">a comparatively minor '<cite>Public Address</cite> effect'</a>), so everything's appreciated. <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:)</kbd></p>]]>

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<title>Sold your phone lately? Or checked your antivirus program lately?</title>
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<modified>2006-09-07T14:36:40Z</modified>
<issued>2006-08-31T09:55:50Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.491</id>
<created>2006-08-31T09:55:50Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"><![CDATA[So, you erased the information as the manual said? Seems like flash memory on phones is a little bit more resilient than you'd want it to be in this situation. Also from MSNBC today:Write an e-mail that actually gets read&nbsp;--...]]></summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>InternetNZ</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>So, you erased the information as the manual said? Seems like <a href="http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14588433/">flash memory on phones is a little bit more resilient than you'd want it to be</a> in this situation. Also from <abbr title="Microsoft NBC">MSNBC</abbr> today:</p><ul><li><a href="http://tech.msn.com/howto/article.aspx?cp-documentid=823611">Write an e-mail that actually gets read</a>&nbsp;-- one (opinionated?) person's view on the matter.</li><li>I'm glad my only potentially difficult encounter with a cell phone company (Vodafone New Zealand) over a billing issue (I was happy to pay the money in this case, I should add, so there wasn't a dispute there) wasn't hard to solve -- one phone call and I never (as they promised) heard back. Apparently it's <a href="http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/08/cell_phone_comp.html">no fun at all</a> in a certain other place. Mirroring that, <a href="http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/08/fraud_alert_sys.html">credit reports aren't either</a>.</li><li>Last up for me, there's a debate about <a href="http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/08/consumer_report.html">the ethics of creating variants of viruses for a consumer test</a>. This is an interesting one -- I can see how creating variants can help antivirus vendors develop better heuristic logic and so on, but it just doesn't seem right.</li></ul><p>I've also had a bit of an enlightening day on some new sources of volumes for scanning from for the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/">Section 27(1) books</a> today. If it comes to something, I'll write again.</p>]]>

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<title>Hospital services in 1973</title>
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<modified>2006-08-30T04:03:00Z</modified>
<issued>2006-08-30T03:33:42Z</issued>
<id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2006:/ahkitj/diaries/tph//1.490</id>
<created>2006-08-30T03:33:42Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">While going through my Project Gutenberg clearances last night, I noticed I&apos;d forgotten about scanning another book I&apos;d got cleared -- the March 1973 tome Services for the Mentally Handicapped: Third Report of The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Hospital...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</url>
<email>jonathan@ibiblio.org</email>
</author>
<dc:subject>Section 27(1)</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>While going through my <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> clearances last night, I noticed I'd forgotten about scanning another book I'd got cleared -- the March 1973 tome <cite>Services for the Mentally Handicapped: Third Report of The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Hospital and Related Services</cite>. I recall submitting this royal commission report for clearance as a test case for (what should be) Section 27(1)-compliant texts, especially given that it was just 19 pages.</p>

<p>The other reason I think was the use of 'the mentally handicapped'. From what I can tell, it appears the more acceptable term nowadays is 'people with intellectual disabilities'. From a changes over time perspective, it's interesting.</p>

<p>I'll write again later once the scans are cleaned up.</p>

<p>Access is starting to dry up for scans of parliamentary papers, so I'm not sure what I'll be able to do next. At this stage, I'm thinking of doing huge 455-page March 1977 behemoth that is <cite>Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion in New Zealand: Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry</cite>, if I can think of a way to easily scan a large volume. At least I'm not likely to even risk a fraction of a chance of destroying the spines of one of the many volumes of the <cite><abbr title="Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives">AJHR</abbr></cite> -- I've found a reasonably good looking standalone copy of this report. Having a quick skim through it, there's even a chapter on the consequences of refused abortions (the procedure being practically illegal in New Zealand at the time, if I recall correctly). Egads. It's distressing stuff, the whole report.</p>

<p>It's great to be able to put up recent stuff in to Project Gutenberg. It's not just 'classic' texts in the pre-1922 copyright sense of the word -- for me, it's more that some of the texts I've put up are damned hard to get hold of (the irony for me is that I wanted to read some in a hurry).</p>

<p>On a related note, while in the <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/collections/un/index.aspx">Official Publications section</a> of the <a href="http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/"><abbr title="Victoria University of Wellington">VUW</abbr> Library</a> today, I was told by the librarian in attendance that the <cite>Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives</cite> (sometimes I've also seen it variously as <cite>Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand</cite> and <cite>Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand</cite> for whatever reason -- fortunately practically everyone calls it <cite><abbr title="Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives">AJHR</abbr></cite>, though) has been renamed <cite>New Zealand Parliamentary Papers</cite>. (That is, she said, unless I wanted subject group I -- which as those eagle-eyed will know are select committee reports. Most of what I grab is in subject group H, or 'reports of commissions and committees of inquiry'.)</p>]]>

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<title>Abortion in New Zealand in 1937</title>
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<modified>2006-08-27T14:12:21Z</modified>
<issued>2006-08-27T13:55:22Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">Well, in 1937, it was illegal in New Zealand. Apparently I&apos;ve forgotten that I&apos;ve had the McMillan Report, or 1937&apos;s Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand, available in...</summary>
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<name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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<![CDATA[<p>Well, in 1937, it was illegal in New Zealand.</p> <p>Apparently I've forgotten that I've had the McMillan Report, or 1937's <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#abortion-1937"><cite>Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand</cite></a>, <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/gallery/v/1937-ajhr-03-h-31a-abortion/">available in scanned form</a> <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000435.html">for some time now</a>. Having forgotten to send it through <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a> <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Distributed Proofreaders">DP</abbr></a>, it's now on my queue of things to send through. (Note: I'm guessing given the topic, some discretion would probably be advised with regards to reading the report.)</p> <p>To sum up the report, the committee concludes that economic issues, unmarried mothers, 'fears of childbirth' and 'changes in social and moral outlook' (page 26).</p> <p>As to solutions, it suggests that 'full publicity' should be made of the facts laid out in the inquiry (page 28).</p> <p>It suggests that with regards to contraceptives, that for the 'problem of the unmarried mother' things might be resolved by banning the sale of them to 'the young' (page 27). This is an interesting mirror of the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#mazengarb-1954">Mazengarb Report</a>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazengarb_Report#Conclusions_and_recommendations">conclusions</a> 17 years later, following the start of the post-war baby boom.</p> <p>Whether you think abortion is an abomination (or a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mortal_sin&amp;oldid=68494435">mortal sin</a>, perhaps), et cetera, or that it's a case of a woman's choice, or any view along the continuum, really, reading a report like this is conjunction with others makes interesting reading in charting the change in social attitudes over time. It helps knowing the past, methinks.</p> <p>This adds on to the list of reports that I've scanned that <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000487.html">I want to write a review of</a> and or <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000484.html">write an expanded analysis of</a>. Anyone else want to try before I find the time? I don't mind if I'm beaten to it, though I'll try to find the time to write one of my own either way. Let me know if you want to -- I'd favourably consider linking to it.</p>]]>

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<title>1955&apos;s Mazengarb followup ready for proofing</title>
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<modified>2006-08-24T15:14:25Z</modified>
<issued>2006-08-24T15:11:02Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">For your Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders proofreading pleasure, and sooner than expected, too, that 1955 followup to the Mazengarb Report, the Report of Juvenile Delinquency Committee, is now available for proofreading on Distributed Proofreaders. You&apos;ll need to log in (and...</summary>
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<dc:subject>youth issues</dc:subject>
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<![CDATA[<p>For your <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">Distributed Proofreaders</a> proofreading pleasure, and <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/tph/archives/000487.html#unexpected-488">sooner than expected, too</a>, that 1955 followup to the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#mazengarb-1954">Mazengarb Report</a>, the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#juvenile-1955"><cite>Report of Juvenile Delinquency Committee</cite></a>, is now <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID44ecfce940767&amp;expected_state=P1.proj_avail&amp;detail_level=2">available for proofreading</a> on Distributed Proofreaders. You'll need to log in (and if you're new, register) first to proofread some pages. (If you still can't access the proofing page for the book, just manually search for it on the site.)</p>]]>

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