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    <title>the power house</title>
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    <updated>2007-10-22T19:53:04Z</updated>
    <subtitle>web news management for hydroelectric power stations!</subtitle>
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    <title>Some more photographs</title>
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    <published>2007-10-22T19:34:28Z</published>
    <updated>2007-10-22T19:53:04Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I still can&apos;t say yet exactly what&apos;s happening with my scanning project yet, unfortunately, though it&apos;s heading along the lines of good news at this stage. In the meantime, here&apos;s some more photographs to keep everyone occupied and believing that...</summary>
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        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I still can't say yet exactly <a href="http://www.publicaddress.net/system/topic,595,hard_news_in_the_music.sm?p=23704#post23704">what's happening</a> with <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/">my scanning project</a> yet, unfortunately, though it's heading along the lines of good news at this stage. In the meantime, here's some more photographs to keep everyone occupied and believing that I'm really alive still at <a href="http://www.psu.edu/">Penn State</a>. Really. Anyway, here they are:</p>

<ol><li><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/1512888308/" title="There's this really nice statue outside the Business Building at Penn State."><img style="vertical-align: text-top; border-style: none; " src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/1512888308_676bde66bd_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="There's this really nice statue outside the Business Building at Penn State." /></a></p><p>I was rather taken aback by this statue outside the <a href="http://www.smeal.psu.edu/">Smeal College of Business</a>. The building itself uses a lot of glass windows, and methinks is quite pretty in places.</p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/1552531575/" title="There is some random fountain that is outside the Forum Building."><img style="vertical-align: text-top; border-style: none; " src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1552531575_b513b8798f_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="There is some random fountain, outside the Forum Building." /></a></p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/1553433414/" title="I was lucky to catch the sunset outside Sheetz, on North Atherton Street, State College, one evening"><img style="vertical-align: text-top; border-style: none; " src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2019/1553433414_287ed78435_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="I was lucky to catch the sunset outside Sheetz, on North Atherton Street, State College, one evening." /></a></p><p>State College and University Park are very fortunate to have some very pretty sunsets through the year, sun or snow. Rain, too -- sometimes.</p></li><li><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/1590721181/" title="Notice something about the bookshelf labels?"><img style="vertical-align: text-top; border-style: none; " src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2076/1590721181_51b3be2af3_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Notice something about the bookshelf labels?" /></a></p><p>I was at the local Barnes &amp; Noble in State College, and the person with me and I noticed that Love &amp; Sex and Sexuality were both next to Addiction/Recovery.</p><p>Oops, maybe?</p></li></ol>

<p>Anyway, that's probably enough for now. And I'm still alive. Yay! More photographs later!</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Back already</title>
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    <published>2007-09-25T19:29:27Z</published>
    <updated>2007-09-25T19:43:40Z</updated>
    
    <summary>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>
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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>All together now...</title>
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    <published>2007-09-13T17:29:09Z</published>
    <updated>2007-09-13T17:35:36Z</updated>
    
    <summary>... it&apos;s that time again, kids! Vote early, and vote often! (Whomever you vote for doesn&apos;t bother me that much. And no, I&apos;m not saying vote multiple times and get yourself done for electoral fraud. I hear it&apos;s not particularly...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>... it's <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/local_elections_2007.html">that time</a> again, kids!</p>

<p>Vote early, and vote often! (Whomever you vote for doesn't bother me that much. And no, I'm not saying vote multiple times and get yourself done for electoral fraud. I hear it's not particularly nice to get caught doing that.)</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Classes starting!</title>
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    <published>2007-08-27T07:27:34Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-27T07:41:37Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Well, I&apos;m back at Penn State University Park. Things are going quite well, mostly. I&apos;ve visited family in San Francisco, visited friends in Tempe, I&apos;ve got my luggage and summer storage (and thus room) somewhat re-unpacked (well, just unpacked for...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Well, I'm back at <a href="http://www.psu.edu/">Penn State University Park</a>. Things are going quite well, mostly. I've visited family in San Francisco, visited friends in Tempe, I've got my luggage and summer storage (and thus room) somewhat re-unpacked (well, just unpacked for the summer storage), I've checked that the Ethernet socket in my room is obviously now working, my <abbr title="United States">US</abbr> phone numbers now work sort of properly (or, they just bearably work), I've had pre-semester meetings with supervisors, I've remembered how to catch buses around here, I've remembered how to use the dining halls and the associated meal plans, I'm finding out my favourite bus stop has been removed in favour of a bigger one in a less useful (to me) spot, I'm trying to remember to call home, and I'm tired after all of that (and then some things I'm not going to tell in a public diary). I'm helping with some teaching and research this term, among the big changes about to happen in my life (the other one I'll admit to here is being starting to enjoy the <abbr title="United States">US</abbr> university style).</p>

<p>I guess that's the end of my winter vacation in New Zealand, then. Or was that my summer vacation?</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Captions without pictures</title>
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    <published>2007-07-17T10:50:22Z</published>
    <updated>2007-07-17T11:57:19Z</updated>
    
    <summary>OK, Time managed to do what I initially didn&apos;t think (easily) possible -- write about lolcats (and I Can Has Cheezburger?) without really showing one (not counting the one at the top of the online version of the article, which...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>OK, <cite>Time</cite> managed to do what I initially didn't think (easily) possible -- <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1642897,00.html">write</a> about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcats">lolcats</a> (and <a href="http://icanhascheezburger.com/"><cite>I Can Has Cheezburger?</cite></a>) without really showing one (not counting the one at the top of the online version of the article, which doesn't appear to me to be an example, and if it actually is, it's not as funny as other lolcats out there).</p>

<p>(Tonight, someone mentioned to me about the <a href="http://ideas.4brad.com/icann-has-cheezburger"><acronym title="Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers">ICANN</acronym> Has Cheezburger!</a> one. Which reminded me, as I spotted <a href="http://www.icann.org/biog/thrush.htm">at least one InternetNZ person</a> in the photo and the photo credit to <a href="http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/">a InternetNZ I know</a> that it's <a href="http://www.internetnz.net.nz/events/agm-2007/index.html"><abbr title="Annual General Meeting">AGM</abbr> time</a>, once again. Pity I'll be in Dunedin on the night. Yay for proxies!)</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Kiwi losers (uh, spammers) not to buy scooters from</title>
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    <published>2007-07-14T20:54:42Z</published>
    <updated>2007-07-14T21:13:43Z</updated>
    
    <summary>OK, now and again I get advertisements sent to me, and I just know it can&apos;t be permission marketing, because they&apos;re not often addresses I give permission to send me crap at. (Yes, I know they&apos;re not the first people...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>OK, now and again I get advertisements sent to me, and I just know it can't be permission marketing, because they're not often addresses I give permission to send me crap at. (Yes, I know they're not the first people to try this.)</p>

<p>So, when a New Zealand outfit that shall remain nameless within the .co.nz domain with the words 'me' and 'bike' in it (not in that order) send me spam from a United States-based <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address (and upstream appear from that that they may be sending it from a Chinese <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address), I'm suspicious about them.</p>

<p>I'd like to give them benefit of the doubt, but wouldn't using a New Zealand Internet provider instead of a Chinese one be cheaper? It does sound like someone's got something to hide. (On balance, if they are indeed using a private computer of theirs to send the mail, dialup to China is surely expensive. They could be using a <abbr title="Virtual Private Network">VPN</abbr> setup, but then the question is why bother?) Some further analysis of the domain shows they appear to be using the same provider for their mailout as they are for their domain's website, mailserver and nameserver, so the immediately preceding <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address can be explained, but not the Chinese <abbr title="Internet Protocol">IP</abbr> address they appeared to use upstream, nor that I can't find that I've ever communicated with this outfit before.)</p>

<p>So if you get an advertisement to buy scooters imploring you to save on carbon emissions and all that emotive stuff to get you to buy, don't do it from these losers. Well, guys -- keeping your computers on sending this spam is <strong>helping</strong> produce carbon emissions.</p>

<p>Heck, even the whois points to a marketing company. Guess they haven't done their homework.</p>

<p>The new <a href="http://www.legislation.govt.nz/libraries/contents/om_isapi.dll?clientID=3776853757&amp;infobase=pal_statutes.nfo&amp;record={A285A}&amp;hitsperheading=on&amp;softpage=DOC">anti-spam law</a> could not come sooner. Don't buy the scooters from these losers -- don't encourage them to send spam.</p>

<p>(And a final note to the company in question: don't spam me again.)</p>]]>
        
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    <title>A busy life, but another Project Gutenberg book is now finished!</title>
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    <published>2007-07-06T17:33:29Z</published>
    <updated>2007-07-07T19:34:17Z</updated>
    
    <summary>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>
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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>Welcome back to New Zealand, locked mobile handsets!</title>
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    <published>2007-05-29T19:12:48Z</published>
    <updated>2007-06-11T17:53:38Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Coincidentally, I hear of a certain something while I am looking for a new handset to use on Telecom NZ&apos;s CDMA network (think worn out buttons) -- the sooner I get it the better, as Telecom are going to make...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Coincidentally, I hear of a certain something while I am looking for a new handset to use on <a href="http://www.telecom.co.nz/">Telecom <abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr></a>'s <abbr title="Code Division Multiple Access">CDMA</abbr> network (think worn out buttons) -- the sooner I get it the better, as Telecom are going to make it obsolete <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&amp;objectid=10442621">by moving to <abbr title="Global System for Mobile Communications">GSM</abbr></a>, or the network type <a href="http://www.vodafone.co.nz/">Vodafone <abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr></a> currently use. (Albeit for voice they're using <abbr title="Global System for Mobile Communications">GSM</abbr> for, anyway, it seems... <a href="http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/3019">data might run on something else</a> if I read things right. If I have.)</p>

<p>Which can only mean one annoying thing for someone like me -- I'll have to put up with locked handsets once again. It's something I recall Vodafone did when I had my first (prepaid) handset with them (oddly, that Alcatel One Touch Easy was locked so that their postpaid <acronym title="Subscriber Identification Module">SIM</acronym> cards couldn't use it, though I see that Telstra Australia still do that sort of thing), but I found that by the time I got mine, they were already it seems giving out the unlock code for phones at that time fairly readily (I recall being told at the time that they didn't bother with locks anymore because handset subsidies were no longer being made; it also seemed they weren't too worried about losing roaming revenue from customers putting overseas operators' cards in while overseas). Doubtful they'll be doing that once Telecom gets their <abbr title="Global System for Mobile Communications">GSM</abbr> act together.</p>

<p>Sure, I want phone companies to recoup their handset subsidies, but I don't want even a slightly confusing unlocking regime like that used in Australia (what I dislike there is at least two carriers' attempts to extract money <a href="http://www.vodafone.com.au/Personal/HelpSupport/YourMobile/Unlockingyourhandset/index.htm">after</a> what would seem to be a reasonable <a href="http://telstramobile.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/telstramobile.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=392&amp;p_created=1080684392&amp;p_sid=P8TwySCi&amp;p_lva=393&amp;p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MTk5JnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9JnBfcHY9JnBfY3Y9JnBfcGFnZT0xJnBfc2VhcmNoX3RleHQ9Im5ldHdvcmsgbG9ja2VkIg**&amp;p_li=&amp;p_topview=1">length of time</a>). The best I've had so far for locked handsets is <a href="http://www.t-mobile.com/">T-Mobile <abbr title="United States of America">USA</abbr></a>: 90 days' account standing and they give it to you the unlock code with no questions or fee. At least that's what they told me when I signed up. (Which I should check seeing I have an 850/1900 <abbr title="megahertz">MHz</abbr> handset somewhere they sold me that's ripe for asking about. Too bad what I have read about Telecom's proposed network build doesn't mention whether it'll work on their network if it does end up using 850 <abbr title="megahertz">MHz</abbr> for voice. Gut feeling says no, though.)</p>

<p>So, the returning spectre of locked handsets to New Zealand would appear to be imminent. Tasty.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Reappearance!</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/cgi-bin/movabletype/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=544" title="Reappearance!" />
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    <published>2007-05-08T05:39:02Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-08T05:43:14Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I reappear in NZ next week! I think. At least I will when I get around to packing my belongings for the suitcases. And summer storage. And my semester of short entries will end on my return. Hopefully. (Note to...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="Pennsylvania State University" />
            <category term="Student Christian Movement Aotearoa" />
            <category term="school" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>I reappear in <abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr> next week!</p>

<p>I think.</p>

<p>At least I will when I get around to packing my belongings for the suitcases.</p>

<p>And summer storage.</p>

<p>And my semester of short entries will end on my return. Hopefully.</p>

<p>(<em>Note to self:</em> apparently the <a href="http://www.airnz.co.nz/travelinfo/baggageinformation/cabin_baggage.htm">cabin baggage allowance on Air New Zealand</a> has changed. Sigh.)</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Another patch in the works</title>
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    <link rel="service.edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/cgi-bin/movabletype/mt-atom.cgi/weblog/blog_id=1/entry_id=542" title="Another patch in the works" />
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    <published>2007-04-29T13:11:51Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-29T13:18:50Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Oh, brilliant. I&apos;ll need to load up another blasted time zone patch, so my computers back in NZ don&apos;t get too confused. That&apos;s in addition to the one I already had to install for dealing with the US changes, too....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
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            <category term="InternetNZ" />
            <category term="Pennsylvania State University" />
            <category term="current events" />
            <category term="esoterica" />
            <category term="internal networks" />
            <category term="systems" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Oh, brilliant. I'll need to load up <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10436995"><strong>another</strong> blasted time zone patch</a>, so my computers back in <abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr> don't get too confused. That's in addition to the one I already had to install for <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&amp;objectid=10428358">dealing with the <abbr title="United States">US</abbr> changes</a>, too.</p>

<p>Now, will all the major operating system vendors issue patches in time for the <a href="http://www.stats.govt.nz/populationclock.htm">4,182,612 people</a> that will be directly affected by this, I have no idea.</p>

<p>Sigh.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>25 degrees!</title>
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    <published>2007-04-22T21:27:34Z</published>
    <updated>2007-04-22T23:28:22Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Yes, I&apos;m still alive, just. But right now in University Park at 5.27 in the afternoon on Sunday 22 April, PA, it&apos;s 25 degrees Celsius. Egads. I&apos;m a bit too busy to write much right now, though I will try...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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            <category term="Pennsylvania State University" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Yes, I'm still alive, just. But right now <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;zipcode=16802&amp;metric=1">in University Park</a> at 5.27 in the afternoon on Sunday 22 April, <abbr title="Pennsylvania">PA</abbr>, it's 25 degrees Celsius. Egads.</p>

<p>I'm a bit too busy to write much right now, though I will try to. Next semester (autumn) should be better.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Hackers fake Howard heart attack</title>
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    <published>2007-02-20T22:17:04Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-20T22:23:16Z</updated>
    
    <summary>I just got a rather large stack of spammy e-mail messages saying that the John Howard we all know as the prime minister of Australia just &apos;survived&apos; a &apos;heard attack (sic)&apos;. Another says a &apos;hear attack (sic)&apos;. Yeah, whatever. I&apos;m...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I just got a rather large stack of spammy e-mail messages saying that the John Howard we all know as the prime minister of Australia just 'survived' a 'heard attack (sic)'. Another says a 'hear attack (sic)'. Yeah, whatever. <a href="http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21257632-1702,00.html">I'm not the only one to get the spammy/phishy e-mail messages, though.</a> There's <a href="http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=7314">other variations</a> of the e-mail message, and <a href="http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=6645">it's been happening for a while</a>.</p>

<p>Sigh.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Holey road</title>
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    <published>2007-02-18T03:39:50Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-18T03:46:13Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Oops. Looks like Curtin Road&apos;s gone holey. Just outside the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center (and the Palmer Museum of Art, also in the Curtin Road to Allen Road area) no less, too. My puns are really bad, aren&apos;t they?...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="Pennsylvania State University" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Oops. Looks like <a href="http://live.psu.edu/story/22400">Curtin Road's gone holey</a>. Just outside the <a href="http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/buildings/spiritual.shtml" lang="en-us">Pasquerilla Spiritual Center</a> (and the <a href="http://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/">Palmer Museum of Art</a>, also in the <a href="http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/explore/palmer.shtml">Curtin Road</a> to <a href="http://www.campusmaps.psu.edu/explore/allen.shtml">Allen Road</a> area) no less, too.</p>

<p>My puns are really bad, aren't they?</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Finally! Snow!</title>
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    <published>2007-02-13T23:13:47Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-13T23:47:02Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Finally! There&apos;s a decent amount of snow in University Park/State College, PA, according to AccuWeather right now (and by my own observation, it&apos;s lots of snow), like real snow. Inches of it. Lots of it. Well, around 5 centimetres to...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
            <category term="Pennsylvania State University" />
            <category term="life" />
            <category term="photography" />
            <category term="school" />
            <category term="women&apos;s studies" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Finally! There's a decent amount of snow in University Park/State College, <abbr title="Pennsylvania">PA</abbr>, <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;zipcode=16802&amp;metric=1">according to <cite>AccuWeather</cite> right now</a> (and by my own observation, it's lots of snow), like <strong>real</strong> snow. Inches of it. Lots of it. Well, around 5 centimetres to 10 centimetres or so of it in patches. Enough to go walking through with a good crunch in places (when using some good boots, anyway). In sub-zero temperatures (that's metric I'm thinking of, by the way, though we've had sub-zero in Fahrenheit, too, on the odd day, if I recall correctly, though not today), too! <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:)</kbd></p>

<p><cite>AccuWeather</cite> also say on their <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/index-forecast.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;zipcode=16802&amp;metric=1">video forecast for State College</a> there could be a foot of snow in places, too. This will be interesting, albeit for the first time if not the subsequent snowfalls! <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:)</kbd> That said, their <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/watches-warnings.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;zipcode=16802&amp;county=PAc027&amp;zone=PAz019&amp;metric=1">warnings page for State College</a> at least looks serious on first impressions, though. (Some of the other videos are, uh, undescribable, though -- take the fun <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/media-player.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;mediacode=h20070208vblogKBilo142&amp;mediacat=vblog_kbilo&amp;getcurr=True"><cite>Confessions of a Weather Girl</cite></a> and their <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/media-player.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;mediacode=20070205FebBloopers&amp;mediacat=bloopers&amp;getcurr=True">bloopers</a>, for example. I'm not sure what I make of <a href="http://wwwa.accuweather.com/media-player.asp?partner=forecastfox&amp;mediacode=20070205ColdFrontWarmFront&amp;mediacat=lighterside&amp;getcurr=True"><cite>Battle of the Weather Girls</cite></a>, though. Something seems odd about it.)</p>

<p>I now know what snow can also mean -- <a href="http://www.psu.edu/bulletins/bluebook/long/wmnst/250.htm"><abbr title="Women's Studies">WMNST</abbr> 250 (Sexual Identity over the Life Span)</a> is cancelled tonight. <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:(</kbd> I was looking forward to tonight's class, but there's always next week. <kbd lang="x-emoticon">:)</kbd></p>

<p>Photographs of the glorious snowfall later tonight, methinks!</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Accident compensation</title>
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    <published>2007-02-08T18:40:35Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-08T18:42:50Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Who do I have to thank for New Zealand&apos;s compulsory accident insurance system and several other social rights laws? Sir Owen Woodhouse, of course....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
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            <category term="education" />
            <category term="women&apos;s studies" />
            <category term="youth issues" />
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>Who do I have to thank for New Zealand's compulsory accident insurance system and several other social rights laws? <a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&amp;objectid=10422610">Sir Owen Woodhouse</a>, of course.</p>]]>
        
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