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VERY IMPORTANT INFO: if you've voting in Wellington mayoral election, which uses STV - you don't need to rate *all* the candidates.

If there's someone you never ever ever want to be mayor, don't give them any points at all.

ONE NONE NONE.

Zero points for her.

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needs furniture

warning, make sure your bike has 2 wheels, originally uploaded by Br3nda.

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IMG_2422.JPG, originally uploaded by reedwade.

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keeping the tree warm in winter, originally uploaded by Br3nda.

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find a [fairtrade] banana http://allgoodbananas.co.nz/find-a-banana/

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I love this quote that a friend sent me, on why the poor end up paying more for less.

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
— Terry Pratchett (Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms)

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A Peaceful Moment, originally uploaded by Little Booby.

“Don’t blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back, don’t look away and don’t blink. Good luck…”

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mushrooms coriander parsely sping onions avocados spinach pears apples, red and green lemons capsicum oranges banana nashi red onion total ~= $17. Definitely cheaper than the supermarkets

in the category of things you might not know, but really should because it'll change the way you build stuff in drupal...

DRUSH.

Drush is this thing for your shell. I installed it from deb.
once installed i can cd into a drupal doc root and type:
drush up

and, like magic, all my modules, themes, and core gets updated to the latest official release. No need to give out file write permission to apache or any other nasties like you see in other projects.

There's a bunch more commands other than "up" - the other one i use most often is:
drush dl [module name]

e.g.
drush dl views

and now i have the latest official release of the views module in my drupal sites/all/modules

Commands: cache-clear (cc) Clear a specific cache, or all drupal caches. core-cli (cli) Enter a new shell optimized for drush use. core-cron (cron) Run all cron hooks. core-rsync (rsync) Rsync the Drupal tree to/from another server using ssh. Relative paths start from the Drupal root folder if a site alias is used; otherwise they start from the current working directory. core-status (status, Provides a birds-eye view of the current Drupal installation, if any. st) drupal-directory Return path to a given module/theme directory. See --help for more details. (dd) help Print this help message. Use --filter to limit command list to one command file (e.g. --filter=pm) php-eval Evaluate arbitrary php code after bootstrapping Drupal. php-script (scr) Run php script(s). pm-disable (dis) Disable one or more modules or themes. pm-download (dl) Download core Drupal and projects like CCK, Zen, etc. pm-enable (en) Enable one or more modules or themes. pm-info Show info for one or more projects. pm-list (sm) Show a list of available modules and themes pm-refresh (rf) Refresh update status information pm-releases Release information for a project pm-uninstall Uninstall one or more modules. pm-update (up) Update your project code and apply any database updates required (update.php) pm-updatecode (upc) Update your project code search-index Index the remaining search items without wiping the index. search-reindex Force the search index to be rebuilt. search-status Show how many items remain to be indexed out of the total. site-alias (sa) Print site alias records for all known site aliases and local sites. site-install (si) Install Drupal along with modules/themes/configuration using the specified install profile. site-upgrade (sup) Run a major version upgrade for Drupal core and contrib modules. sql-cli (sqlc) Open a SQL command-line interface using Drupal's credentials. sql-conf Print database connection details using print_r(). sql-connect A string for connecting to the DB. sql-dump Exports the Drupal DB as SQL using mysqldump. sql-query (sqlq) Execute a query against the site database. sql-sync Copy source database to target database using rsync. test-clean Delete leftover tables and files from prior test runs. test-drush Run drush-specific tests test-mail Run all tests and mail the results to your team. updatedb (updb) Execute the update.php process from the command line variable-delete Delete a variable. (vdel) variable-get (vget) Get a list of some or all site variables and values. variable-set (vset) Set a variable. watchdog-delete Delete watchdog messages. (wd-del, wd-delete) watchdog-list Show available message types and severity levels. A prompt will ask for a choice to show watchdog messages. (wd-list) watchdog-show Show watchdog messages. -->

HURRAH!! software to remain NOT-PATENTABLE in New zealand's new Patents bill
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http://www.nzcs.org.nz/news/blog.php?/archives/97-.html

Despite what appears to be a big-budget lobbying effort by the pro-patent fraternity, Hon Simon Power announced today that he wouldn't be modifying the proposed Patents Bill hence software will be unpatentable once the Bill passes into law.

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Jo McLeod is now my favourite person, - and co-incidentally she gave me this beer and loaned me some DVDs.

so he had a bath