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From a front page article in the Press on Thursday: Despite an estimated $9b of economic stimulus being pumped into the economy from tax cuts and new capital spending, the country’s gross debt is predicted to soar to levels not seen since the Muldoon years of the early 1980s By new capital spending I assume… Read More »

Back in January, I wrote a short post about Micro-finance, the Grameen Bank, and Kiva, an organisation that also finance micro-loans via micro-investments. Unfortunately, at the time, there was a freeze on investments, so I couldn’t make a small investment on behalf of my sister, as I had planned. Now, though, things are back in… Read More »

I finally got around to writing this letter to NZ prime minister John Key as part of Morgue’s “Don’t be a Rodney” campaign. It’s probably a bit long, but, well, I had to get that all off my chest, and the key point is summarized at the end. So far, I’ve only emailed it in,… Read More »

It’s been a month and a half since I last posted here – you might wonder where I went. If you’ve been following my other blog at http://aigantighe.livejournal.com, you’ll know it’s because I’ve been moving from New Zealand to the US in order to take begin studying towards a PhD at the University of Washington.… Read More »

I’ve begun to think that I want two different sorts of bookmarking service: For reference links – pages I refer to frequently and that I want to be able to find quickly when I need them, from any computer. Ideally, these should be listed within a drop down menu in my browser. I use Google… Read More »

Thought I might give a quick little plug for Ainevoltas 2, a quick little platform RPG that I got an hour of enjoyment out of Tuesday.. Basically, you’re a guy with a sword, and there’s a castle full of monsters. Slay them, gain experience points, go up levels, and gain stats. Collect gems and other… Read More »