So I've been working at Minstry of Health doing Data-entry all week. Its all part of a six month contract and I hope once its up I'll have a much better chance of getting something better. Its a start and better than the dole so its all good. Also, if I can act funny when I tell people I do 'data entry' they'll assume I have a much cooler job that ( Read more... )

there is a lot of talk about the Police/SIS being given much broader powers by their political masters. So far I've not been fussed about the changes. Paritally because I had assumed this was already teh case but This could also be because I have an idea of how much resources it takes to collect, colate and understand raw intelligence which, when ( Read more... )

So... I've been doing a bunch of research at NCW {National Council of Women} regarding women being able to serve on juries in the same capacity as men. Whilst women have been able to vote for over a hundred year yet jury service has only been complusory and without gender specifc exception since 76. {42 allowed voluntary service, 62 complusory ( Read more... )

Last week I started volunteering at the National Council of Women {NCW or Ninja Clandestine warriors as Ed suggested}. I have been reseaching women serving on juries and how it went from being illegal to voluntary to compulsory over the course of about 20 years. Its been pretty interesting so far, especially reading all the old minutes, magazines ( Read more... )

NZ troops have been fired on in Afghanistan. No one has been killed, on either side, but I Imagine some people are having to change in pants, in theatre and in wellington ( Read more... )

So Jimmy Carr, quick witted and shape mouthed presenter of distraction, is in trouble but in the UK for making an offensive joke about wounded war veterans ( Read more... )

Its been less than 24hrs but already NZ Herald is inundated with stupid opinions in the 'Your Views' section. Now I realise that the NZ Herald is hardly a shinning light of intelligentsia but too many of those comments deomonstrate such a complete lack of understanding of the political system and ability to effectively interpret reality ( Read more... )

The other day in the Newspaper there were stories about the UN fact finding mission reporting back on the Gazan offensive earlier this year. The report came back saying both sides had committed war crimes and that is was expected that both sides complete internal investigations or face further external examination. I thought 'Hardly surprising, ( Read more... )

Todday I made an oral presentation of my submission to the defence review. I had spent all this day and yesterday reading up on NZ Defence & Foreign policy including old assignments. Some of my old essays aren't as bad as I remembered them to be and in some cases I sounded smarted than I thought I was. Inspite of all this I was still pretty nervous ( Read more... )

The other day I was in farmers I and Saw a new style of Nerf gun, Probaly just out this season. I think it is the best one out yet {Although I haven't tested its acutal performance yet, so I'll reserve final judgement} because it nicely fills the gap between Rifles {like the N-Strike} and automatics {ie the Vulcan}. I has a fowardd vert grip which ( Read more... )