I'm showing my Poo-hole and challenge all other Christchurch residents to do the same ;-)
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Power camee on about an hour ago and we have been watching TV to see how bad it is in the city. Out here there has been very little damage. We lost a mirror and a plant pot - and the mirror falls off the wall more othen than not anyway. This time it broke. And the morning paper was late :-)
Little bit of damage in the park. Thats about it.
Seems to be quite a bit of damage in the central city and in some suburbs - generaly older areas, but I think the media is playing it up a bit. Bad but not what I would call severe.
They're on again - they're off again. Lets hope this is settled now.
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.
The educational community has discovered open source tools in a big way. Analysts predict that schools will spend up to $489.9 million on support and services for open source software by 2012, and that only includes charges related to operating systems and learning management systems. Teachers, professors and home schoolers are using open source applications as part of their educational curriculum for a wide variety of subjects.
Nice video for newbies covering Ubuntu, showing the girlies can use computers.
The comments are amusing too - some claim Nixie Pixie's video is too sexy, but I did not see a single CPU or open case. But I'd better take another look ...
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