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The cat in the bed

My cat, Eve, is just gorgeous. She loves to sleep on the end of the bed at night, and sometimes she likes to sleep with us IN the bed. I swear, sometimes she thinks she's human. So human, in fact, … Read more …

My World of Warcraft character

I play World of Warcraft a reasonable amount. When I have time to really. This is my character. His name is Krayc, he's currently 17th level, and he's a Hunter. That's his pet, Kittey. She's a 17th level Nightsaber, or … Read more …

Goodbye New Orleans… and George Bush?

I'm shocked, like most people, to see what's happened to New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. What's been shocking has been the extent of the damage, the flooding, the looting, and the recriminations that have bounced around the internet. What's … Read more …

Who am I kidding?

It's been almost a week now since I got excited about starting my own political party. It was a couple of days afterwards that I came crashing back to earth, and I've been reflecting on it since then. Who, really, … Read more …

The ‘horse whip’ case

There's been an interesting case I've discovered here in NZ that involved a boy being disciplined by his mother with a riding crop (which was turned into a horse whip by media). As a result of the discipline, the child's … Read more …

Some photos

Yep, it's time for some more photos from the Land of Alan. That one is a sunrise from the lounge room window. I get up earlier than normal these days, after having started a new shift at work from 7:30am … Read more …

Freedom for you

I've started. I've created my new website that I've titled, to the right there, 'My Ideal Politics'. The website itself is called "Freedom For You". Check it out, maybe you'll like it enough to be inspired to join the subscription … Read more …

Politics

This past week has been a little bit interesting. I went out to yum cha on Sunday with Vicki and her partner Alan. Afterwards we went to… Starbucks…. for a coffee and more chatting. During the course of the chatting, … Read more …

No more Comments spam!

Only a few days after I angrily deleted a whole bunch of spam comments in this blog, blogspot.com brings out word verification in Comments. …people leaving comments on your blog will be required to complete a word verification step, similar … Read more …

The political compass

If you go here, you'll be able to find out where you sit on the political compass. For me, I sit here: I think it's cool that I'm in a similar area of the compass as Ghandi…