Archive for February, 2008

deep end

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

work has just bought visual studio for me to do coding. which is sort of funny, seeing as i don’t even run windows normally. it is a good thing, but i’m proceeding with caution. application programming has always sort of scared me, and i’ve always seen trying to do programming on windows/.NET as spreading myself too thin.

but it’s another skill, which in the long run will make me more indespensible/hireable. which puts my mind at ease a little considering other things on the horizon.

missing

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

i just realised there were two posts that were saved to “drafts”. wordpress is not very intuative like that.

too much power

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

chris evans, minister for immigration on the large amount of powers his portfolio has:

“I’m uncomfortable with that, not just because of concern about playing God, but also because of the lack of transparency and accountability for those decisions.”

i am consistantly impressed with our new government. and while i know a lot of it is rhetoric, there’s action behind it.

meanwhile, i was very pleased to see nelson’s preferred prime-minister rating drop to 9%