You know, I can't help but wonder why it seems that the only Maori words on the NZ Police website that I can see are the Maori name of the NZ Police- Nga Pirihimana o Aotearoa. On the left sidebar is a list of language options- several of which I don't...
And finally we have some common sense commentary on the Police (side-track: That police website seems to be available in a wide variety of languages, but I can't see a link for a version in Te Reo. Or any Pacific Island language, for that matter) and...
Well, first of all, congratulations to South Africa. It's good to see the World Cup back on the right side of the equator. But more importantly: Today is my eighth chinaversary. Eight years ago today I arrived in China for the first time. In Changsha,...
It's not the first time I've ranted about this particular phenomenon in modern Chinese society, so I'll tone it done and keep everything as reasonable and rant-free as possible. Tell me: Am I the only one who sees anything wrong in this situation? I walk...
Onions just dropped into scorching hot oil- now that is a delicious smell. And in other good news, there are plans for the Southern Hemisphere's largest windfarm along a sparsely populated stretch of Waikato coastline. Now that is a step in the right...
The Naked Gun went down a treat in my English corner class this afternoon. I'm really going to have to do something about those writing classes, though. I'm just as bored as the students, and the book isn't helping. And that English corner thing isn't...
What was I going to write about? I had thought of something... I don't want to whinge about cheating students, I've done enough of that, but having just finished marking the first round of assignments, that's what's foremost in my mind. There was something...
Plagiarism, as I told Shushu the other day, is a stupid way to tell your teacher you think he's stupid. What irritates me most is that the best class should turn up the largest number of cheats. Or maybe that means my websearching skills aren't as good...
I forgot to mention: They keyboard came back to life. I guess something connected to the keyboard- the keyboard itself? some driver somewhere?- got a bit worn out with all that fixing I did yesterday, in some kind of collateral damage kind of way, and...
I knew that the fan that we had going pretty much constantly all summer had gotten really dirty. It was kinda hard to miss that little fact. The fan blades seems to be very good at catching dirt and soot and dust and other miscellaneous particulates out...
