Archive for September 2007
Kim and I are planning to move to Auckland for the summer. While I’ve visited Auckland many times for work and visiting friends I’ve never actually live there, so it will be interesting to see how that goes. Any leads for the following would be appreciated:
A good place to stay for 2-4 months with possible extension. We’ve been looking at corporatey style apartments but they’re a bit expensive (typically $600-700/week) so I’d like to find a better option. House sitting would be particularly cool but we’re flexible and willing to consider lots of things.
A job for me. Jobs I do include technical writing, IT management (that’s pretty general, I know), website implementation, and Windows system support. You can get my resume here.
A job for Kim. She’s into website development (mainly PHP) and has lots of experience with implementing and migrating to content management systems.
Yay, I just made my first submission on a Bill before the house. Down with the Electoral Finance Bill! You’ve got until the end of the day.
I wish to state my opposition to the Electoral Finance Bill.
I accept that elections have special considerations when it comes to freedom of speech and that there are good reasons for imposing additional controls to ensure the fairness and transparency of the democratic process. However, the opposed bill goes far beyond this and unreasonably limits the legitimate political activities that political parties, issue groups and individuals are entitled to engage in.
The election period is one of the times when New Zealanders pay more attention to national politics and therefore it is important that all views can be put forward and robustly debated. The bill imposes far too many limits on political speech and will damage the quality of our national political debate. It is also an abhorrent affront to the peoples right to free speech.
The bill is majorly flawed and cannot be saved by just a minor patchup; it should be scrapped.