The 2008 Budget offers a whopping $591 million to Polytechnics and Universities.

All this, while constantly lowering the funding of the most highly performing educational institutes in New Zealand - Private Training Establishments. Despite these institutions being set completion quotas and post-qualification job placement requirements which are far, far beyond the free lunch that polytechnics and universities get, they get absolutely nothing out of this budget.

1. find some practice you don't like which seems popular, especially if people keep reporting its success, but doesn't make you money

The Pari library was started in 1987 - the same year as Perl - apparently by Professor Henri Cohen of the University of Bordeaux in France. Being able to do arithmetic with arbitrary precision and at high speed, it is an essential part of stacks like Crypt::OpenPGP. I have imported the oldest tarballs for pari I could find into git here.

It seems that a lot of sites have cropped up that offer free Git hosting;

• First there was repo by Petr Baudis of cogito fame. A service running from Prague, based on a few simple CGIs, themselves published.
• Then I think gitorious came along, and also GitHub - both Ruby implementations and some adding services

Why, the Geekonomics author's blog! Check out this retarded statement,

For another software developer to satisfy the customer’s need, its means that this very same replacement developer is not available to satisfy market demand for better, more fulfilling products somewhere else. This robs other more promising software projects of labor as well as robs the market of better products.

Check out the 'inspirational' rant from Pita Sharples.

Background: ticket scalping was recently declared legally unavoidable to prohibit without violating core freedom of ownership over the ticket.

My major TODO items at the moment:

1. ALMOST DONE - Perl history rewriting - 31,000 more changes to do! Tidy up and refactor the Perforce importer, and then use it to convert and publish a blead-synced version of Perl.
2. DONE - Get repo up and going on UTSL and mirroring
3. DONE - Get darcs-git up and running and see if it really canes Stacked Git - VERDICT: feature was added to stable release apparently by accident and is not expected to work.
   

John Key writes,

"But New Zealanders should know that from tomorrow, millions of dollars - of their money - will be funnelled through Government departments to advertise Labour policy in election year. Meanwhile, so-called third parties can only spend $120,000."

only $120,000?! Well, crap. Looks like I'll have to clamp back my donation. Seriously, WTF?. That's a fairly sizable proportion of their total allowed budget.

(with apologies to mnftiu)

Ok, so I've been working on this program to convert the Perl history from Perforce, with the view to tack it on top of the previous conversion I worked on.