Holiday and family in New Zealand, part I:

Auckland - Palmerston North

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Special thanks to chocolatepicklechocolatepickle for pointing me to the livejournal map. This is very fun. My LJ friends are scattered all over the world (with obvious concentrations in Melbourne and Perth, but that's like having concentrations in London and Moscow)...

I'm trying to get all my Livejournal friends' locations plotted on a map - please add your location starting with this form. Username: (Then get your friends to!)

Not feeling depressed enough yet? Well, welcome to the modern equivalent of bookburning.

Australia really doesn't like East Timor, do they?

Go the Inuit!

Oh, and as of ten minutes ago I'm gainfully employed again. The good people at connect.ie need to upgrade a disabilities website so it conforms to w3c accessibility. They're throwing several hundred Euro to me to do a weeks' work and there's plenty of follow-on as well. Just enough to pay for my holiday here...

And here's a little quiz that I composed for myself in a discussion with the fine Erudito.

What's the most
(1) Prosperous nation in the world?
(2) The most free?
(3) The most democratic?
(4) The most dynamic?

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