I'm just starting this post now - i'll update it later.
But the Omni-directional Wheel, which i saw on PrimeTV - "Prototype This" - Thursday 30dec2010 was So Cool i HAD to make an entry about it.. This was the AirTrax version used for the guys' straddle-&-park machine.
There's a blog entry about it here.
That said - Happy New Year!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Last Rites (for this year anyway)
Well, that's that for this year - bombed the course, but i hope i can get back next year; all depends on StudyLink - the Graduate Exporting Scheme (aka the Student Loan Scheme) is not, it seems, adequately discouraging people from educating themselves & staying here to spread it around a bit.
Just chatting to the bloke on the computer alongside of me.. explained the Graduate Exporting Scheme to him, along with aspects of our Electoral System - i don't know anyone with half a gram of intelligence/common sense who wants to get rid of MMP: it's the only thing that stands between us & the old-style electoral dictatorship (effectively a one-party state, since the Opposition was absolutely powerless), of which the late (&, to my mind, unlamented) Robert Muldoon was a prime example: his Cabinet was for the most part frightened of him, he was afraid of no-one, & in those days, if you controlled Cabinet, you effectively ran the country; & he did, his way, & brooked no opposition, to the point where, when Marilyn Waring threatened his one-vote majority in the House by crossing the floor on the Anti-Nuclear issue, he spat the dummy & called a snap election - & lost!!
As it turned out, we got tossed out of the frying pan into the fire - we got Rogernomics, but that's another story..
This stuff really belongs in my blog 'JaneMareesFWIW' but it's in here anyway..
Toodle-oo for the year. If i get back next year, i'll start another blog on Project Management, & re-enter this one in Semester Two, when i hope to repeat this paper.
Bye 4 Now
Jane-Maree
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Just chatting to the bloke on the computer alongside of me.. explained the Graduate Exporting Scheme to him, along with aspects of our Electoral System - i don't know anyone with half a gram of intelligence/common sense who wants to get rid of MMP: it's the only thing that stands between us & the old-style electoral dictatorship (effectively a one-party state, since the Opposition was absolutely powerless), of which the late (&, to my mind, unlamented) Robert Muldoon was a prime example: his Cabinet was for the most part frightened of him, he was afraid of no-one, & in those days, if you controlled Cabinet, you effectively ran the country; & he did, his way, & brooked no opposition, to the point where, when Marilyn Waring threatened his one-vote majority in the House by crossing the floor on the Anti-Nuclear issue, he spat the dummy & called a snap election - & lost!!
As it turned out, we got tossed out of the frying pan into the fire - we got Rogernomics, but that's another story..
This stuff really belongs in my blog 'JaneMareesFWIW' but it's in here anyway..
Toodle-oo for the year. If i get back next year, i'll start another blog on Project Management, & re-enter this one in Semester Two, when i hope to repeat this paper.
Bye 4 Now
Jane-Maree
.
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