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reading NZ Institute's latest report "The end of the golden weather" - no ack. of peak oil or climate change yet: http://tinyurl.com/5s8tkl |
seeing Dec economic review is out - inflation at 5.1%, ouch: http://tinyurl.com/68g9mz |
noting in last parliament Māori Party voted against 90-day probation: http://tinyurl.com/63zykv |
if the new government is going to ram through legislation under urgency - without public submissions - wondering what point of @twfynz is? |
@ClaireDel my forecast: Australia dries up, Aussie migration/invasion of NZ; trade seizes up; NZ isolated but self-sufficient in essentials |
wondering if there are minimum local content requirements for state-owned media? that'll be considered a "trade barrier" in the US FTA talks |
showing you portraits of the new NZ MPs that start work on Monday: http://theyworkforyou.co.nz... |
reading Canada's governor general has agreed to PM's request to suspend their parliament: http://www.guardian.co.uk/w... |
@gnat thanks for the heads up about the US FTA, what specific copyright and patent issues should we be raising with MFAT? http://is.gd/a9ub |
posting pretty pie-chart of overseas party votes: http://tinyurl.com/5pteth |
the Overseas Party Vote split: National 51.0%, Labour 27.1%, Green 13.8%, ACT 3.0%, Māori Party 1.3%, United Future 0.8%, Progressive 0.4% |
scraping overseas votes (scraper is 16 lines of ruby) |
figuring out the lines of ruby required to pull out the Overseas Votes from the electorate results pages |
looks like to get overseas party vote percentages, will have to sum each electorate's Overseas Special Votes line: http://tinyurl.com/6xllz5 |
watching encroaching police state "we do this all the time, every single day we pull people over": http://tinyurl.com/6crgcu |
having met a marketing person in pub tonight - who is interested in getting involved in twfynz - hoping we have an interesting 3 years ahead |
seeing I've scraped about NZ$1.3 billion worth of awarded contracts from GETS site - will show by ministry and by awarded supplier soonish |
discovering at least the Contract Value Range on the GETS contract notices is standardized |
correcting purchaser organisation names from nz govt awarded contract notices - it seems they have a hard-time spelling Ministry correctly |
@ClaireDel grabbing Post-Award Contract Notices - lots of fun to be had with them! |
