How I’m voting in 2011

Written on 24 Nov 2011, 3 min read.

It’s general election time again in New Zealand this year, with the added twist of an additional referendum on whether to keep MMP as our electoral system. If you’re not interested in New Zealand politics, then you should definitely skip the rest of this post. I’ve never understood why some people consider their voting choices a matter of national security, so when via Andrew McMillan, I saw a good rationale for why you should share your opinion I found my excuse to write this post.

Political Compass

Written on 28 Jun 2009, 1 min read.

It’s been a while since I’ve taken any sort of quiz like this, so when David Farrar from Kiwblog posted his results today it prompted me to give it another go. My Political Views I am a center-right moderate social libertarian Right: 1.33, Libertarian: 1.97 Political Spectrum Quiz I completed the quiz pretty quickly and felt the need to answer ‘it depends on the specifics’ to many of the questions, so take the results with a grain of salt.

Places Visited in 2007

Written on 06 Jan 2008, 1 min read.

2007 was a busy year, here is where I managed to live/stay/visit: Auckland – January and February Dublin – February, photos Hamilton – March Miri – April, photos Sarikei – April, photos Kuching – April, photos Kota Kinabalu – April, photos Singapore – April, photos Dubai – April London – April, photos Dublin – May onwards, photos Galway – June Cork – June, photos New York – July, photos Cambridge – July, photos Belfast – August, photos Luxembourg – September, photos Paris – November, photos Whistler – November, photos San Francisco – November/December, photos Bratislava – December, photos Bad Gastein – December, photos Salzburg – December, photos Vienna – December, photos 18 cities, 5 towns/villages and a total of approximately 101,216km travelled in the air!

Dublin Bound!

Written on 06 Mar 2007, 3 min read.

I’ve accepted a job with Google and we’re shifting to Dublin! Back in January, Kat and I decided that it was about time we put thoughts into action, and booked some one-way plane tickets to get ourselves to Europe. Our plan is to spend at least a couple of years (more if I have my way) exploring the other side of the world and generally broadening our horizons. We leave NZ on the 31st of March flying on Emirates to Singapore.