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Turns out NZQA thinks I'm not completely stupid :)

Cutting Edge happened and, in the words of Caleb, was awesome. I can only share a few of the photos I took publicly due to privacy laws, so have a picture of some moths that looked way cooler in person than in this photo:

At Cutting Edge, every leader had to give a testimony to the assembled masses. In typical fashion, I write some notes, read them sometimes and made more up. I feel like sharing with the internets as well.

My notes were:

I'm leaving All Saints for an undetermined amount of time. Lets put this down to burnout for now.

Also, to the one person that actively talks to me, thanks and you're awesome.

Is trying to kill me.

I'm currently winging my way back from camp. It was great fun and there was even girls there (not just the normal girl).

Such a pity that it's the last camp I get to attend as a student. I mean, someone needs to provide wifi.

If you invite me to something and spend the majority of the time talking about what you did with someone else that has no bearing on me, or talking to someone else about what you plan to do that excludes me, don't expect me to enjoy the occasion, have fun or want to be present at a repeat of the event.

Try actually including me if you invite me somewhere.

Man, Slashdot's actually got some decent commenters. Another quote from there, this time in relation to an article on the NZ Police's new MITM powers:

I always think that privacy went out the window for a large percentage of the population (though more for young people) once they realised they could exchange privacy for attention or the illusion of getting attention on sites like Facebook.

It's been so long I'd forgotten completely about this.

Once again AppleGeeks comes out with a great comic. This time about new year's resolutions and the hilarity of them.

I'm not even going to pretend to make that one.

Ripped straight from my Flickr description (currently the only photos in that set) of the photos: Four of us went walking up the hill behind Jville/Broadmeadows/Ngaio (um, the geotagging was from a cell tower so isn't that great. Look at the maps) (Mt Kaukau, I think (so what, I can't spell it and can't be bothered googling for it)). I only had my iPhone, so the photos have had some fiddling with in iPhoto to make them look better.

EDIT: I found 5 more pictures that were hiding halfway between Larry and iPhoto. They have now been added to the aforementioned (and linked) set.

I attempt to take one of Sarah, though iPhoto isn't the best at fiddling around, so the result is you can kinda make out her outline:

I might get around to attacking it in FireWorks, which should have a better result.

Contains Mac love. May not be suitable for Linus' or Bill's bed partners.

This wasn't uploaded that I could find, probably to save space or I fail at looking. Now that I've got lots more, up it comes!

A rather insightful (for once) extract from slashdot:

Or more simply, as the number of users approaches infinity, the comment quality approaches 4chan.

I guess my blog will be safe from that happening for a very long time :D

So, I got a new pet for Christmas from Esther. I'm currently looking for name suggestions.