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. I think it is a reasonably accurate description of me though.

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. We plan to spend a couple of weeks in Malaysia visiting some of Kat’s extended family (who I’ve never met), followed by 3 nights in Singapore, a night in Dubai, finally ending up in London at Heathrow Airport on the 17th of April.