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New Zealand Schools vs Microsoft - Can’t Afford MS Office
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Well it seems that our education system has a major tiff with being able to afford using Microsoft Office on all of the 25,000 computers in their school system. The story from the NZ Herald seems to indicate that the school district was facing some $2.7 million in additional licensing fees, which it could not afford. The school computers are all Apple systems using Microsoft Office.
The school district estimated that some 30% of the systems were ...
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6.3.2007
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New Zealand Navy May Struggle With New Ships
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While the Royal New Zealand Navy prepares to formally celebrate the arrival, six months late, of the first of seven Project Protector warships, there are concerns about the Navy’s ability to operate the new ships.
The multirole vessel Canterbury will be handed over by prime contractor Tenix on May 31 in Melbourne, commissioned June 12, arrive at its home port of Lyttleton on June 28, and berth at Auckland’s Devonport naval base, where it will be ...
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5.29.2007
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New Zealand is a Christian nation - with no established religion
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Most readers of this blog will know I'm a committed secularist, and reject the connection of Church and state as an infringement on personal liberty. I do get rather annoyed when people claim this means secularists are anti-religion or seek neutrality. Some religions are better than others; and I define religions that impinge on others' right to freedom of (and from) religion as being inferior to all others. With that in mind...Brian Tamaki and h ...
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5.29.2007
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A political and virtual head of state
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Governors-General never get involved in political debates, they're non-political and neutral folk. Yeah right! Thankfully, Gavin Mclean pulled this myth apart in his excellent book The Governors - he came to show that almost every New Zealand Governor-General had, at some point got involved in a political issue and caused controversy at some stage during their tenure.Sir Arthur Poritt (1967 - 1972)Poritt was a pretty uncontroversial choice as New ...
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5.27.2007
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