Posts from September 2019

• Mapping table: Undertale soundtrack to in-game filename

  24 September 2019 | gaming music | Comment

  The table below shows the mapping between Undertale OST track names and in-game music filenames. Where an OST track corresponds with multiple in-game music filenames, brace expansion syntax is used to represent the filenames.

  All OST tracks are present in the game files, except 72… »

• Model Rules of Interpretation for legal documents

  21 September 2019 (updated 15 January 2020) | law legalmd | Comment

  While the interpretation of legislation is often governed by an Interpretation Act, such as the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 (Cth), there is no corresponding simple set of principles at common law. Accordingly, many contracts and other legal documents contain lengthy sets of boilerplate provisions, setting… »

• A survey of eBook lending at Victorian public libraries

  19 September 2019 (updated 19 September 2019) | victoria ebook | Comment

  Unlike the US, where OverDrive has a near-monopoly on eBook lending, eBook lending among Australian public libraries is fragmented among a number of platforms. While competition is most certainly good, Australian libraries' eBook offerings are often more limited than their American counterparts. As a consequence,… »

• Rules of order rant: ‘That the words proposed to be omitted stand part of the question’

  14 September 2019 (updated 14 September 2019) | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

  In traditional Australian and UK meeting procedure, a curious procedure takes place when an amendment is proposed to omit words from a motion, including to omit words and substitute other words. Traditionally, the question proposed from the Chair, in either case, is:

  That the words

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• Some statistics on Pickles government vehicle auctions

  13 September 2019 (updated 14 September 2019) | misc | Comment

  I collected information on sales at three Pickles ‘Victorian Government & Council Vehicles’ auctions on 13, 20 and 27 August 2019. I collected data on ‘personal vehicles’, which I defined as vehicles with a sedan, wagon, hatchback or liftback body type. I compared winning bids… »

• Rules of order rant: Prior amendments

  12 September 2019 | parliamentary procedure meeting procedure | Comment

  In Australian and UK meeting procedure, there is a rule relating to the order in which amendments may be moved, known as the ‘prior amendment’ rule. Citrine's The ABC of Chairmanship describes this as follows:

  when an amendment has been moved to alter the latter

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