ll of a sudden, August is almost over, which means in a couple of days it’ll be officially Spring. And, more importantly, it means I’ve only got a couple of days to finish my second butterfly, because the deadline for challenge entries is on Sunday night. I haven’t really had any time to work on…
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I was playing around with some Javascript stuff at work today, and I actually managed to build a wee tool that will be useful for the team! Instead of generating kittens or looking up words in the library, it actually does a useful task that will save us…
olitics has invaded the CEISMIC office – we have a candidate in our midst. Well, sort of. Our team member Lucy-Jane flats with Ben Uffindell, the creator of The Civilian, a satirical website along the lines of The Onion. He recently announced he was running for parliament, founding The Civilian Party, a joke party (though…
oday was almost entirely filled with meetings. One was a very interesting meeting though – we were visited by a researcher from Tokyo, who is studying the experiences of disabled people in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, so has come to Christchurch to compare our situation with Tohoku’s. The Tohoku earthquake was only a…
t’s been a busy weekend. Yesterday afternoon I went to another film festival film, The Tale of The Princess Kaguya. A lovely animation from Studio Ghibli, based on a Japanese fairy tale. As with everything Studio Ghibli, a visually wonderful film, plus it’s always so interesting to see fairy tales from other cultures – they…
Yep, looks much better with decent lighting: It’s not complete though – there’s some stuff I want to add to it yet. Parsnips obviously thinks that what’s missing is a cat:
Apologies for the awful photo – I finished sewing all the bits together quite late tonight, so I had the choice of either a washed-out photo using a flash, or a yellowish photo using just the light in the room. Neither came out great, but I’ve colour-corrected it as best I can. I’ll try and…
art of the rules of the Butterfly Challenge was that you hve to add a link to a photo or blog post about your entry to a “linky” on TartanKiwi’s original post, so that everyone can see each other’s entries. As a result, I’ve been getting a lot of comments on my Catterfly post, all…
went to a Toastmasters speech competition last night – not as a competitor (I’m not quite experienced enough for that yet!), but I did end up having a role: they needed someone to be the timer, keeping a note of how long each speaker spoke for, and operating the warning lights. Toastmasters puts a lot…
xactly one month ago, on 19 July, I spontaneously set myself a little challenge, to see if I could manage to post something to this blog every day for a month. I (and my blog) had been suffering from the perpetual problem of either having lots going on in my life but no time to…