pent today doing more work on that bibliography, mostly trying to establish whether authors with similar names are actually the same person. A task not at all helped by the fact that every journal has their own house style for authors’ names, with the added complication of the odd misspelling. So Bob Smith can be…
s part of some assistance we’re giving to a research project in another department, a colleague and I have spent the past few days building a bibliography of earthquake research. After scraping all the usual academic databases, we turned to Google Scholar, which often picks up papers that the other databases don’t, particularly newly-published material…
Finally got round to posting off my ornament for the Bookcrossing Ornament Exchange today. Or actually, two ornaments: Yes, there is a bit of a theme there 😉 I got the felt pohutukawa flower ages ago when Mum was up and we were browsing the Ballantyne’s Christmas displays. But then when I was in Wellington,…
Super-windy this afternoon (though not as bad as it was in Wellington), with a classic Christchurch nor’wester. So yay, nice warm day, but not so yay having to battle the wind walking home – I felt like I’d run a marathon by the time I got home. At least my difficulties weren’t as bad as…
ot home from Wellington last night, and almost immediately went back out again, to a games evening with Mrs Gwilk and mini-Gwilk – which was fun, but I’m feeling very very tired today. And today has been taken up with those boring but necessary post-holiday activities like washing clothes and buying groceries. Oh, and of…
Wellington’s famous wind has been blowing madly all night – according to the Met Service it’s currently gusting up to 98 km/h, and I reckon that’s died down a bit from what it was doing earlier. My room is on the top floor of the hostel, so as well as the whistling of the wind…
I’m glad I decided to stay up here for a few days instead of heading straight home yesterday (although I did miss out on the fun of showing off our award to all our colleagues). I’m having such a lovely relaxing time, with no particular plans, just wandering around, looking at stuff that takes my…
I’m in the Wellington library using their free wifi, and attempting to write this on my tablet, so this won’t be a long post, but I had to at least let you all know that CEISMIC won the award for Open Source in Social Service, and I gave the acceptance speech with no more than…
I’m off to Wellington in an hour or so, to the NZ Open Source Awards. I’ve got an acceptance speech memorised and well-rehearsed, just in case we’re lucky enough to win, and I’m only mildly terrified at the thought of having to actually use it. My bag is packed with books for the meetup with…
ust be Cup Day today, because it’s stupidly hot. It seems like it’s always stupidly hot on Cup Day, keeping the ambulances busy with drunken heat-stroke victims (and then, just when the weather has lulled us into thinking maybe summer is here and planning barbeques, the weather packs in again until after Christmas). At least…