eading back through my blog posts today to pick out the earthquake-related ones was more affecting than I expected. Even though I spending my working days looking at photographs and reading peoples’ memories from the quakes, I’d forgotten just how scary they were. I think because I wasn’t hugely affected by them in any material…
ell, my diary is officially about to go public. I’ve signed off on the paperwork to officially donate it to the archive, and started the process today of sorting out which entries are actually earthquake-related and converting them to a format that can be archived. It’ll be a few weeks before it actually appears on…
ou know how I keep saying I’m not going to volunteer for anything else, and that I’ve got way too much going on in my life already and can’t add anything more? Yeah, I totally fail at that. I can’t help it – people ask me to help out with things and I say yes…
eriously frustrating day today. We had a major update go through on the site, and (as seems inevitable) it broke all sorts of things, none of which had shown up in the pre-release testing we’d done. So I spent most of the day trying to find out exactly how broken it was, trying to fix…
n the corner of my lounge is a small bookcase. It’s quite narrow, so I’ve got it on a slight angle, leaving just a small gap behind it (you can see where this is going already, can’t you?). A few minutes ago, I heard a scrabbling sound coming from the lounge… yep, from behind the…
k, so I totally fail at family. I was talking to Dad this morning, and he mentioned that my step-sister had seen me at the Survivor Poetry event last weekend, and had said to pass on her apologies for not saying hello, because she’d been caught up talking to someone else so I’d left before…
spent today at a conference. Well, technically it was an unconference – a THATCamp to be precise, a Digital Humanities event (THAT stands for “Technology And The Humanities”) which is a semi-planned, mostly make it up as you go along, mix of planned and impromptu sessions based around the idea that everyone has something to…
ot as big a deal as 22 February, but 4 September is still a significant date for Christchurch – the day of the 2010 earthquake that was the start of all the chaos and horror to come (GeoNet announced this morning that they’ve recorded 14859 earthquakes in Canterbury since that first one, 4558 of them…
‘ve been getting into a bad habit of eating lunch at my desk lately, so I decided today to escape campus and go out for lunch. Well, technically escape campus – I actually just went to the new cafe that’s opened on Ilam Road, right on the edge of campus. But that’s not actually *on*…
efinitely a springiness in the air today – it’s been a lovely warm day. The days are getting noticeably longer, too – our new office, which didn’t get any sun at all for most of the winter, now gets a burst of bright sunshine each afternoon as the sun peeks between the two neighbouring buildings*…