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…
ctually, it’s suprisingly unpainful – except of course at those moments when I bump it against something, which happens every time I forget that I’ve got a giant sausage of bandage on my finger, making it twice the size it normally is and therefore needs a lot more clearance room than normal… I am discovering,…
I just got back from spending two hours at the emergency clinic, having managed to cut a lovely big slice into my finger. The culprit was my lovely rotary fabric cutter, which I was enthusiastically wielding while starting a new sewing project, when a moment’s inattention meant that my little finger on the hand that…
ou might not believe it, but I actually released two books today! The first was Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married by Marian Keyes, which I released in a cafe where I stopped off for breakfast on my way to Riccarton this morning (the Riccarton expedition was to replace my computer’s mouse, which has been playing…
We had the boss’s 15 year old son in the office today for work experience. He actually did some really good work for us (after a bit of a false start when the computer he was using (which runs Linux – all the Windows machines in the office need you to log in with a…