ne of the projects I’ve been running at work is building a collection of earthquake-related blog posts from various Christchurch bloggers, to help show the way that the earthquakes impacted on everyone’s lives in some way. All part of the archive’s aim of telling the story of the human side of the earthquakes through as…
ot that I’d ever complain, but we get a ridiculous amount of annual leave. Five weeks a year, plus an extra four days at Christmas (on top of the statutory holidays), and another day at Easter. So effectively six weeks of holiday a year. Which is seriously cool, but also sometimes difficult to actually use…
here aren’t a huge number of bright sides to living in a seriously damaged city, but one of them definitely is the excitement of seeing repaired buildings and brand new buildings opened. Harvestbird and I got to see three today, all within the space of a couple of hours. First was Cunningham House, the Victorian…
y birthday party baking went really well – the bread dough rose and baked up beautifully, the cake and eclairs were suitably chocolatey and decadent (even if I did slightly mess up the icing on the eclairs by getting a little bit too experimental and forgetting that adding orange zest to give it an interesting…
eing an archive for the Canterbury earthquakes means 22 February is a big day for us at work. It fell on a Saturday this year, but that just meant we had one less day to prepare, because we had to have a major collection ready for launch on the 21st instead. And of course, the…
s you can probably tell from the sudden drop-off in blog posts, life is very much back into the normal pattern of work, work, and more work, and feeling like there’s not enough hours in the day to get everything done I want to (and term hasn’t even started yet, so there’s still study to…
A few of the Christchurch Bloggers were meeting up at the Craft Love Fair at Mairehau High last night, so I went along. I didn’t intend to buy anything, but there was a lot of temptation on offer (and all right, I may have bought a few small things…). I was a bit braver about…
Sometimes I really love my job. This afternoon, the university’s HITLab (which stands for Human Interface Technology, for the uninitiated) had an open day. And as we have quite a bit to do with them (we collaborated on the CityViewAR app, for example), our boss suggested we go and have a look around the other…
Three years ago tonight, at just about this time, I was sitting in Wellington airport with a storm raging outside, wondering if my weather-delayed flight would be cancelled, and whether I should just give up and ring EdwardStreet to beg a bed for the night. When the wind finally died down enough a couple of…
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Fuzzle was here for most of the first week – it was great to see her, and we had loads of fun (plus she cooked the most amazing enchilladas for dinner one night – who knew she’d turn out such a good cook after all those barely edible…