As usual, I’ve failed at keeping up with my blog (and my promise to upload the rest of my Athens journal), and as usual the excuse is being too busy with thesis stuff. I’m kind of buried under an avalanche of data at the moment, and it’s taking much longer than I anticipated to dig…
Going home today, but in the meantime I managed to fit a lot into the last few days of my holiday. (Note to vegetarians, vegans, and those of a delicate constitution, you probably want to skip this first paragraph). First was a hunting expedition on Saturday night. During dinner I’d mentioned to Brother that it…
t’s been a very social weekend. Actually, more than just the weekend, because on Friday the CEISMIC team spent the day at the NDF Bar Camp, an “unconference” to discuss digital issues in the cultural heritage sector. Lots of exciting conversations and ideas, and seriously inspiring. Tiring though, in that way of an event where…
Lytteltonwitch and I spent the weekend in Oamaru, where they were holding their annual Steampunk Festival. We didn’t dress up ourselves, but we did go to a few of the events. I think what was most fun though was just seeing all the costumed people wandering around the streets. I wasn’t brave enough to actually…
The latest on the job front is that they’ve extended our contracts for another six weeks while management consider the business case. So yay I’ve got a job for another six weeks, but not so yay I’ve still got no idea what’s going to happen long term. I’m trying not to stress too much about…
ou want to hear my latest excuse for not having posted here for ages? This time it’s not me that’s been sick (or the DearDiary site), but my computer. I discovered a nasty malware infection on it, and as removing it looked like it was going to be a long and involved process (it was…
D’s been down again, so of course I’ve spent the last day and a half composing all sorts of interesting and amusing blog posts in my head, and now that it’s back up I can’t remember any of them. So instead, a few highlights of the past few days: On Friday I discovered that there…
hursday afternoons are geek-out time for the CEISMIC team. That’s when we have what we call our “Wizard Club” (because programming seems very much like magic when you’re learning it) – a combination of staff training and R&D time, which we use for things like building handy apps and tools to improve our workflow, sharing…
The latest bird in flight, a peregrine falcon. Which puts me way ahead of where I should be in the quilt-along, but the more I can get done now while life is relatively quiet, the less pressure I’ll have towards the end to get it finished. I’m not entirely happy with my work on this…
I decided to stick with the totally random scrappiness for the next bird, the swift, and I think it looks ok: It’s funny, as I was choosing which bundle of fabric to use for it, I found myself reasoning that I should use the bundles with the smallest number of fabrics in them for these…