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…
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…
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*…
‘m feeling pretty proud of myself – I was playing around with some Javascript stuff at work today, and I actually managed to build a wee tool that will be useful for the team! Instead of generating kittens or looking up words in the library, it actually does a useful task that will save us…
olitics has invaded the CEISMIC office – we have a candidate in our midst. Well, sort of. Our team member Lucy-Jane flats with Ben Uffindell, the creator of The Civilian, a satirical website along the lines of The Onion. He recently announced he was running for parliament, founding The Civilian Party, a joke party (though…
oday was almost entirely filled with meetings. One was a very interesting meeting though – we were visited by a researcher from Tokyo, who is studying the experiences of disabled people in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, so has come to Christchurch to compare our situation with Tohoku’s. The Tohoku earthquake was only a…
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…
s predicted, winter has returned with a vengance. A freezing cold day, followed by icy rain and wind tonight (luckily I managed to make it home just before it started). So Parsnips has got her wish – the fire is roaring, and she is comfortably ensconced in front of it (as I will be too…