When even your mother is telling you it’s about time you updated your blog, it’s probably about time you updated your blog… Not that I’ve got anything in particular to update it with. It’s that boring part of winter where nothing in particular happens, and the days are grey and dreary, and spring seems an…
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…
Or rather, vote for my team, who have been nominated in the 2012 Digital Humanities Awards http://DHawards.org/DHawards2012/voting. We’ve been nominated in the “Best DH project for public audiences” category, for our CEISMIC digital archive. Actually, I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned CEISMIC on here, have I? That’s where I’ve been working for the last couple…
I am very very very tired. Some of that is because I went to my boss’s place for a Christmas party last night (which was really nice – it was a beautiful evening so we sat out in his garden and talked and ate and drank until the sun went down – very relaxing), and…
ecember is suddenly upon us, and the round of Christmas/end of year functions has started – I’ve already been to three, and it’s only the 9th. One was combined with a farewell – Jan, a very-like-minded colleague from another department, is leaving to set up a tea shop in a gap-filler space in the CBD. …
(except I’ve updated here so irregularly lately that you probably didn’t even know I was away…) Anyway, I spent last week down in Central Otago at a conference (which was really interesting – lots of heated debates going on in the tea breaks, which is always a sign of a successful conference), with the bonus…
really have nothing to say, but I just stumbled across this amazing site while searching for something completely different, and had to quickly post something just to have the excuse to use one of her gorgeous drop-caps. So I suppose I should think of something to fill up a paragraph or two to make it…
Yesterday was not the best birthday ever. For a start, deadlines and panics meant I had to go to work, and it was a frustrating day with all sorts of technical problems putting us even further behind (though on the plus side, one of the analysts did go out and get pastries for afternoon tea…
It’s way too early in the winter for this! I keep telling people it hardly ever snows in Christchurch, but I may have to revise that. It seems like the last few years we’ve had several big (for NZ) falls each year, instead of one small one every two or three years. This latest one…
We’re finally getting round to having the 1950s wiring in our house replaced (I’m so looking forward to having more than one power outlet per room – finally an end to the maze of extension cables and multiboards we live our life off!), so had the electrician round on Saturday to do a walkthrough of…