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Blog posts that don't fall into the 'writing about libraries' category. Mostly.
A Year In Read-View 2024
I managed to read very nice number of books over 2024, 69 in total. While this is up from the 50 I got through last year, it was interesting to see that the majority of my reading came from graphic novels. This is mostly due to some great titles being available via Hoopla - with the demise of Comixology (and my refusal to help the Amazon juggernaut) I had read fewer and fewer comics over the years, but borrowing them from Hoopla has clearly had an impact. In terms of novels and general non-fict
A Year In Read-View 2023
I managed to read a respectful 50 books in 2023 and for the most part enjoyed all of them, a win. More importantly I developed a great habit of using Scrivener on my phone to write for 20 minutes every weekday. Over the last three months of the year I was able to write around 4,000 words of Deus Ex...Mentis, words that probably wouldn't have been written otherwise. This is a habit I'll be carrying into 2024. Books read in 2023 August Kitko and the Mechas from Space / Alex White Goddesses, Who
Looking Back, Looking Forward
I've often started the conversation of what I've been up to this year with 'it's been a bit of a meh year', but that's not right. It can be hard to see the big picture when you're in the middle of it I guess. In February I started a new job and technically a new career (more on that later), and while COVID put the breaks on my dancing life, I used that time to refocus on myself. This post is about taking time out to breathe and reflect on how far I (we) have come this year, and look up and look
A File Format By Any Other PRONOM Signature
November third is World Digital Preservation Day and what better excuse to blog about my journey into digital preservation so far? This time last year I was being interviewed for what would become my new role as Digital Preservation Officer at an Australian State Library. I remember reading the entirety of the DPC (Digital Preservation Coalition) Handbook trying to bring myself up to speed on all the acronyms, lingo, and underpinning values of digital preservation. This was a specialised world t
It Was the Best of Times...
For me, 2021 has been a mixed bag of good and bad. Charles said it best: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” ― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 2021 didn't start out the best for me. I had put off a lot of things for far too long and t
Regular Ordinary Shaddow Meal Time
I took a nostalgic trip back through my YouTube history recently and wanted to share the weird and wonderful cooking shows I found there. Cooking on YouTube isn't new and these days I think Babish has the market cornered, but I've always enjoyed the weird and the wonderful. In the Beginning I think the first cooking show I was introduced to was Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time or #ROSMT for short. That was all the way back in 2011 or so. Since then phrases like "It's good for you!", 'MR FOX
Because You Listened To... Steampunk Edition
This is another edition of 'music I'm listening to' that you're welcome to ignore, judge me for, or find some new tunes to listen to. Last night I was called out on my people pleasing BS (thanks Royce <3) because I over thought a car trip playlist and decided to put on the least offensive music I could think of (a Samurai Champloo/Nujabes tribute). After this we started to dive into my more niche musical tastes and the subject of Steampunk came up. This is a conversation I've had before with oth
The Year That Was
I wasn't going to do a review piece this year because... *gestures around*. However upon reviewing my year I realised there were some really good things that happened and I wanted to focus on them. A little bit of good amongst the bad. I've mentioned before how bad coffee is actually better than good coffee, so I see 2020 as the bad cup of coffee that makes us appreciate all the good ones we've had before. Professional The year started off with a practicum placement at ARDC/Curtin University,
Because You Listened To...
Lately I've been listening to a lot of music. Well, I should clarify that; I've been listening to a lot of the same music. The same few albums on repeat, bringing some comfort and familiarity to these times. Since I have fairly eclectic tastes I don't get to discuss my favourite albums/songs to many people so decided why not blog about it? That's what this platform is for right? Weird opinions shouted out into the void (or is that Twitter?). Anyway, hopefully you can find some new music or a gen
Once More, With Feeling
I haven’t blogged in a while due to an overwhelming lack of motivation, despite having far more free time due to work from home privileges. In last three months I managed to write just over 1,000 words of a new story that I’m interested in exploring, but I must have stared at the page for longer than I wrote. That said, when I saw the topic for this month’s GLAM blog club was ‘play’, a post started forming in my mind and I had to sit down and write. Motivation is odd like that. Why this topic th