A few of my colleagues and friends, including many of the lint team, are attending the Information Online conference in Sydney at the moment. The conference opened yesterday. I wish I was there – I guess I’ll just have to enjoy it vicariously. Michelle McLean has already written the first day’s events up on her [...]
It’s always good to reflect on reasons why I like my job. Here are another couple of reasons: two short book reviews I wrote and recorded as part of our summer podcast series. Remember I was dissing pondering book groups and pondering the Patrick White online reading group? I did actually end up reading the [...]
Long weekends are good. Friday was the Australia Day public holiday. I have mixed feelings about patriotic public holidays. Actually, I have mixed feelings about patriotism (agree, Tom!). Too often patriotism seems to degenerate into mindless jingoism. And we usually only choose to celebrate, selectively, and not acknowledge the wrongs of the past. I had [...]