XVI Brazilian Congress on Archival Science (Day Three)
Monday, September 6th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »When Brazil's Association of Archivists first invited me to speak at their congress, I offered to supplement my conference presentation with a half-day workshop dealing in some detail with our digital preservation software. Ideally I wanted people to bring in ...
XVI Brazilian Congress on Archival Science (Day Two)
Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »With my day one keynote behind me and my day three workshop off in the future, day two would be my day to take in some of the congress and hopefully get outside the hotel for a quick look around. Having ...
XVI Brazilian Congress on Archival Science (Day One)
Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »A good night's sleep made a huge difference and I awoke refreshed, hungry and thirsty. Reading through the English bits of the hotel literature I figured out that breakfast could be had one floor down from me in the Garden ...
XVI Brazilian Congress on Archival Science (getting there)
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in General | 1 Comment »The taxi collected me from home at first light on Monday morning for the trip to the airport. I was pleased to see that there was no hint of fog and there was an excellent chance that my flight would ...
The Joy of Upgrade
Sunday, August 8th, 2010 Posted in Computing, General | 2 Comments »As a long time Linux user, one of the things I always look forward to is the periodic upgrade of my home desktop PC to the latest and greatest Linux distribution. New toys, new look and feel, new kernel and ...
The case for a phone as an eBook reader
Monday, June 14th, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »Ever since the idea of an eBook reader moved beyond the realm of speculative fiction and became a real device you can lay down cash to buy, I have wondered about the utility of such a thing. In theory, the idea ...