TEDx Canberra 2010 - part 1
Sunday, October 24th, 2010 Posted in General | 2 Comments »Yesterday I attended the inaugural TEDx Canberra event at the National Library of Australia, exploring the theme of 'Thinking Way Beyond'. Seventeen live speakers and some more via video. These are my initial impressions of a very full day. For those ...
XVI Brazilian Congress on Archival Science (Day Four and home)
Friday, October 1st, 2010 Posted in General | No Comments »I decided that on the final day of the conference I would take some time out of the hotel to try to visit the cultural district in 'downtown' Santos on the other side of the island. Since I was up ...
XVI Brazilian Congress on Archival Science (Day Three)
Monday, September 6th, 2010 Posted in General | 1 Comment »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 ...