2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

It’s been a turbulent year for our family with respect to pets. We started 2011 with two cats and a dog and now we’re down to just a single cat. Chester Chester was only six weeks old when we bought him from a breeder in South Auckland. We drove up from our house in the central North Island to see the litter, choose him and bring him home. He came with purebred paperwork but also on the [...]

…and people still use libraries as their primary source of knowledge when conducting homework, research etc.. – yeah right! I deliberately entitled this blog post with a statement after noting the last three posts I have written were all in the form of a question. I want to touch on the subject of Google in this post. Today I’ve attended meetings where I met with a vendor telling me about how hard it is for [...]

I reckon we all feel that way late on a Sunday evening. It can either be with a sense of accomplishment after a full weekend knocking off a number of items on that “to do” or with a feeling of disbelief after the hours and days were seemingly frittered away. Yes I know that’s a rather “extreme ends of the spectrum” view to take but with less than 45 mins of the weekend to go [...]