It was the first full day mixed with keynotes and breakout sessions, and I found myself wondering at the start how smoothly things would run. Why? I suppose it’s because last year I was so involved with the Dunedin conference so I guess it’s only natural that you do start to compare. On the whole I think it went very well. The keynotes were interesting, the vendors engaging and the breakouts (when you finally figured [...]

A short day with two keynote speakers. The first (Martin Molloy) didn’t offer me too much in the way of helpful information other than libraries are struggling in the UK and they have a picture website full of historical imagery. The latter ran alongside his talk on screen and was completely disconnected from the messages he gave. It became laughable on Twitter as fellow tweeters at conference starting playing spot the animal bingo with images [...]

It was a smooth flight up to LIANZA Conference 2011 this morning – two hops – Dunedin to Christchurch and then onto Wellington. I found myself hoping there would be no earthquakes as I waited for my second flight of the morning in Christchurch, sorry team CHCH but I think I’m not alone in thinking this now each time I land. So onto Wellington where it’s a sunny, mild morning with a temp in the [...]

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 [...]