Helen Morgan - Snapperup of unconsidered trifles

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From memory: Sie verlassen jetzt West-Berlin

Friday, November 13th, 2009

My photographs of the Berlin Wall, taken in 1989, are amongst the most regularly viewed in my Flickr photostream. Understandable in the lead up to the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall on 9 November this year.
Some of them are mine and a few are a fellow traveller’s, collected by me at the [...]

The Road to Kinglake

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

We went to the St Andrews’ Community Market for our long weekend excursion last Saturday, early in the morning, driving through the rolling hills of Eltham, Research (I should live in a place called Research) and Kangaroo Ground.
I remember now the thrill I felt on seeing place names on the green road signs familiar to [...]

Charts past

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

I have a good visual memory, which has recently been triggered by looking over my colleague’s shoulder as he does computer geewhizzery using Gvim (‘an extended version of the Unix VI text editor with syntax highlighting’). It is the differently coloured text that swims against the black background that’s done it.
I learnt to read at [...]

Personal digital recordkeeping: note to self

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Archivist, researcher and natural born recordkeeper that I am, it is perhaps surprising that I am a bit slack when it comes to personal digital recordkeeping.
I say a bit, because in some areas I’m quite good. I have a twelve year email archive that is still accessible and in regular use, and I migrated my [...]