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I'm giving a talk on 27 Feb about ISAD(G), it's relationship with archival software & impact on my cataloguing work, as part of the SAA' Archival Vistas Briefings Seminars. Come watch me geek out for an hour! 11am EST/4pm GMT. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... It will be on YouTube after.

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Finished reading my first novel of 2025 although admittedly I started it in 2023.

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Didn't manage to get a newsletter out last month due to freelance work, but I'm back this month with Donald Rodney, a Chris Marker CD-ROM, and thinking about self-storage units and closets. open.substack.com/pub/relatedm...

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Today I will mostly be trying to cycle to work in a linen dress shaped like a sack and inappropriate sandals.

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I am never again worrying about having too many exclamation points in my emails after reading a lot of German business correspondence from the 1920s.

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During the 19 months when we didn't have any cats in the house I somehow forgot how much cats hate it when you move round the furniture.

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CFP: Special Collection of the Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD) that focuses on GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) collections as data. openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/collections/...

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Been working with a small charity archive since December and we just got our first delivery of archive boxes and I'm so happy I could cry! I also can no longer move in the storage unit, for all the boxes.

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Issue nine of my monthly-ish newsletter is out, featuring a comparison between fashion conservation and digital preservation, two very different exhibitions, and absolutely banging experimental trance track. Read online at relatedmaterials.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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Oh great, the person in Texas who regularly tries to sign up for yoga classes with my email address has now registered for online dating with my email address.

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I can tell it's now officially summer because academics have started sending me vague nebulous emails about "spending some time with the archive" but neither a list of reference numbers they want to see or the slightest suggestion they have looked at the catalogue that I have lovingly prepared.

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Been on an unintentional social media break because the bsky app logged me out and I forgot my password.

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Day 12 of a spreadsheet-based project and I've finally figured out how to construct an array formula that would have saved me several hours and a lot of RSI if I'd figured it out 11 days ago.

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Feeling almost sorry for the tech guy at our archival software hosting company who just tried to explain to me how to structure my metadata import, not realising I used to run the UK user group for this software. Almost.

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Last day I'm the office before my holiday that's been postponed since 2021! I hope no one is expecting any actual sensible answers from me today.

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Another day, another organisation advertising for a 'freelance' archivist who don't seem to have read the HMRC guidance on the difference between freelance and employed.

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WIRED magazine, March 2002: The A.I. revolution has arrived. Meet the new face of A.I.

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2.5 hours into an 8 hour day at the unheated archive store and I've finished my flask of coffee 🫥

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Went out with a friend for green tea and donburi and even though I've not had a drop of alcohol, there's something about gossiping over rice that makes me feel like I'm drunk.

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Shout out to the person in Greece who looked at my archive catalogue on Christmas Day.

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Back to the day job today (been working freelance throughout the holidays) and my train has three more coaches than it did last year so maybe there is a god.

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2023: started a new job, started freelancing with one of my favourite architecture studios, started a newsletter, started tutoring PhD students, saw my favourite band live for the first time, continued learning Japanese, increased my kettlebell weight to 14kg. 🎊

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24 hours into being at my in-laws and I'm wondering why I didn't pack my Switch or my knitting (but remembering why I didn't bother bringing a book ...)

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Unexpected cycle ride this morning after I chose a pick-up shop a little too hastily on the DPD app and accidentally diverted my parcel to the post office in the next village.

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20 years from now the youngsters will have a hipster revival of "hand-crafted writing" and AI-free "just knowing things" and we writers/academics will be the Stewart Brands of the post-AI generation and it will be...ridiculous.

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Thought I'd left one of my hand-knitted mitts at the archive yesterday but I can't find it which means it fell out of my bag on the way home, and I have to pray to the TFL Lost Property gods. 😭

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