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Busy in Auckland

Maraetai beach

I’ve spent the last week or so in New Zealand. I’m doing the opening keynote speech at the International radio conference being held at AUT from the 11th of January, and I’ve come over a bit early so I could spend Christmas and New Year in the summer sun with my parents, sisters and extended family.

I’m reluctant to blog about it here too much – partly because I’ve been doing so many different things every day and I’d have to spend the rest of my time just writing posts about what I’ve been up to already, but mostly because I’ve already been uploading photos to Flickr and videos to Vimeo, updating statuses (stati?) on Twitter and Facebook, and doing a bit of a running commentary on my Dubber’s Not Here Right Now travel blog.

A lot has happened, and as you might expect, much of it has been outside.

But there’s something I haven’t been talking about in any of those other online places, and that’s actually the main project I’ve been immersing myself in during the bits and pieces of downtime I’ve had while here: the personal archive.

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