One hundred and forty two hours and thirty five minutes

Time is a burden.
Pictures from my university...ahhh Monash.

More of the Timor Story

I have found out more of the story and it is clearer to me now. The Serious Crimes Unit in Timor had computers stolen and records removed when it was broken into. The Truth Commission was the target for recent looters who stole motorbikes, but did not take any records from the building. Both places hold pertinent records in regards to human rights abuses in Timor and calls have been made to the Australian & NZ Governments to protect the records in the Truth Commission building.
I wonder what will be the response...

Slippers and Crime

I have been reading with interest the beginnings of an expose about history. As we all know, recent developments in East Timor have resulted in violence and fear. As a fledgling archivist and avid lurker on the australian archivist listserv, I have been recently reading posts about how a building in East Timor was the target of looters. This building contains records about serious crimes committed in East Timor over many years. Some of the cases are still pending. It was reported initially that computers were stolen, although later I read that motorbikes were taken. I am not sure if both or either is true. Awareness is now being raised reagrds possible further looting and how to best protect the records.
These files and reports and documents decribe and articulate a history of a culture. They make up part of the identity of that culture. Apparently the US forces did not consider these implications when they went into Afghanistan and cultural heritage was destroyed. The importance of this information is indefinable, yet I cannot help but think about how evidence of a culture can exist in a document and how much import we place on preserving those documents. Now the looting incident forms part of a record of East Timor.
I cannot articulate my thoughts about this very well at the moment because my head is filled with metadata schemas and record keeping implications in small business applications. It will not disappear however and I will come back to it again soon.
Slippers? Well, my sister bought me a pair six months ago and never sent them. Today, finally, I went out and bought a pair from Safeway. Its too cold in Melbourne to do with out them.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200605/s1652287.htm

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2. Be able to link documents together, so that when I open one document, my computer automatically knows that it has to open the linked documents. This means that documents can be stored in different folders, under however I wish to categorise them, but they still remain linked for whatever reason I choose.

New List: Things I want my computer to do.

1. The 'where is' function on the Sensis search bar should suggest street names according to the information in the webpage currently viewed.

20 days

How do you ever know that the love is not reciprocated? Is it by the "I'll call you." without a question mark? Could it be the, "I'm running out of credit on my phone" which means, "no more saucy messages from me cos I dont like you anymore". Maybe it is the "Lets make a date really far into the future and by that stage I will have changed my phone number and address". Are these worth hedging bets on? Who would you see as the winner. Fuck. The world sux.