{"id":2302,"date":"2010-06-23T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2010-06-23T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T13:04:55","slug":"where-were-you-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/where-were-you-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Where were you when &#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those &#8220;where were you when&#8230;?&#8221; moments.<\/p>\n<p>Where was I when Kevin Rudd stood down as Prime Minister so that the party could vote on who would be Prime Minister in the morning?<\/p>\n<p>Making a website for work, dealing with some exciting news that I can&#8217;t share yet, thinking about the next library unconference in Western Australia&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; removing my 7 year old son&#8217;s contact lenses and telling my other son to close his computer because he was totally engaged in designing a computer game for his Year 7 computing class&#8230;discovering that playing Renee and Renato&#8217;s 1983 Hit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FKdrqyroDlI\">Save Your Love<\/a> makes children run straight to bed with no complaints &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FKdrqyroDlI&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The way I found out about the news, and tried to find more was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reading jokes about a #spill on Twitter and first thinking that there was another oil tanker that had gone over in the sea (stayed 10 mins)<\/li>\n<li>watching as the rumour solidified, people began citing sources and putting out links to reliable news sources (5 mins)<\/li>\n<li>checking abc.net.au to see what news was there (last updated 12 minutes before) (3 mins)<\/li>\n<li>switching on Radio National (ABC again) to hear if there was anything on about it (20 sec)<\/li>\n<li>checking the live radio stream from the ABC (not much) (10 sec)<\/li>\n<li>switching on ABC1 on the TV (no &#8211; Spics &#8216;n&#8217; Specs on because I&#8217;m in Western Australia &#8211; 2 hours and 10 years behind the rest of the country)<\/li>\n<li>switching to Channel 7 and finally seeing Kev&#8217;s resignation speech<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Post 25 of the <a href=\"..\/..\/2010\/06\/01\/30-posts-in-30-days\/\">30   posts in 30 days<\/a> challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those &#8220;where were you when&#8230;?&#8221; moments. 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