There I was, on the plane with all sorts of people heading to Wellington, New Zealand for my first ever international conference AND speaking gig. To say I was excited was an understatement!

Sitting next to me on the plane were some guys also heading to a conference in Wellington about Geo-something or other…but wonderfully, due to their knowledge they were able to point Mt Ruapehu to me from the plane…The North Island of New Zealand’s highest point and a most active volcano!

I was gob smacked as I flew into Wellington. I’ve never been to NZ before, so wasn’t prepared for how pretty it was. I flew through customs etc and got myself as quickly as possible to the hotel so I could spend the last couple of daylight hours walking around and getting a feel for the place.

I didn’t know that Wellington was about the same size as Canberra. What struck me most was how like Melbourne it seems in style. Lot’s of hipsters and lot’s of people in black!

After my presentation on preserving digital information at the recent Local Government Web Network conference, Reem told me that she received lots of enquiries about PDF/A, which I mentioned in my talk; specifically, What is it?, How to use it? and Where to get it? PDF/A is the ‘archival’ format for PDF. PDF/A has fewer "bells and whistles" than traditional PDF which minimises future migration requirements.