Can't Preserve If You Don't Record It

Friends of Battye Library just launched a new website today, with a $3,000,000 grant from LotteriesWest (so the Premier gets to hand over the cheque?) which will go a long way towards the preservation of over a century's worth of decaying newspapers, microfilm, archival film and photographs.

All very worthwhile.

The Mad Hungarian, who filmed today's launch for a segment for SBS' NoiseTV, is currently beside himself having discovered that after beating 7 and 9's cameras to score the first interview with the Premier, and getting twice as much out of the Hon. Dr Gallop as anybody else did, that he somehow failed to actually record the interview at all.

That's why I'd rather work with computers than cameras any day: Control+Z.