Technology
Mostly for me, I thought it would be useful to list who else blogged about Limor Fried for Ada Lovelace Day this year: * Robert Mills' talk about some of the project Limor has produced. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Reilly&
Technology
Continuing the hardware theme of last years post. This years is about Limor "Ladyada" Fried and not just because of her nickname. Limor has made some great contributions to Open source hardware and has a good set of tutorials for the Ardunio, which were useful when I was
Politics
So following on from the letter to my MP, I've also written to Harriet Harman, the current leader of the house of Common to ask for a debate, some background over at BoingBoing and Richard King's excellent letter, writing your own only takes a few minutes.
Politics
So tonight I finally sent my letter asking for a debate on the Digital Economy Bill, if you need some background Matt, Richard and @JimboGunn made better points than I could make about why the bill in its current form would disastrous. Other people 's letter are starting to
ToDo
Normally I don't have a clear idea what I want to do in the next year but this year it does seem different. Finish the Web Applications Certificate I started last year I've finished the 1st year now, still waiting for the results on the course
Culture
Just a very incomplete list of cool things from a the last year in a very random order. * Elevated by Rgba & TBCI've been a big fan of demos for a long time but this was something special. All this in 4K, I even ended up starting a
Culture
@hayles post earlier about being anonymous online reminded me I was meaning to post some links I had: As normal Wikipedia has a good intro to a lot of the issues with identity online. Two from Danny O'Brien on register online, looking at the different audences public, private
Software Engineering
While working on my last Open University course we were asked to talk about different software development methods with a focus on agile. I may have gone a little over the top and the post ended up being about 1000 words,so i thought I'd put it up
diymasters
I meant to post this last week as a follow up to the list of things to learn but got a little distracted but jukesie's tweet earlier prompted me to finish it up. All very much a work in progress, all archived on delicious under the diymasters tag.
diymasters
After @jukesie posted on twitter about his a few things I want to learn list inspired by @pipstar's 100 things list, I sort of got bullied (in a nice way) into posting mine. So here it is, just a brain dump as I thought of them: * Learn enough
Technology
So I first learnt about Ada Lovelace day on del.icio.us and signed the pledge, and then spent a long time thinking about who I should write about, Ada Lovelace seems a little like the safe option. Being a hardware architect in a former life and still working on
Startups
So another brain dump about startups in various place. Back in 2001 I had an interview in Helsinki for Bitboys. In the end I did not take the job but it did give an interesting look inside the local start up scene when we went out for drinks in the