Recently we moved to Wiltshire, a beautiful county, but one which has only recently discovered electricty (and some of the locals still arent convinced). With a bit of effort we managed to find an ISP with telephone wires at least nearby, but it has taken us a lot longer to sort out our television reception. […]
Author: dem
A needle in the eye for science
On my commute home the other day I was listening to the Radio 4 PM show, which had an article about acupuncture. It was inspired by a news item about a recent trial (also reported by BBC news online) and was framed as an interview with two experts. One expert (I couldn’t find out his […]
Hypertext Conference 2007
I’ve been on my travels for a while, culminating this week in Manchester, where I attended the ACM Hypertext Conference. Hypertext is a smaller gathering than it used to be and in recent years has been in danger of becoming a fringe event, however this year numbers were up and the conference felt very positive. […]
Childish 30’s: Zelda and the Transformers
This week I have been regressing to childhood. It started when I received a Wii for my 31st birthday, immediately turning it into my 13th birthday. As a paid up member of Generation X I grew up with gaming culture, but I haven’t had a console since my original Playstation died of dust poisoning a […]
Ubuntu – a tale of discovery and woe
In the last few weeks I’ve been getting bored with Windows XP (my OS of lack of choice) and have had a bit of a roving eye, sneaking lusty glances over the shoulders of Mac users and hanging around in dodgy Windows Vista galleries ogling Aero through the glass. Having decided that I cant really […]
ICALT Japan Photos
I’ve had a chance to organise my photos since coming back from Japan, and also had a chance to play with Picasa(which as you’d expect is very polished and nicely integrates with all Google’s other goodies). Turns out that we’ve all been busy little photo sharers: Dave’s Photos Hugh’s Photos Maurice’s Photos Alex’s album Especially […]
ICALT 2007 – Two steps behind
So the ICALT conference is over for another year. It’s an interesting event that tries to bring together researchers from both east and west, and for the most part it succeeds – the mixture of presenters is about half and half and there is a lot of opportunity to meet people from countries that in […]
ICALT 2007, Japan – a shaky start
I’m off on my travels again, this time to sunny (well, luke warm and sticky) Japan, and the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) 2007, held in Niigata on the north coast. It was an interesting start to the trip. Just after we landed in Tokyo the Niigata area was hit by a 6.7 […]