Dogear Nation guest spot
I was able to join the two Michaels (Rowe and Martine) on Friday’s recording of Dogear Nation[1]… Matt Simpson was unfortunately absent, but we still had a good talk around a bunch of topics including...
View ArticleMindstorms
A break from the norm today – a small group of IBMers went to an infant school in Berkshire to play around with robots! I’ve written before about my enjoyment of working with schools and helping...
View ArticleRobots video
I previously blogged about our visit to a primary school in Maidenhead last week. The local paper took a video which can now be viewed online.
View ArticleAnother Dogear Dance
It was my pleasure to join the two Michaels on Dogear Nation on Friday. If you listen to the episode you’ll pick up on a bunch of the things I’ve been doing lately that I’ve not gotten around to...
View ArticleOn the Chrome bandwagon
Well Twitter and the interwebs sparked up with discussion of Google’s new browser, Chrome, late last night (UK time) and I thought I’d add some ill-formed thoughts of my own. Don’t expect reasoned,...
View ArticleDogear Nation #71 – partially Pipr…
By the time you read this you should be able to get hold of Dogear Nation episode 71 (in theory… I won’t be online to check when this post appears on the blog). In case you are wondering what Dogear …...
View ArticleBadged
Picked this pin badge up from the folks at Zemanta at a recent MOO drinks event in London. Photographed with my iPhone and edited with Photogene and Brushes 🙂
View ArticleSmart Planet
IBM’s Chairman and CEO, Sam Palmisano, has been speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations in New York today. He’s been discussing how the planet is getting smarter: These collective realizations...
View ArticleClarifi case for iPhone 3G
Quick review of the Clarifi case… with a couple of photos on Flickr… you can get it on Amazon
View ArticleHaptic fantastic
Yesterday I got the opportunity to play around with a haptic device, which basically provides a force feedback / touch user interface to various 3D technologies. These included navigating a virtual...
View ArticleIs Amazon neglecting the UK and Europe?
Just an idle thought. Consider: the delayed MP3 store launch in the UK the continued lack of an iPhone app for the Amazon store no Kindle launch outside of the US, and they’re on the second version...
View ArticleThe Matrix – ten years old?!
In the past couple of months, I’ve nearly abandoned my feedreader in favour of what I consider to be the “smart crowdsourced filtering” I’ve gained from the people I’m following on Twitter – I rarely...
View ArticleThings I like best in Snow Leopard
There are a heap of things I’m really liking about Snow Leopard so far… even though it turns out that my early 2007 MacBook Pro can’t take advantage of a lot of the under-the-covers enhancements 😦 The...
View ArticleCityOne takes serious gaming mainstream
One of the topics I’ve been talking about as a sideline at work for several years since the early days of eightbar, and as one of the core topics on the weekly Dogear Nation podcast, is the idea of...
View ArticleI’m an IBMer
When I see a piece like this it reminds me why I love doing what I do. Technology can take us forward and help to improve the human condition, and I’m part of an organisation that has been helping to …...
View ArticleConnectivity and Integration podcasts
As well as being WebSphere Messaging Community Lead out of IBM Hursley right now, I’m also part of what we refer to as our “Connectivity and Integration” organisation (middleware… plumbing… the hidden...
View ArticleGetting all philosophical about Software
A few weeks ago, my friend Paul Squires from Perini Networks contacted me wondering whether I’d be interested in taking part in Imperica’s “In Conversation With…” series. The idea was to pair me up...
View ArticleTeaching technology in the future – Raspberry Pi
Before you dismiss this as TL;DR – it’s a subject dear to my heart, and I believe that there’s some cool content as well as some storytelling – do give it a chance! A sad state of affairs I believe …...
View ArticleMakers. Creativity. Learning. LEGO FTW.
It began, as these things sometimes do, with a childhood passion. One of my earliest memories is of kneeling on the floor at the back of my bedroom making LEGO cars – it was in version 1.0 of my...
View ArticleNew podcast – Games at Work
I’ve been podcasting fairly regularly for the past few years, primarily with my good friends Michael Martine and Michael Rowe over in Durham, NC on a weekly show called Dogear Nation. As I’ve...
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