2008

Jul

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London Centre for Nanotechnology

Marxism is not here

Syncing the audio with the slides from today’s #currentcost talk at #opentech on SlideShare:...

On the train home. Editing the audio from our talk today.

The audience at OpenTech is very geeky. Most presentations (with very few exceptions) have been very...

Interviewed with Nick by O’Reilly for a video blog. Gosh. People know about...

Dear OpenTech: why is the moderator spot-lit while the speakers are not?

Preparing for the 7:38 am train to Waterloo. It’s too early for my brain to be awake yet.

Giving a short presentation about #currentcost at Open Tech 2008 with @knolleary tomorrow. Slides...

iPlayer seems to have switched from the old version to the new beta. This has broken Wii support,...

Watchification fixed. That was easy.

Dinner - Garlic Bread

Dinner - ‘Separation of Concerns’: I made a...

Dinner - New Potatoes

Dinner - Delicious Ham

Dinner - ‘Separation of Concerns’: I made a...

Apple, Rhubarb and Nectarine Crumble: The nectarine was...

Made dessert (not desert after all!) with Ray’s help. Multi Crumble.

Next up: desert. I call this one ‘Crumble’.

Making dinner. I have even named it: Separation Of Concerns. Photos later.

Following #2gether08 at http://mogulus.com/2gether08 and http://mogulus.com/2gether08b - still...

Feeling very loved. I have great friends.

Eek. I owe £776.54 tax on some stock options I exercised recently. Not fun. Smith Barney were...

Home. Exhausted.

I don’t think I can read The Time Traveller’s Wife in public any more. It makes me too...

Les Watson on moving from Work Ethic to Play Ethic. Happiness and Flow. The balance between skill...

Watching Les Watson at #UCISA-usc08. He’s referenced Daniel Pink’s Conceptual Age and...

Drinks, dinner and ‘race night’. I assume this involves racing of some sort rather than...

Checked into student halls at Reading. Lacking clothes hangers (for jacket), but otherwise quite the...

The conference bags may be biodegradable jute, but they fasten with velcro. Significant noise...

At #UCISA-usc08. Was introduced by @DIHarrison (nice to finally meet him) @andypowe11 is up next,...

Reading on the train to Reading. Re-reading The Time Traveller’s Wife, which I love. I read...

Preparing for a couple of days in Reading. Speaking later today at the UCISA TLIG (Teaching Learning...

Jun

Going home a bit early today. Conference in Reading starts tomorrow, so out of the office until...

Finally watching ‘Atonement’ on DVD. Loved the book. Film is OK. Lovely Lovely Keira...

Finally trying iPlayer on the Nintendo Wii (since our living room’s Mac Mini seems to have...

Waking at midday. / That’s a strange experience. / Now it’s breakfast time.

Wow, the Charlton Heston movie ‘Omega Man’ is painfully painfully bad. Not just the...

It turns out that if you’re feeling a little bit tired, a little bit stressed and a little bit...

Downloading the Omega Man movie. Legally of course, using XBox Live. Thinking Rachel’s (film...

Not to self: next time you think about making a toasted peanut butter, jam and banana sandwich,...

Another toasted sandwich for lunch today: peanut butter, jam and banana. Oh yes.

Updating my Interesting 2008 list to include the Guardian video series, which you can find at...

Just finished the demo of Lego Indiana Jones on the XBox 360. It’s great. Now, coke. chocolate...

Top Gear just got a lot better (s11e01). Brilliant homebrew police cars. The new iPlayer beta is a...

Mix 3 eggs + splash of milk. Dip 4 slices of white bread. Grate cheese between the slices, then cook...

The perfect storm: both Justin Lee Collins AND Alan Carr appear on this week’s Top Gear....

Browsing http://failblog.org/. It’s epic.

On advice from @mildlydiverting I’m trying a graphics tablet as an alternative to the MacBook...

Six To Start fed and watered. Perhaps too literally. Dan and Kass both got wet in ‘the...

Also preparing for @danhon’s talk at 11:30. Thinking an ‘I’m with Hiro’ joke...

Sitting in Hursley audiotorium, waiting for @bjfletcher to present on “Ben and IBM”,...

There is smoke on the horizon and the smoke is bright, shining white.

Feeling a tiny bit uncomfortable having eaten a bit too much tonight. Full, happy and sleepy.

I made it to the end of the 3.5 hour call. Now I feel like part of my brain has fallen out. Maybe...

Seen on a ClearChannel poster: It seems this allows...

Make Tea Not War: Seen on a lovely houseboat.

Ray on the river

Canary Wharf, from across the Thames: Docklands is nicer...

Arrived home in time to join a 3.5 hour conference call.

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet: Sam Jones and James Montgomery

FT Blogger Meet: From left to right: Sam Jones (Alphaville),...

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet: Me taking a photo of Neville shooting a...

FT Blogger Meet: Alphaville

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet: Video corner

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet: James Montgomery – Editor, FT.com

FT Blogger Meet: How to keep an eye on the news..

FT Blogger Meet: Steve Ager from the FT.com video team...

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet

FT Blogger Meet: Papers and paper recycling bins.

FT Blogger Meet: Paper, paper, everywhere.

FT Blogger Meet

Spam of the day: “my father was a very rich cocoa merchant … before he was poisoned to...

Temporarily Disabled: The Twitter replies page, this...

Over the moon about getting link love from both Metafilter and Tom Watson today. Long day. Time to...

Mr Loud is finally off the phone (favourite word: ‘listen’). Now has laptop open. I...

The guy having a LOUD phone conversation next to me on the train seems to be in Investor Relations....

Discussing how to measure people’s reaction to a big hole in the ground, safely and ethically....

Being taught to play the accordian.

Visiting friends in Southwark. Lovely flat. Lovely friends.

Out of the office again today. See you tomorrow, Hursley people.

Slideshow of the day on http://SlideShare.net - w00t!

That’s Charlie Brooker! JUST managed to avoid staring and pointing.

Going to be offline and out of the office for a lot of today.

Uploading slides + audio from my 3 minute Interesting 2008 slot yesterday. ‘LEGO is full of...

Lloyd Davis: Lloyd played two songs on his ukulele and...

Simon and Curtis James: Simon and Curtis played music to...

Anna Pickard: Anna talked about funny words

Anna Pickard: Anna talked about funny words

Younghee Jung: Younghee talked about toilets

Alice’s shoes

James Bridle: James talked about booze

Kim Plowright: Kim talked about vacuum cleaners

Dave Funkypancake: Dave did a great job of emceeing a...

Lea Becker: Lea talked about scribbles

Lea Becker: Lea talked about scribbles

Arthur: Arthur made something out of the Lego I bought with...

Leisa Riechelt: Leisa talked about the brain

Leisa Riechelt: Leisa talked about the brain

Russell Davies: “Go back to your constituencies and...

Interesting 2008 - Conway Hall

Interesting 2008 - Keep Wire In Correct Groove: Man

Interesting 2008 - backstage: Getting ready to go on

Gemma Teed: Gemma talked about horses

Collyn Ahart Chipperfield: Collyn talked about a shift from...

Daniel Raven Ellison: Daniel talked about geography

Interesting 2008 - the plan

Interesting 2008 - the plan

Shoe Buddies: Alice, Nick and me

Michael Johnson: Michael talked about the history of graphic...

Michael Johnson: Michael talked about the history of graphic...

Phil Gyford: Phil talked about (and gave demonstrations of)...

Phil Gyford: Phil talked about (and gave demonstrations of)...

Matt Dent: Matt talked about how he designed the backs of...

Waking up slowly. Spent a while drifting in and out of sleep listening to the Archers omnibus.

Nearly home after a lovely day.

At the Enterprise. Are we at the wrong pub?

interesting2008 over. It was quite quite brilliant. To the pub.

Interesting2008 is BRILLIANT. Lunch now.

The IBM Katamari is forming. 4-ish cars from the front.

Train delayed by 5 mins. Grumble.

Matt shows us his Dopplr quilt

Matt and Alex come to Hurlsey: Andy SC shows off some...

Matt and Alex come to Hurlsey: Talking hardware

Bed time. Up early for the 7:38 Interesting train. See you onboard / at Waterloo / at Conway Hall.

One hour long presentation finished & sent using http://drop.io. Thanks for that Andy. 3 min...

Dopplr tells me that my average travel speed is about the same as a duck. This makes me happy....

Procrastinating. Maybe it’s lunchtime.

Working on two presentations today. One needs to be 1 hour long, the other needs to be 3 minutes....

Good morning. Hello, Ibuprofen.

Conversations: Maggoty cheese. Nathan Barley. Laminate passes. Long Island Iced Tea.

Trains are annoying (and infrequent). Rachel is nice (very kind). Headaches are annoying (ow ow)....

Train to Winchester to celebrate @alicebartlett leaving the team. Um. That sounds wrong. Sad to be...

Mrs Roo has ‘damaged tissue’ in her toe. Poor thing. Painkillers and rest for her.

My del.icio.us bookmarks, according to Wordle.net:...

Mrs Roo has some foot pain. Trying to work out if it’s (as suggested by the pharmacist) gout....

My CV, according to Wordle.net:...

Adding myself to Interesting 2008 attendee wiki http://tinyurl.com/4w96n2 Hoping more attendees add...