Life on Mars

Category: Geek

  • Aspire cosy

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    I meant to blog this last week, but didn’t get there. I spent bank holiday Monday (well, the afternoon at least) making a little cover for my aspire one. I’ve been throwing it in a drybag along with the powercord and my portable harddrive, and then dumping that in a pannier to take it to…

  • Fly away

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    We’re off soon on our winter warmer holiday to Florida. How soon? Well, Virgin have this really neat little feature that counts down for you when you log in, so: That soon! Well, less than that now of course. I think that’s a really nifty thing to put on the site. I’m impressed. It really…

  • Big Screen Bonanza!

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    In the full spirit of end of the year reviews, Flash Brighton and BANG got together last night and did a screening of some of the best animation and you tube stuff out there. This was apparently the biggest ever, with a packed house of around 200 people cramming in to watch the show! We…

  • Robots FTW

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    Last night (in spite of my stiff neck, which is much improved today – now I can feel the muscles in my arm where I tried to grab the handrail to save myself) I went to a Brighton Girl Geek event. “Batteries not included – a beginner’s guide to building robots”. It was great! Emily…

  • Geeks, cholera and bikes!

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    Feels like it’s been a long week already, but it hasn’t. I think I’m fighting off a bit of a cold thing – spent most of Wednesday asleep on the sofa in front of the fire (and yes, the fire is doing a great job of brightening up winter evenings and reducing the length of…

  • Planning time!

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    Well, after the disasterous year in the veg patch this year, it’s reached the time of year to plan for the future again. Yay! This is a high point, it’s got to be said. When everything is potential, and next year you’ll beat the slugs and the pigeons, and the sun will shine and the…

  • Small but mighty

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    So, as I slipped into my last post, I recently bought myself an Acer Aspire One. I tried so hard to fight it, I really did. I mean, I can’t claim to really really need a portable computer. In fact, I hated and loathed my laptop in the previous job, because it was so damned…

  • FOTB08 – day 3

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    Sorry for the delay in posting this – it’s just all go around here!The third and final day of Flash on the Beach for me started with Keith Peters talking on “Advanced ActionScript Animation”. It’s a bit startling to rush into a talk late and be met with a slide saying “Numerical Integration” in big…

  • FOTB08 – day 2

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    Day two of Flash on the Beach 2008 dawned, and at least this time I knew it started at 9. 9 is such an effort, now I’m used to a relaxed 9.30 start. Scary.

  • FOTB08 day 1

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    So much to write about! It’s  been a busy few days just for a change at the moment! I’ll get back to the weekend, but I want to write down my thoughts on Flash on the Beach (Brighton 08) before I lose them. The final geek event of September in Brighton is well underway! I’m…

  • Continuing the geek – BarcampBrighton3

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    Having finished blogging Friday I can now move on to the weekend proper. It was another geek event – BarcampBrighton3.  For anyone unfamiliar with the barcamp idea (and that would probably  be most people), a group of people get together and present stuff to each other that they are interested in. Basically. The official word…

  • dconstruct 08 – part 2

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    I said it was a busy few days – even blogging just the Friday is taking ages! After lunch was Daniel Burka, who is the creative director at Digg and one of the founders of pownce. He was talking about how to best design your site to foster not just interaction, but the ‘right’ kind…