Category Archives: personal
Maintenance Stuff
I have Just updated my DNS servers so there might be a few broken pages on the site for the next few days.
Health and Online Safety
Apparently the HSE is a fan, looking over my stats this morning it seems a member of the executive was having a look around one of my sites. There is nothing unusual in this, but I would have thought that the national health service would be using better equipment than IE6 . Ok, so the [...]
Watch The Guardian do Web 2.0 Reporting Right
Have a look at this article from The Guardian. Journalist Matthew Weaver is creating a ‘live article’ tracking the weather conditions in the UK. This is how the print media should be responding to the social web and rich media. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/jan/06/snow-day-live-blog
Google Waving not Drowning
What would email look like if we set out to invent it today Wave and Drowning They claim it will revolutionise personal communication, they say it will change how we arrange our lives but Wave, Google’s latest web app, mightn’t be as ground-breaking as Google say. Getting a Google Wave account is a difficult thing. [...]
Pinged by The Guardian
Ok, so a vanity post- my post about RTE and DAB was pinged by The Guardian today. I’ve been smiling about this all day.
Mashing my Thesis
“by 2010…(Mashups) will be the dominant model (80%) for the creation of new enterprise applications ” (Rust 2008) A few people have been asking me about my Multimedia Undergrad thesis so I thought I’d just take a few minutes to go over what we did. Mashup For my thesis myself and a few friends set [...]
Rail Fail
Just a short post this week. It’s almost second nature at this point, when we hear of a news story breaking, to run the nearest media outlet to get the latest updates. Indeed when Michael Jackson died in June the torrent of users who rushed online caused several big name websites, including Google, CNN and [...]
Moved my Blog
Updated my site and moved my blog, I just have to restyle this page
Digital Cameras
Walk down any high street today and you will be hard-pressed to find an analogue camera for sale; digital is most definitely your only choice. But with seemingly hundreds of models available what should you look out for when buying your new digital camera? There are 4 important specifications to look out for when purchasing [...]
