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2008.11.20: At #relive08, opening presenter is complete with red avatar wings
2008.11.20: Castronova foussing on "the game" not "the virtual". Conference as game, shades of Conference 2.0
2008.11.20: #relive08 Castronova foussing on "the game" not "the virtual". Conference as game, shades of Conference 2.0 (why can't you autotag?)
2008.11.20: #relive08, Ted a bit VW101, but getting better. RW-VW trade is $1bn+, but VW internal trade is about $20bn - think small country
2008.11.20: #relive08 hiked halfway cross-campus through DOOM like corridors to the first workshop - MMORPG/WoW focus
2008.11.20: spy :: visualizes the conversations on Twitter, Friendfeed, Flickr, Blogs and more.
2008.11.17: Off to plymouth for the day to see the uni and two four and talk SL
2008.11.14: Listen to Fish on Friday - Planet Rock
2008.11.14: Indian probe lands on Moon's surface
2008.11.13: Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)
2008.11.12: At the NHS innovation event. Very conference 1.0
2008.11.09: Survivors - BBC TV - New Series
2008.11.06: Good day working on the PREVIEW Editor http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/preview for our eLearning in SL project
2008.11.06: Bloggingheads.tv - diavlogs - Jaron Lanier on AI
2008.11.06: The Loebner Prize from a judge's perspective
2008.11.05: Michael Wesch's "A Vision of Students Today"
2008.11.05: Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web
2008.11.05: Having a bleary-eyed breakfast after last night's election night. First meeting in a hour - Coventry here I come
2008.11.05: Watching Obama/McCain on BBC and Twitter - Twitter far more fun and dynamic
2008.11.05: Just been hang-gliding in SL as an antidote to the election - although chatting to an Ohio resident at the same time
2008.11.05: OK, bed time, it's all over and there may not even be any shouting. Best bit was US pundit calling for Rajesh Mirchandani to be sacked.
2008.11.04: Down at stratford for the RSC hamlet with david tennant and jean luc picard
2008.11.03: Speaking at #cgames08 today in Wolverhampton. No idea what time though! Finished Susan Blackmore's Consciousness book - good read
2008.10.31: Relaxing back in the UK after flight home via Dusseldorf as Zurich-BHX was over-booked. More time to read John Searle though.
2008.10.29: Relaxing in Edinburgh after the JISC Virtual Worlds event before the late train down to Bru,
2008.10.28: Just passed snow near staffs
2008.10.28: Last minute packing for a crazy trip of Birmingham-Stirling-Birmingham-Zurich-Birmingham talking SL to educators, and internal comms people
2008.10.26: Chatsworth - Sotheby's at Chatsworth
2008.10.26: Lovely quiet morning at the cottage courtesy of the clock change. Reading Susan Blackmore's Conversations on Consciousness - great book.
2008.10.24: Good debate and conference 2.0 ing at #hellodigital
2008.10.23: Eightbar comment on my mirror worlds presentation
2008.10.23: Crazy day - Birmingham Island launch in SL, then JISC National Workshop on virtual worlds in Coventry
2008.10.22: Conference 2.0 - a post #vwlondon rant
2008.10.22: Catching up on emails post #vwlondon and posting Leon's seesmic interview to our web site
2008.10.22: Weirdest thing about #vwlondon - walking outside at the end after the ARG session and seeing an Apache h/c flying over the house of commons
2008.10.21: #vwlondon ARG session - still never seen an ARG better than Nokia Game - and that started in 1999 - so ARGs almost 10 yrs old, not 5
2008.10.21: #vwlondon ARGs as "Play for Today" for the 21st Century
2008.10.21: #vwlondon - read Charles Stross where MI5 uses an ARG to get players to carry out real intelligence tasks
2008.10.21: The book is Halting State, sri!
2008.10.21: #vwlondon the book is called Halting State
2008.10.21: #vwlondon over. At least @rooreynolds knows how to run a Conference 2.0 session - twitter on the screen, live googling and twittering
2008.10.21: #vwlondon some nice integration by IBM between and other OA tool like their version of slideshare and IM - IM can launch instant room
2008.10.21: Why did @ePredator americanise the Douglas Adams quote - it's "down the road to the chemist" - not drugstore! The Vogons have been told.
2008.10.21: Day 2 at #vwlondon - Niniane Wang talking about Lively - no user numbers but US, Brazil,China dominate. Not presenting today so can relax!
2008.10.21: #vwlondon - Northrop Grumman talking about their custom internal Second Life implementation for rapid simulation prototyping
2008.10.21: #vwlondon - NG also using kiosks to get around access issues
2008.10.21: #vwlondon @epredator speaking on business process management in virtual worlds - that's why he's not twittering!
2008.10.20: Getting ready for the panel session. Even though the laptop crashed at the LL demo Halo did her stuff well - nice demo of the emotion engine
2008.10.20: At Virtual Worlds London for the next two days. Presenting today on the LL stand and in the Mirror Worlds panel. Say hi if you're down here.
2008.10.16: Nice meal at Ego in Kenilworth
2008.10.15: looking at the lovely autumn colours emerging in the garden
2008.10.13: Google GeoEye returns first photo
2008.10.09: Off to Moseley CDT meeting
2008.10.08: Good day at the Virtual Worlds Forum Unconference yesterday. We really ought to have a Web 2.0 unconference in Brum. Now at SGI.
2008.10.06: Replanning the week in the wake of the VWF cancellation. Poor Sasha. Might still head down on Tuesday to catch up with people
2008.10.04: Spending the weekend looking at fuzzy logic
2008.10.02: At the Barclays event with Michael Portillo
2008.09.29: SpaceX Falcon 1 gets to orbit
2008.09.28: Just heading back from the games fringe debate at the conservative party conference in Brum
2008.09.25: Return to Retsmah Crossing!
2008.09.25: Back in the UK and off to Coventry U for a JISC meeting
2008.09.24: PICNIC 08
2008.09.23: At the #picnic08 Eduverse pre-meet in Amsterdam
2008.09.23: Whole of Benelux being modelled 1:1 in Active Worlds. Astounding.
2008.09.23: CocoDeep looks neat - Minority Report meets VLE
2008.09.23: Going to bed early, up at 0430 in order to get to #picnic08 in Amsterdam for most of the rest of the week
2008.09.21: Chores done, the weekend starts here! Oh, its 4.30 on Sunday afternoon :-(
2008.09.18: Off to SGI for the tenants meeting and party
2008.09.17: Getting ready to host 27 eLearning experts from Denmark and Norway at Millennium Point - all coming because of our work in SL.
2008.09.16: At Foresight event on the future of education
2008.09.15: At AWM for a smart home event
2008.09.12: Day 2 at #svw08. John Burwell from Forterra says Open Source = Communisim. Discuss!
2008.09.11: Still a #svw08. Newsround video didn't come off, all I got to do was press a button to make the avatar clap. Good clap though!
2008.09.11: At serious virtual worlds in Coventry for the next two days
2008.09.07: Up at the cottage for Jo's Birthday with the MAM crowd. Decided against BBQ so of course it stayed dry!
2008.09.02: Kids doubly excited, Deb's coming back early and I might be on Newsround
2008.09.01: Hi from Daden in Moseley, Joanne said to say high
2008.08.29: Canyoning
2008.08.28: Via Ferrata
2008.08.26: Mountain Biking
2008.08.25: White Water Rafting and Hydrospeeding
2008.08.24: Gorges de la Caranaca
2008.08.23: Just about to board flight to Barcelona. Holiday!
2008.08.21: Four hours to kill in Peterboro waiting for a passport
2008.08.20: At BCU talking about universities of the future
2008.08.20: Video: The MoD challenges schools & colleges to compete for robotic defense contract | Technology | guardian.co.uk
2008.08.17: Virtual ROTW - Chilas
2008.08.16: The Wall in SL
2008.08.16: Virtual ROTW - Karimabad
2008.08.16: Got my seat ready for the performance of the Wall at NMC in SL tonight. Joff Fassnacht says its awesome.
2008.08.16: This gig is awesome.
2008.08.16: Speechless. In what other concert can you go and dance on the set afterwards!
2008.08.15: Virtual ROTW: Karimabad
2008.08.15: Waiting for Jo at BHX
2008.08.15: Not two days of sun in a row!
2008.08.14: Virtual ROTW: Taxkorgan
2008.08.14: Unveiling the Astrocube
2008.08.14: Rise of the rat-brained robots - tech - 13 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech
2008.08.13: Virtual ROTW: Karakul Lake
2008.08.13: Virtual ROTW - Kashgar
2008.08.12: Just had a mail from Deb, she's made it into China and Kashgar, but sounds like more hurdles to jump through before they're allowed on
2008.08.12: Virtual ROTW - Irkeshtam Pass?
2008.08.09: Camping in Torrential rain
2008.08.08: Off surfing in the Gower - with a gammy leg :-(
2008.08.08: Watching the Olympics opening - I wonder if Deb is watching in Kashgar since she arrived in China today.
2008.08.08: The textures in the stadium are stunning, and those footprints across the city!
2008.08.08: Weird to follow kids in national dress carrying the national flag with soldiers goose-stepping it to the flagpole.
2008.08.08: And how did they get all those drums out the way so fast?
2008.08.08: That amazing scroll. Now its representing the Silk Road, Deborah's route for the last 2 weeks
2008.08.08: Greeks first into the stadium - did Soulla say her cousin was on the Greek or Cypriot team?
2008.08.08: Just heard that Deb and the team have not been allowed into China today, so much for my musings below! They may get in on Monday.
2008.08.07: Virtual ROTW - Sary Tash
2008.08.07: Team America:World Police and half a bottle of cold white wine, what a nice way to relax for the evening
2008.08.06: Virtual ROTW - Osh
2008.08.06: A Jay just flew onto the tree outisde my open window, not more than 10 feet away
2008.08.06: MAGIC Interactive Map
2008.08.06: Llangennith Surf Report, Surf Forecast and Surf Webcams
2008.08.05: Skitch.com + Skitch = fast and fun screen capture and image sharing.
2008.08.05: Suddenly drowning in things to do
2008.08.04: Back at the desk for the first time in a week :-(
2008.08.04: Martian Rumours
2008.08.04: SpaceX Falcon Fails
2008.08.03: Virtual ROTW - Samarkand 2
2008.08.03: Are there somewhere islands....
2008.08.03: Day surfing at Rosneiger on Anglesey, actually saw some sun!
2008.08.02: Virtual ROTW - Samarkand
2008.08.01: Home for an 18 hour stop over to drop Jo off for her flight to Denmark, then back to Glan Dena, North Wales for the rest of MAM Family Meet
2008.08.01: Home for an 18 hour stop over to drop Jo off for her flight to Denmark, then back to Glan Dena, North Wales for the rest of MAM Family Meet
2008.08.01: Home for an 18 hour stop over to drop Jo off for her flight to Denmark, then back to Glan Dena, North Wales for the rest of MAM Family Meet
2008.08.01: Home for an 18 hour stop over to drop Jo off for her flight to Denmark, then back to Glan Dena, North Wales for the rest of MAM Family Meet
2008.07.27: Anyone else on the Stage 2 Diwan run tonight?
2008.07.27: Virtual ROTW - Somewhere in Uzbekistan
2008.07.26: Just back from seeing Ruth in Lord of the Flies at Stage 2. Good production - especially the deaths!
2008.07.25: Virtual ROTW - Uzbekistan Border
2008.07.25: Meeting in Digbeth then drop a BBQ off at St Basils.
2008.07.25: MapTube
2008.07.24: Virtual ROTW - Beyneu
2008.07.23: Virtual ROTW - Kazakhstan
2008.07.23: Glad I managed to get down to the Windmill Patisserie in #Moseley and back safely what with all this stalking
2008.07.23: Virtually at the Virtual Policy Forum meeting in London and SGI Nexus
2008.07.22: Virtual ROTW - Astrakhan
2008.07.21: Virtual ROTW - Volgograd (Stalingrad)
2008.07.21: Glorious day at the cottage, a pity I'm waiting for the gas man :-(
2008.07.21: Off to see Wall-E with the kids
2008.07.21: Wall-E was superb. A Silent Running for the 21st Century, with lots of references to 2001. Deserves an Oscar.
2008.07.21: aah, the weekend. And rain, so no need to mow the lawn!
2008.07.21: Relaxing at the cottage, still trying to make myself like Whisky.
2008.07.21: Just noticed that my blog has just had its 5th Birthday! Was reading Pattern Recognition, and just happened to recommend it again yesterday
2008.07.21: Glorious day at the cottage, a pity I'm waiting for the gas man :-(
2008.07.20: Climbing at Froggat
2008.07.20: Virtual ROTW - Sea of Azov
2008.07.20: Relaxing at the cottage, still trying to make myself like Whisky.
2008.07.20: Just noticed that my blog has just had its 5th Birthday! Was reading Pattern Recognition, and just happened to recommend it again yesterday
2008.07.19: Virtual ROTW - Rostov-on-Don
2008.07.19: aah, the weekend. And rain, so no need to mow the lawn!
2008.07.19: Wall-E was superb. A Silent Running for the 21st Century, with lots of references to 2001. Deserves an Oscar.
2008.07.18: James Wagner Au talks to Abi
2008.07.18: Virtual ROTW - Mariupol
2008.07.18: Off to see Wall-E with the kids
2008.07.17: Babylon 5 in one song and video
2008.07.17: Virtual ROTW - Kherson, Ukraine
2008.07.17: Rediscovering the joys of Janice Long's thru the night Radi2 show on iPlayer. Still not as good as Jane Gazzo though :-(
2008.07.17: Interval at an excellent production of henry six part three at the rep
2008.07.16: Virtual ROTW - Uman
2008.07.15: Virtual ROTW - Lviv
2008.07.15: Hopefully launching our web browser for SL today - assuming @SoullaStylianou and I can agree what colour it should be!
2008.07.14: Virtual ROTW - Slovakia/Ukraine Border
2008.07.14: Shipping Ruth down to my parents today, then its just Jo and I in the house all week. It's feeling very empty.
2008.07.13: Virtual ROTW - Terchova, Slovakia
2008.07.12: Off up to the Peaks for a friend's 50th, camping under the stars (or rain clouds more likely)
2008.07.12: Kids at Stage 2 so quiet morning to get our web browser for SL ready for release next week
2008.07.11: At SGI for a visit by civil servants from DBERR
2008.07.11: Hiperia3D News: 20 Technologies For 3D Worlds On The Web
2008.07.11: Get Satisfaction - People-Powered Customer Service
2008.07.10: Ququestion to Web 2.0 brummies - anyone doing any interesting in terms of using Web 2.0 to share/promote/sell music, esp older styles.
2008.07.10: Digital Birmingham is asking by the way (and sorry hit return mid edit last time!)
2008.07.10: Wolves working on emotions in chat Bots
2008.07.09: Deborah's off to Mumbai
2008.07.09: Just back from seeing Deborah off from Wooton-under-Edge. The girls and I next get to see her on 20th Sept. :-(
2008.07.09: Deb and the rest of the group will be blogging the trip at www.converj.com/ROTW/, complete with Google Earth mash-up of course!
2008.07.09: Getting ready to take Deb down to Gloucester to start her overland trip to Mumbai. 10 weeks away!
2008.07.07: Weekend spent getting Deborah ready for The Big Trip. SL Bot day again today - lets crack giving inventory and sitting on objects by name.
2008.07.07: Hurrah! Had my paper on AI in SL accepted for the BCS AI Conference in Cambridge in December.
2008.07.04: OpenCalais
2008.07.04: OpenLearn - The Open University
2008.07.04: Show Us a Better Way - UK Govt Mash-up Competition
2008.07.04: Just had second breakfast. Was up at 4.45am to drop Jo at school for a trip to the Somme. Big difference in traffic between 5.15 and 5.45.
2008.07.04: Digital Urban: Google Earth Thematic Mapping Engine
2008.07.03: At Apres on Summerrow sending out the July newsletter (yes I know I said we'd do it Tuesday). 12" sausage baguette and 1/2 pt IPA for lunch.
2008.07.02: SL5B Data Viz Panel
2008.07.02: Working on the MVP Editor today, might even get out into the sun
2008.07.01: Today's task - get the Daden newsletter out. If you're not on our mailing list just Tweet me for a copy
2008.07.01: Just got my browsable web prim working in SL - and no one around to show it to!
2008.06.30: finally got the days admin out the way, listening to Robots on The Night Air (great Oz ABC podcast), apt since the rest of the day is bots
2008.06.30: SL Bot Day - better movement, plus IM and Friend handling
2008.06.29: Ripping Deb's CDs onto the iPOD in preparation for her Big Trip
2008.06.28: Another great LAMDA evening at Stage 2. Ruth did Anne Frank. Some superb performances.
2008.06.27: Afternoon of accounts :-(
2008.06.26: Testing at SGUL over, went well I think
2008.06.26: Down at St Georges for the first student test of the MVP Virtual Patient system in SL. So far it demos well as they say!
2008.06.25: 2bn users and 100m concurrent users for "SL" by 2018?
2008.06.25: To wolves to talk about emotions in chat Bots
2008.06.24: Off to London
2008.06.23: AMEE - The world's energy meter
2008.06.21: Finished
2008.06.21: Up at 5.30 for a walk!
2008.06.21: Up at the cottage with a load of Deb's work mates ready for tomorrows 14/28 mile walk (we're doing 14 but I did do another 14 last week)
2008.06.20: DataViz at the Life 2.0 Conference
2008.06.20: Sat in the star bucks at the BBC sipping a latte
2008.06.16: Max More's Strategic Philosophy - Doctor Who: Deontologist or Consequentialist?
2008.06.16: wondering if anyone has ever visited every named place on a RISK board?
2008.06.16: Still recovering from yesterdays 7 hr walk across the Peaks
2008.06.15: Last test
2008.06.15: Last test (but one)
2008.06.15: Last test
2008.06.15: Last test (but one)
2008.06.15: Test of quick posting
2008.06.15: Spent half the evening trying to get a 6' bed to turn a right angle at the top of the cottage stairs - very Right Said Fred/Douglas Adams
2008.06.14: Linux News: Virtual Worlds: Virtual Space Travel, Part 2: Surfing to Mars
2008.06.14: Test of MT to Twitter
2008.06.14: Off up to the cottage ready to the reverse St Basils walk with Jo tomorrow
2008.06.13: Trying to get into the Machinima festival in Twinity but failing
2008.06.13: Off to SGI for the day
2008.06.13: Travels with Rhody
2008.06.12: Wondering why on earth I told my Vista Vaio to accept a Windows Update :-(
2008.06.12: AFP: Paralysed man takes a walk in virtual world
2008.06.12: Intel® Mash Maker
2008.06.12: Just voting at euro beat. Brilliant show as ever. Come to the Hippodrome and see it
2008.06.11: at SGI for the v-commerce event
2008.06.11: Chris Yapp from Cap Gemini talking a lot of sense
2008.06.11: Rohan Freeman also good, echoing my real/virtual debate of yesterday
2008.06.11: 'virtual worlds are the beginning of making everyone an artist and a producer' - B2C becomes B2B
2008.06.10: drinks time at #beingdigital
2008.06.10: Being Digital
2008.06.10: At #beingdigital. @willmcinnes speaking later. hiya @awhitehouse
2008.06.09: Watching the WWDC hash storm on Twitter via Summize and Twistori. Whatever happens will O2 lock the rest of us out?
2008.06.09: Coffee and WiFi at ICC before going in to the #bigdebate
2008.06.09: #bigdebate - good 1st attempt. How about the Post doing one every 3mo on digital issues. Nice talk @BhamPostJoanna - no need for the nerves!
2008.06.09: Any at #bigdebate or otherwise going to Being Digital in London tomorrow?
2008.06.09: Anyone else going to The Big Debate in Birmingham today?
2008.06.09: Perhaps we ought to start using Twitter and some geo-coding to track the cheapest petrol stations
2008.06.09: Transumanar
2008.06.08: At my daughter Joannas baptism and confirmation
2008.06.06: IT posters to cover your empty walls
2008.06.06: Mal Burns Annex: CHAMELEON
2008.06.05: Trying out the number 2 and public transport to Coventry
2008.06.05: 74 mins but that includes 20 min of working against 45 min by car. And bus and train cheaper
2008.06.05: Future Scanner
2008.06.04: No meetings day!
2008.06.04: Open Library (Open Library)
2008.06.03: At the Rep for the press night of Our House
2008.06.01: Great day at the UK Games Expo in Brum
2008.06.01: At a guide do for Jo's trip to Denmark
2008.05.30: Another great idea for the virtual birmingham visualisation hub today
2008.05.29: Lunch with the family at Coffee Cabana in Moseley
2008.05.29: YouTube - Hands Free 3D: Second Life Navigation Demo
2008.05.29: Catching up on holiday emails
2008.05.29: Many Eyes
2008.05.28: Diaspora***** - Greg Egan
2008.05.27: Phoenix Lander on Mars
2008.05.26: Cooking a roast for supper at the cottage - very windy but the sun is out!
2008.05.25: a quite mornings admin before we head up to the cottage
2008.05.24: At the gay pride launch in Brum
2008.05.23: Blown away just run up the realxtend SL clone on the train for the first time
2008.05.23: Off to brighton again. Speaking to Communicators In Business conference
2008.05.23: At the re opening of the Village on Hurst St
2008.05.22: Human - Machine Convergence
2008.05.22: £75 for a tank of diesel!
2008.05.20: Back in Moseley after meetings in Coventry and Birmingham, but guess I'll be working long into the night
2008.05.19: Off to SGI for a partners event, just booked on Being Digital - any other Brummies going?
2008.05.19: Recovering from a weekend in the Forest of Dean and second Go Ape in a month
2008.05.14: making myself scare whilst Deb hosts her book club
2008.05.14: scarce even!
2008.05.14: At Smart Buildings at SGI for the day, and helping out the PREVIEW team
2008.05.13: Learnt lesson from yesterday - not rushing outside too soon
2008.05.13: Posted 2 more videos to the dadenmedia channel on YouTube on our JISC funded SL project, one is eDrama, the other is a virtual patient
2008.05.13: A watched FTP never completes!
2008.05.12: Trying to coax a theatrical performance from 3 avatars - 2 was bad enough!
2008.05.12: Listening to TWiT, still a good tech show
2008.05.12: TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world
2008.05.12: Still a bit chilly at 10 o'clock. Too many trees in Moseley!
2008.05.12: Finished plotting Deb's route on Google Earth - the new definition of remoteness must be "a lack of Flickr dots on Google Earth"
2008.05.12: Working at home for the day, in the garden, in shorts and t-shirt. The bliss of home-working, although still a bit chilly at 08.30!
2008.05.11: Enough weeding for the day, get a bit of admin out of the way then back out to enjoy the sun
2008.05.08: Just back from CovUni doing some bot testing. Stopped off to get ice-creams from the supermarket for the kids - 1/10th the van price!
2008.05.06: London again, to see Linden Lab
2008.05.06: Just back from seeing my brother in Poole. An afternoon on the beach!
2008.05.03: Relaxing after a bath after 7 hours solid gardening. High-rise flats have a lot to be said for them!
2008.05.02: Juggling mails and code updates, then off to Millennium Point and BCU and then Birmingham University. Must remember to drop the "City".
2008.05.02: Just posted a quick vid of SL standard animations at http://tinyurl.com/68acft
2008.05.02: Just back from watching Black Watch at Warwick Arts Centre. Pretty good and certainly original, but not quite worth the standing ovations
2008.05.01: Another early trip down to london
2008.04.28: Back from london good meeting at st georges discussing virtual patients
2008.04.27: Aah - so that's what the fireworks down the road were! Just picked the kids up from Diwan Balti, after the after-show party for Teechers
2008.04.27: Off to london with the kids to see NIE
2008.04.27: Back from London, New International Encounter as good as ever - http://www.nie-theatre.com/
2008.04.27: Just getting our "bot down" app to post to twitter so @SoullaStylianou can monitor it and we can route it to SMS - Twitter as plumbing
2008.04.27: The week: Mon PREVIEW, Tue VirtualBrum, Wed eAccess, Thu PREVIEW, Fri Potential client. PREVIEW at http://www.elu.sgul.ac.uk/preview/
2008.04.27: At Lunar society event on the future of birmingham
2008.04.27: To bed early, got to be up at 0545 to get down to London for e-Access with Simon Stevens
2008.04.27: Early mornings :-(
2008.04.27: Good day at eAccess yesterday, today its back to PREVIEW and a quick trip to UoCoventry at lunchtime
2008.04.27: At the crescent for teachers by stage two
2008.04.27: Eurobeat is coming to the Hippodrome in June hurrah! The best Eurovision parody ever. WAVE THOSE FLAGS!
2008.04.27: Clearing the decks of admin before the weekend. Deb away tonight to learn how to drive a 4x4 ready for the Big Trip!
2008.04.27: Still stuck doing admin :-(
2008.04.27: Finished with admin for the night, hurrah! Still more to do over the weekend :-(. Quick supper then prep for the move of the web site.
2008.04.27: Picked the kids up, finally chilling out with a glass of wine and a little coding project
2008.04.27: Bought up most of Melbicks, but garden just swallowed it :-(. Next up, move the web site to the new server.
2008.04.27: Final test of my Twitter to blog link, so every tweet will also appear on Converjed. Question is, should I do the reverse as well?
2008.04.27: I lied, quick test of the category function
2008.04.26: I lied, quick test of the category function
2008.04.26: Final test of my Twitter to blog link, so every tweet will also appear on Converjed. Question is, should I do the reverse as well?
2008.04.26: Bought up most of Melbicks, but garden just swallowed it :-(. Next up, move the web site to the new server.
2008.04.06: Snow!
2008.04.04: Gargunnock House - Landmark Trust Holiday
2008.03.27: Official Google Blog: New Google AJAX Language API - Tools for translation and language detection
2008.03.21: And we're back....
2007.10.16: Thought Controlled Avatar
2007.10.16: SL to USB Interfacing
2007.10.15: X|Media|Lab
2007.10.15: InDuality Brings All Worlds to One Web Browser
2007.10.13: Wikipedia API - still not there?
2007.10.12: Practice Based PhDs , or "So should Picasso get a PhD?"
2007.10.12: SmartLab
2007.10.12: Second Life hits 10m Registrations
2007.10.10: New relase of the TM4L Topic Maps Editor
2007.10.10: Pretty neat whole sim terraforming tool
2007.10.05: Qwaq
2007.10.05: Flower effects in SL
2007.10.04: Artificial General Intelligence
2007.10.04: Topincs Topic Map Editor
2007.10.04: OpenSim
2007.10.04: Two thin client SL browsers
2007.10.03: EU Framework 7 vs DARPA Grand Challenges
2007.10.02: Web in SL
2007.09.27: PICNIC 07
2007.09.27: RESTBot
2007.09.21: Google backs private Moon landing
2007.09.20: SL Architecture Working Group
2007.09.20: Warp Drive, Faster Than Light: Breaking the Interstellar Distance Barrier - A conference by the British Interplanetary Society
2007.09.19: Cyber Extruder
2007.09.19: Virtual Worlds for the Visually Impaired
2007.08.31: Avatars will soon outnumber humans
2007.08.29: Everyscape
2007.08.29: SpaceTime
2007.08.28: Edinburgh Fringe 2007
2007.08.22: Le Valet D'Couer
2007.07.16: Hype Machine and Seeqpod
2007.07.11: First C# code and LibSL Bot
2007.07.07: Chumby
2007.07.06: SL Controlled Rocket Launcher
2007.07.04: Birmingham's Not Shit
2007.06.29: Stigmergic Systems
2007.06.26: The Sci Phi Show
2007.06.25: Lego World Trailer
2007.06.22: Kaneva
2007.06.21: Strange Maps
2007.06.21: Encyclopedia of Life
2007.06.21: The $20,000 Question: An Essay by Extropia DaSilva
2007.06.20: Teen SL Blog
2007.06.20: Zoho - web database
2007.06.20: Second Earth
2007.06.18: Streetviewr
2007.06.18: 7th Son
2007.05.30: Destroy TV
2007.05.25: Ghost - A new AI project
2007.05.25: The Signal
2007.05.21: Gun Porn
2007.05.14: Wandora - Topic Map Extractor
2007.05.11: Independent SL Stats
2007.05.08: SL Community Convention Blog
2007.05.03: Sl @ 6 Million
2007.04.26: SL as a virtual meeting service
2007.04.24: Google Gapminder
2007.04.18: SL Country Stats
2007.04.18: Created in Birmingham
2007.04.18: Real Life Architects in Second Life
2007.04.18: Ernst Adams
2007.04.16: Architecture Page
2007.04.13: Nice use of SL for public consultation/pressure
2007.04.13: ComBOTS
2007.04.13: Micro-UAVs
2007.04.10: Knowledge Represenation
2007.04.10: aLife Ants
2007.04.10: Second Life Speedbuild
2007.04.10: MMO market worth $1bn
2007.04.05: My SL Project
2007.04.02: ACME GeoRSS Viewer
2007.03.31: Voice and the future of SL
2007.03.31: SL Brands Map
2007.03.30: Future Wiki
2007.03.30: Shoulder mounted follow-gaze cam
2007.03.29: Playstation Home demo
2007.03.27: GeoGlobe
2007.03.27: Second Life tops 5 Million
2007.03.26: Twitter Vision
2007.03.25: Metaversum
2007.03.25: Areae
2007.03.25: Kaneva - 3D chat and media orientated environment
2007.03.25: Next Gen: Web Integration with Virtual Worlds
2007.03.23: Guardian Media Summit
2007.03.23: Guild Wars vs World of Warcraft Dance Contest
2007.03.21: BBC Thinking Aloud on Runescape
2007.03.18: Dedric Mauriac's Blog
2007.03.13: SL EcoWiki
2007.03.12: Virtual worlds set for shake-up
2007.03.12: Sony unveils its new 3D universe
2007.03.10: Daden Prime Delivered
2007.03.04: Graham Bleathman Illustration
2007.03.03: My Second Life
2007.03.03: Metaverse Roadmap
2007.03.03: NASA Orion CEV
2007.03.02: UVVY
2007.03.01: NSPCC in Habbo Hotel
2007.02.28: Tetrads
2007.02.27: Lonergan and a "generalized empirical method" (GEM)
2007.02.27: Media Tetrads, McLuhan and Virtual Worlds
2007.02.25: Second Life 4 million
2007.02.22: Talking to TV People
2007.02.14: ClickOn - Second Life
2007.02.09: Wifi Enabled Picture Frames
2007.02.09: MyVu
2007.02.09: Yahoo Pipes
2007.02.09: PBWiki.com
2007.02.09: WALRUS Data Visualisation
2007.02.08: West Midlands Digital Dinner
2007.02.08: BBC Radio 4 ClickOn - Connected Home
2007.02.08: Mediascapes
2007.02.07: Digital Futures
2007.02.06: The Click Heard Round the World
2007.01.30: BBC Radio 4 Interview
2007.01.30: BFI Film and TV Database
2007.01.26: Janice Long's R2 Show
2007.01.26: If you could upload a digital copy of yourself into SL, would you?
2007.01.26: Street-fighting robot challenge announced
2007.01.23: CBBC World
2007.01.21: Girlfriend in a Coma - Douglas Coupland ****
2007.01.21: Segways
2007.01.19: Second Life Stargates
2007.01.18: RSS API for the BBC Movies Site
2007.01.17: 0 Degrees of Separation Tour
2007.01.16: Web Principles
2007.01.16: Joost aka The Venice Project
2007.01.15: The Free Sound Project
2007.01.15: Will Hutton - A Vintage Year for Ideas that will Change our World
2007.01.12: Second Life Growth
2007.01.08: The Rosetta Project
2007.01.08: Kevin Kelly
2007.01.04: Nice BBC News Map using RSS and GoogleMaps.
2007.01.04: Torchwood - The Season Finale and Christian Imagery *****
2007.01.02: Shit Day
2007.01.01: New Years Day
2006.12.25: Christmas Day
2006.12.22: The Negroponte Switch - 10 Years On
2006.12.22: Foresight and Horizon Scanning
2006.12.22: Map of the Internet by IP Address
2006.12.22: Dont Click It
2006.12.20: Top 10 UI Bloopers in the Movies
2006.12.15: Second Life hits 2m users
2006.12.11: Custom last names in Second Life
2006.12.09: Simple intro to XTM 2.0
2006.12.08: Firefly on Multiverse
2006.12.08: News at Seven
2006.12.06: Freak Zone Live
2006.12.06: PVRs Rule
2006.12.02: Wikipedia as RDF
2006.11.29: 3 Stages of the Digital Divide
2006.11.29: AI in SL
2006.11.17: Starship Dimensions
2006.11.14: Celestia
2006.11.14: Croquet
2006.11.03: SL Weather Mashup
2006.11.02: Launching a new kind of warfare
2006.11.01: Synthtravels - Virtual Tour Guides!
2006.10.30: Guardian in SL again
2006.10.30: Observer in SL
2006.10.25: Scrolling RSS Display in Second Life
2006.10.20: We Feel Fine
2006.10.20: Maps of War - The Middle East
2006.10.20: Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge **
2006.10.20: SL Podcasts
2006.10.17: Ditching Outlook
2006.10.15: Colditz
2006.10.14: Jena Bicentenary
2006.10.14: Jena Campaign - 14th October
2006.10.13: Jena Campaign - 13 October
2006.10.12: Jena Campaign - 12 Oct 1806
2006.10.11: Jena Campaign - 11 Oct 1806
2006.10.10: Jena Campaign - 10 Oct 1806
2006.10.09: Jena Campaign - 9 Oct 1806
2006.10.09: Napoleonic Total War
2006.10.08: Jena Campaign - 8 Oct 1806
2006.10.06: First SL Product - Smart RSS Reader
2006.10.06: Second Life Dreaming
2006.10.04: Google Mail
2006.10.03: Better Life
2006.10.02: Economist article on Second Life
2006.10.02: Brumcon/Brum2600
2006.10.01: Broadband in the Peak District
2006.09.22: first sl business meeting
2006.09.22: Everyware
2006.09.20: end Posted from Second Life
2006.09.20: town hall meeting Posted from
2006.09.17: test from second life
2006.09.16: test
2006.09.16: correct title this time
2006.09.16: test title
2006.09.16: test title
2006.09.16: test title
2006.09.16: this Posted from Second Life
2006.09.16: Blogging from SL
2006.09.16: SLC - Burning Life 1
2006.09.14: Torley Linden's Blog
2006.09.14: Power Elite of SL
2006.09.14: SLC - SL Chatbots
2006.09.13: Blind Date
2006.09.13: Gapminder - World Development Dynamic Graphic
2006.09.13: wikiHow
2006.09.12: Robot Mirai Department
2006.09.11: Five Years of Consequence
2006.09.09: Second Life Chronicles - Nabaztag
2006.09.08: Second Life Chronicles - Desktop Monitor
2006.09.07: Second Life Chronicles - Neighours! and Neighbourhood
2006.09.06: Second Life Chronicles - Neighbours
2006.09.05: Life in the Metaverse Blog
2006.09.05: Second Life Chronicles - A Home
2006.09.04: Second Life Chronicles - Development
2006.09.04: Back to SL - The Second Life Chronicles
2006.09.04: Second Life Chronicles - First Land
2006.08.28: Edinburgh Fringe
2006.08.22: Vernor Vinge on the Singularity
2006.08.22: Second Life Library 2.0
2006.08.18: Suzanne Vega in SL
2006.08.16: Institute For The Future
2006.08.16: Accelerando - Charles Stross - ***1/2
2006.08.16: A Seismic Shift
2006.08.14: Googles - The GoogleMaps FlightSim
2006.08.14: The Time When
2006.08.04: TransVision06 in SL
2006.07.17: Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
2006.07.17: The Singularity Is Near ***1/2
2006.07.09: Things I Love About Birmingham - 3
2006.07.04: Bootstrap Institute
2006.06.30: SIMILE Timeline
2006.06.27: Tetons in Spring
2006.06.27: Site Graphs
2006.06.14: UKOLN IWMW 2006
2006.06.13: Birmingham Post - A Better Bunny?
2006.06.13: Email Newsletters and RSS
2006.06.13: The Long View of The Long Now
2006.06.09: Flexx - our own Nabaztag
2006.06.06: The Blue Room
2006.05.28: Launceston steam fair
2006.05.25: The New Hacker's Dictionary
2006.05.25: Most common job title
2006.05.25: GNER WiFi
2006.05.25: Large Scale Structure
2006.05.25: Scientists build a world of 'software beings'
2006.05.23: Nabaztag
2006.05.22: PaPeRo - the NEC personal robot
2006.05.17: Welcome to the Neighbourhood - Space Signpost
2006.05.15: Radio 1's Big Weekend in Second Life
2006.05.14: BBC1 Music Cubes
2006.05.12: VR Rooms
2006.05.11: The Future in Movies
2006.05.03: Pembrokeshire
2006.04.27: BBC Programme Catalogue
2006.04.22: The Globe at Durlston
2006.04.18: World Maps by Dataset
2006.04.11: Birmingham Post - Keep It Simple
2006.04.07: HumanML
2006.03.24: Top Level Ontology
2006.03.18: John Twelve Hawks - The Traveller *
2006.03.17: Millennium Point School Trip
2006.03.15: Umanify - PhotoAvatars
2006.03.14: Birmingham Post - Are You Accessible?
2006.03.12: Sgt Smith's Battle
2006.03.06: Aeroscraft
2006.03.03: Survivors
2006.02.24: Snow!
2006.02.20: Advert - Vodafone - Under The Tree
2006.02.20: Advert - Sony Bravia
2006.02.20: Advert - Volkswagen Cabriolet Flowers
2006.02.20: Locas *****