22
May
2011
H+ Conference in Melbourne
I’m going to try to get down for this. It looks like it’ll be interesting!
31
Mar
2011
SG2011
There is a lot of activity here in Copenhagen, I’ll update more about it soon when I’m a little less frazzled, but I think that this might well be the moment when the change in attitude towards real data that seems to have been building momentum in the industry actually forms into a ‘thing’!
21
Feb
2011
kettle
This is something I’d meant to post a really long time ago but got distracted by having to, well, do stuff. We’ve got a pretty normal looking kettle, and when you fill it up it feels like you fill it for a pretty normal amount of time, but I was interested to see how much we were actually putting into it (I was reading Sustainable energy without the hot air at the time, so it all makes sense).
It turns out that we were putting about three times as much water as we needed to to make two mugs of tea. What this little experiment did show was that one of the jars that tomato paste comes in is just right for two mugs of tea, so the jar lives by the kettle now.
4
Feb
2011
Navigation Project explanation
Last Friday we presented the work that Dan & Bin have been doing as a part of the Summer Scholarship that we (BVN) have got going with the Sydney Uni computer science department. I videoed it because I’m narcissistic, so if you are interested in what we’ve been up to then here it is.
22
Jan
2011
compDesGrp
I knew there was something else that I’d been working on, but I forgot to put it into the first post back. It is basically a rip off of the London design computing community. It’s a meeting every 6 weeks or so to talk about what people have been up to, and what problems they’ve been running into. The talks are really short, with a lot of emphasis on discussion.
compDesGrp.org
We’ve had 3 sessions in Sydney, 1 in Melbourne and 1 in Auckland – with another one in each coming up in the very near future. I’ve been trying to film some of the sessions, so once I get around to doing the video editing I’ll post them all on the site.