I haven't really explained the somewhat pompous title of this blog, so I thought I should. Over the past five years or so, I've increasingly seen the benefit of using metaphor as a way of being able to cut through what can otherwise seem to be insurmountable issues. It is often much easier to solve … Continue reading By way of explanation
Category: General
Chris Anderson's article in this month's Wired seems to be making a case that massive data sets (and our ability to manipulate them) means that casuality is no longer relevant --- if you can find a corelation in data then that is all that is important. It depends on what you are trying to do... … Continue reading The importance of casuality
After a few years of taking part in the Summerburn, I've stumbled across (and joined) the International Mixtape Project...
So far it appears that there are three criteria to do this successfully... 1) go to somewhere vaguely interesting 2) don't forget to take your camera 3) don't rely on Yahoo Go to upload the photos
The combination of the updated software on my N82, Flickr and Yahoo Go, I should now be in a position to be able to upload geotagged photos to the web from anywhere where I can (afford to) connect to a mobile data network. See the results here.
After a pleasant week's holiday down in the South West of France, it's back to the task in hand. Technology has had a dramatic impact on the recruitment market in some respects - it's certainly a lot easier now to get to find out about opportunities through mass recruitment sites like monster, the open door … Continue reading Back to "work"