All articles from: December, 2008

Speed Limiting in Cars

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As part one of my cam­paign to intro­duce the concept of actu­ally think­ing to UK media, pun­dits and gov­ern­ment, I’m cov­er­ing the nasty little idea of auto­matic speed lim­iters being intro­duced to cars — so that people can, basic­ally, stop think­ing about the speed they drive at. That’ll work…

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About the Campaign for Thinking

Intro­du­cing my per­sonal, one man mini-crusade — the Cam­paign for Think­ing. It’s going to be a scattered stream of con­scious­ness thing. It might be good ther­apy for me. Who knows?

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Wardrobe For Sale

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Yes really — feel the excite­ment of this slim­line, 200×100×40 ward­robe. Oooh!

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Data Visualisation — and Me

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I’ve always loved charts.

Yes. I know.

But well drawn charts are always fas­cin­at­ing. Now, com­bine a chart with what is some­times my favour­ite sub­ject, me, and maybe I could do something?

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Barcamp Liverpool 2008

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I atten­ded Bar­camp Liv­er­pool 2008 to join fel­low geeks in a spot of tech­no­logy appre­ci­ation at this ‘uncon­fer­ence’ at the CUC. Great venue, and great to be able to give an ad-hoc present­a­tion on Word­Press for News Sites in the Café

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Butterflies in Liverpool

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Some­times you see some­thing so cute, cut­ting through the dreary, cold wet­ness, that you have to stop and take a few quick snaps.  There was noth­ing to say who did it, or why — but this is the kind of art I appre­ci­ate some­times.  I hope it lasts.

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Now That’s Clever… The Riddle on an Oscilloscope

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Ok — so I admit — I’m not only impressed by anim­a­tion, I’m impressed by tech toys. And oscil­lo­scopes have always been a source of fas­cin­a­tion to geeks. Throw in a bit of nos­tal­gia and look what I find…

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Spectacu.la, the New Design, and Why I’ve Been So Quiet…

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Some of you may have noticed that this blog hasn’t been updated prop­erly of late. Not much fresh con­tent, no motor­s­port reports… in fact, not much at all. Here’s why…

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