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May
29th
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My very first iPhone app (from a tutorial) in HTML5 wrapped up with PhoneView on Gareth’s (Snow Leopard) Mac… click to play :-)

My very first iPhone app (from a tutorial) in HTML5 wrapped up with PhoneView on Gareth’s (Snow Leopard) Mac… click to play :-)

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Looks like PhoneView and HTML5 is the way for us to go with a phone app for Greenview - a project to show the energy use of university buildings…

Oct
5th
Tue
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A foxglove went a bit creative in the garden, and this was the result. Nice work, foxglove, nice work!

A foxglove went a bit creative in the garden, and this was the result. Nice work, foxglove, nice work!

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.turquoise { color: #139383 }

This morning, I awoke with a hex colour on my mind - #139383 - for no reason I can discover.

Aug
20th
Fri
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Usability lab fail (real conversation)

  • Tester 1: Do you know where usability lab is?
  • Tester 2: Haha! That's funny! I mean, isn't it supposed to be easily navigable?
  • Tester 1: Absolutely! Usability fail!
Aug
16th
Mon
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every boat is copied from another boat… it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others
— Alain, 1908 (Quoted in Wild and Domesticated Religions: How the Machinery of Religion Evolved, Lecture by Daniel Dennett, Santa Fe Institute, 16 March 2010
May
29th
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artists are experts in uncertainty
— Tom Morris, National Theatre (BBC Radio 4, November 2009)
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Pure sea and sky in north Norfolk

Pure sea and sky in north Norfolk

Dec
8th
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Dream of an earth pig

It is a nondescript street. An animal approaches me steadily, until it is so close I recognise it as a giant anteater (or very large aardvark) with lush brown fur. It seems happy and romps around me like a puppy. I think to myself ‘what an amazing sense of smell!’

Nov
2nd
Mon
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Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0: "The most typical mistake is to model emotions as a small number of intense states such as anger, fear, joy, and sadness"