Hail fellow.
Three years into my job at Edinburgh Napier Uni and I've managed to work through almost fifty business cards. I'm meeting nearly 1.4 people a month it seems, although that average will come down once relatives are taken out.*Cards come in packs of...
Star Man: now with moving pictures.
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Star Man: climbing to space during Fringe 2010.
Bringing shiny spacesuits to the Edinburgh Fringe has surely been done before - Macbeth set on the International Space Station perhaps - but surely none has been put through its paces quite so thoroughly as James Baker's. Here are photos from the ...
Travelogue 12: 'sheeps that pass in the night 02.11.02'
Enjoying the lengthening days of south eastern Australia in the southern spring was a glorious, laid back rural experience. I spent time on two farms: each of them suffering in the drought, one of them seemingly with greater success though as the ...
Travelogue 11: 'green 01.10.02'
On my way back to Australia following a northern summer in Edinburgh I spent a week in Bali. This was before the bombing (though only by about three weeks, and I spent in an evening in the bar which suffered most damage) so a snapshot of life on t...
In house catering.
As part of my drive to get as much PhD thinking and planning done before The Return of Teaching in September I had a couple of really rewarding and interesting meetings with colleagues this week. The general topic was how could I set up a PhD at E...
Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief
via techcrunch.com Follow the TechCrunch link to a relatively short piece on the uses of Ushahidi and connected technologies in crisis and disaster relief. Among the points to note are that this is from the technology-focused media, that it's writ...
A 'mixed' day at the Edinburgh festival.
A breakfast event, at 8:30am, was an earlier start than I've been used to this summer. It kicked off a varied day, although it's only 6:00pm just now and the final chapters have yet to be written. So to a quick run down... Festivals Edinburgh brea...
Mark Watson's roaming Edinburgh book launch for 'Eleven' #watsonbooklaunch
If the Edinburgh International Book Festival wants a way to instil a bit of danger into its programme Mark Watson can provide a template: guerilla book launches don't come any more subversive, claiming the streets for literature and prose, plot an...
West Highland Way photos II
I'm still just as stoked that I walked so much of the West Highland Way - a couple of weeks' distance has not quelled my enthusiasm. Here is a selection of shots taken with Bob's camera (then compressed onto Facebook and extracted by me), conveyin...