Archive for November, 2010

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

Giving UK Technology an ARM UP

[and on the BBC website at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11821504 ] During the 1980’s I worked at Acorn Computers in Cambridge, helping to develop the in-house engineering systems that were used by designers to create computers like the Archimedes, the popular successor to the BBC Microcomputer that had made Acorn’s name during the BBC Computer Literacy project. The [...]

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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Few things finer than heading to the station in a London Cab- sadly this one not driven by @jackabnory :-(

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Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Life as a tech journalist can be hard… Hence the need to head to the Oxford Retreat.

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Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Walk into to the biz school to find @biz and @ruskin147 – on air now

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Sunday, November 21st, 2010

Feeling threatened?

The good people at Sense About Science have put together a useful guide for anyone whose online activities result in the threat – or reality – of legal action. As they put it: .’if anyone receives a threatening letter we want them to be able to take a deep breath and feel that the guide [...]

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Saturday, November 20th, 2010

Heading off back to Cambridge after exellent time at #encountersSFF – and with all at @wshed !

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Friday, November 19th, 2010

Wonderful session from Andy Serkis at @wshed for #encountersSFF – thoughtful and bearded :-)

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Friday, November 19th, 2010

Off to Bristol with the boy for Encounters. “I’ve never been up at 7 o’clock… What happens?!”

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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

And we’re off at #abawards with Kate Mosse – while @edvaizey waits in the wings…

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Thursday, November 18th, 2010

In Bradford for high powered meeting at Nat Media Museum… But first, there are aliens for @tonyageh to defeat

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