I recently registered a nice short domain name for someone. I had a choice of registrars. One was my usual domain registrar, and another was a local Isle of Man company who were significantly cheaper. I decided to buy local (and save money!) thinking that I was doing the right thing of supporting a business […]
This was my third OggCamp, and I was able to make a full weekend visit to Manchester. Most of my best learning at OggCamps tends to be around what happens outside the scheduled stuff, so it was good to have the time to mingle in the evenings and discuss things over beer. Although I already […]
I last attended OggCamp in Liverpool in 2015 and had a great time. There wasn’t one in 2016, and in 2017 it was in the wrong part of the UK for the gods of time & space to allow. I did though make it to OggCamp 2018 in Sheffield, so here’s some of the things […]
I went along to the Open Data Camp in Douglas. Here’s some of the things I learned about: Oh, and beer tastes better when someone else pays!
I took the boat from the Isle of Man to Liverpool for the day, to visit Makefest in Liverpool. This was a great day out, and I saw loads of good things. The highlights were: I found some nice food and real ale in a pub later in the afternoon, and the sea was flat […]
When I joined Twitter in 2009, it was a place to find interesting people sharing interesting ideas and learning from one another. You could ask questions on very technical topics, and people would take the time to reply in detailed and thoughtful ways. Over time, more and more people joined and the conversations grew. Twitter […]
During a recent holiday in England, I spent a few days in a location without any links to the internet at all. No mobile phone signal, no Wi-Fi hotspots. Nothing. It was interesting to see the impact this had. There were countless times when I wanted to check something on a map. Or the opening […]
I attended my first ever OggCamp on the weekend of 31st October / 1st November. Having never been to any kind of “unconference” before, I didn’t know quite what to expect. So here’s a few thoughts on what I learned: Free culture and free software types are a friendly bunch. This happened even before I […]