R.I.P. Leo - 8.30AM, 22.3.2008
Our cat, Leo, who travelled with us all the way from Australia, died this morning having struggled with FIV (the feline version of HIV) for the last year. For …
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20,000 Processing Particles
I’ve played with Processing a fair bit over the years, but never really got stuck into anything solid - most of my time has been spent fixing up my …
Break-time at Playpen
I’m going to take a few days off for a break, so I probably won’t be blogging for a couple of weeks. But stay tuned, there is much more to come as …
Interview on WorldChanging
A quick pointer to an interview about the Creative Waves VIP Project with Rick Bennett and I on the very excellent WorldChanging.com. If you’ve been …
Goodbye Lilian
It’s not been an easy year for deaths in the family. Although I rarely post personal things on my blog, for some reason - at least to me - it feels like …
Macbook or Macbook Pro?
or I’m about to upgrade machines and it’s time to go Macbook or Macbook Pro (the 15"). It wouldn’t be a primary design machine, so the …
Low tech accidents
Whilst looking through some old archives of work (and also the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive) I re-found a gif that I made for my very first …
Re-imagining Higher Education
Recently I have been giving much thought to the structure and issues that most of us in Higher Education have been struggling with for several years. There are …
The Play Ethic and Sustainability
For a very long time now (since 2005 in fact), Pat Kane’s book, The Play Ethic has been on my Amazon Wishlist (hint, hint) along with several other books …
Fleabilly strikes again
Okay, so a pure vanity post here. A couple of wonderful photos from Fleabilly a.k.a Ray Lewis of me in London. Don’t ask about the mask. It was just lying …
New theme
It’s about time I had a new theme I felt. Noodling around with themes is a great way to fritter away real working time. As usual I haven’t had time …
Some thoughts about life as a creative individual
This is a piece I wrote and read out in a lecture a couple of years ago, just before I left my teaching job to move back to Germany. Lots of students have often …
Me in Suffolk care of Fleabilly
Suffolk Originally uploaded by fleabilly. A wonderful, weird shot of me taking a photo at my parents’ place in Suffolk thanks to the ever-brilliant Ray …
Our VW Polo for sale!
I don’t normally use my blog for my daily personal stuff as I try to stick to the themes of play, online culture, technology and writing. But we’re …
Less Work, More Play - presentation at Neue-Digitale
I’ve just had a very enjoyable afternoon at Neue-Digitale in Frankfurt interviewing co-founder, Olaf Czeschner, for Desktop but also giving a presentation …
Playing Superman
So, did my second skydive today and it was even better than the one a few years ago. This time I actually remember the first ten seconds - check out the vein on …