About Me
Swansea University lecturer. Web enthusiast; dabbler in software engineering and control systems; PLENK2010 ds106 and cck11 participant; EG-353 coordinator. Squirrel and meerkat.
Tag Archives: video
366 Things and a Bad Joke
I’ve just started another 366 photos project and I’ve also got a “366 days of origami” calendar. In addition, Alan Levine and Jim Groom are about to launch a “Daily Create” project. I think it’s in testing (there’s a hint … Continue reading
Google I/O 2009 – Google’s HTML 5 Work: What’s Next?
I have a lecture next week which will discuss HTML markup. I have lots of notes and examples for XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2 which I think students should read through for some deeper learning rather than be presented in … Continue reading
More on Euler
I am grateful to my friend and former Swansea colleague Dr Farzin Deravi of University of Kent at Canterbury who read my blog post on Euler’s identity (“The Most Beautiful Equation in the World”) via Facebook and told me about … Continue reading
Simon’s Cat: TV Dinner
This video, from the YouTube series “Simon’s Cat” was featured on last week’s Culture Show on BBC 2 [in the UK]. There are two others, equally great and hopefully more to come. All cat lovers will get a shiver of … Continue reading
Tagged animation, cat, video, youtube
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Open Source is Magic
As reported yesterday, I’ve been catching up with a number of presentations from the Google I/O 2008 conference. However, I just had to draw particular attention to one of the highlights which is this recording of a very entertaining presentation … Continue reading
Tagged Google I/O, my own learning, open source, video
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Things to do in Swansea when you’re not dead
Number 1: Put your new Nikon D40X into continuous shooting mode and make cheap animated movies of birds feeding and post the results to YouTube. Well why not! Selected stills at Picasa.
Tagged diy, photography, video, youtube
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Steve Yegge on JavaScript, Rails on Rhino and other things
Back in June I blogged about Steve Yegge’s port of Ruby on Rails to Rhino (the JavaScript engine for the JVM) and his claim that JavaScript was the Next Big Language (NBL). In related news, Dion Almaer has just posted … Continue reading
Tagged javascript, jvm, people, rails, video
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Inbox Zero
It’s been a while but I’m sort of back in harness after my vacation (even if actually at home in my pyjamas). One of the issues that always occurs after a period away is dealing with the email after a … Continue reading
Tagged productivity, video
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Social Networks in Plain English
Just published by Lee LeFever on the CommonCraft site is a new “paper works” video on Web 2.0. This time its social networking: which apparently is all about finding a life partner or finding a job. Since, in my case, … Continue reading
Tagged social networking, video, web2.0
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