Oxford Geek Night #6: Web2.0 meets education and academia April 16th, 2008
Rounded corners are all very well, but on their own they won’t help educate the next generation about anything except CSS hacks.
With apologies to Hanlon April 7th, 2008
“Never attribute to malware that which can be adequately explained by stupidware.”
Deserving of a serious LAMPing March 31st, 2008
Reinventing primary keys, one horrifying integrity error at a time.
Orl korrect at OKCon March 16th, 2008
Openness is about more than availability: it’s about offering something the way you’d offfer a guest your tray of Ferrero Rocher.
Open Knowledge Conference: OKCon, Saturday 15 March March 6th, 2008
If you’re going to a conference on open knowledge, it’s only fair you tell everyone that.
For your diaries: sixth and seventh Oxford Geek Nights February 15th, 2008
In the wake of the most recent geek night, we’ve just added Upcoming entries for Oxford Geek Night #6 and Oxford Geek Night #7. Maybe when we reach some milestone like #10 we can think of better names for the events.
We should have something on the “official” website soon, although that currently takes a bit [...]
In which I put OGN5 to bed, and hope to do the same to myself later February 7th, 2008
Now that the shine is off my memories of OGN5—not least by a leak of an upcoming post elsewhere on this blog owing to a keyfumble—I can nonetheless look back on a success. From the point of view of all the guests it was one sort of a success: the speakers were wonderfully engaging; contributions [...]
Oxford Geek Night #5: you do the maths January 30th, 2008
I don’t know how well this reflects on me.
As I was wondering idly when the delivery would arrive containing OGN5’s book lottery giveaways (thanks again, Friends of ED!) I started making a note of calendar dates for different bits of OGN organisation. I was working with Trac milestones at the time, so they were all [...]
FixMySpine January 18th, 2008
FixMyStreet is getting some great press, this time a Guardian article comparing it favourably to Facebook. We were lucky to have Tom Steinberg at the fourth Oxford Geek Night, and his plucky lieutenant Matthew Somerville (I may get in trouble for that) back at the third OGN. They’re both fascinating speakers (and I still turn [...]