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OGN8 has become the musical OGN

jp.stacey 8 August 2008
Oxford Geek Nights #8: Rockin' Rabbit. Because home socializing is killing public speaking.

Without trying particularly hard, I seem to have turned OGN8 into Online Music OGN. All right, I did book Ben Walker, geek troubadour to do a turn prior to the speakers.

Wake up, freak out, then get a grip

jp.stacey 7 October 2008
If nothing else, worth watching for the polar bear.

Here's a short, striking, and oddly cute film about why you should care about taking urgent action to prevent climate change, and how small increases in temperature can lead to lifestyle-shattering, and life-endangering, changes in the world's ecosystem:

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Coalfinger, wah waah waaaah

jp.stacey 30 October 2008
He's the man, the man with the touch of coal: and the voice of Brian Blessed.

From Greenpeace comes Coalfinger, the dangerous megalomaniac trying to open coal-fired power stations across the world:

BBC Oxford: Geek Night

jp.stacey 20 January 2009
And then they go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like "why don't we get that Geek Evenings fellow on next week?"

With any luck I'll be talking to Danny and Lou on BBC Oxford tomorrow at half noon, about the phenomenon that is Oxford Geek Nights. It's all rather good timing in one sense, given that OGN10 is happening tomorrow evening, but terrible timing in another sense, given that I have to get ready for OGN10 happening tomorrow evening.

All of this is subject to change, of course.

JRF site on Comment is Free, just about

jp.stacey 19 February 2009
Mum always said I'd appear on the telly one day. Well, she was sort of right.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is quoted by the mainstream media all the time, such is the impact of the studies and publications it funds, produces and reports on.

For all your idiomatic English needs

jp.stacey 22 February 2009
If your copy, rewritten and redrafted with a broad audience in mind, no longer engages: scrap it, and write as if to a respected, friendly colleague.

Some six months ago I received a newsletter from a respected company, active in open source, and providing graded services including a reliable free one. However, the first paragraph of that newsletter (ostensibly written by the CEO) said:

We hope you are enjoying the — service for all your — needs. We are passionate about our customer promise: to provide the best online — solution in the market with a focus on ease of use, personalization, security, and privacy.

Form and content at Oxford Geek Night #13

jp.stacey 7 June 2009
The future of textual rendering and data visualizations at OGN13.

Those of you who subscribe to the Oxford Geek Nights Google group hopefully need no reminder that Oxford Geek Night 13 is on Wednesday 15 July.

Oxford Geek Night 13 sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform

jp.stacey 17 June 2009
You heard it here second, probably; immediately after on the mailing list.

Wow. Well, now it's out in the open and I can tell you all. Oxford Geek Night 13 on Wednesday 15 July will be co-sponsored by the Guardian Open Platform.

The Guardian's Open Platform and Datastore work has really put them at the forefront of modern media.

Save BBC 6Music and Asian Network

jp.stacey 2 March 2010

It's our BBC. It's your BBC. Tell the Trust what you want.

Everyone in a particular demographic will now know that the BBC director general, Mark Thompson, has announced a plan to close two of the most Reithian of radio stations, 6Music and the Asian Network. If you're up in arms about these closures, you can still do something about it.