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• Plazza de Toros

  27 August 06 • 0 comment

  The guidebook said that a Bullfight always starts on time, so with only a few moments to go before the appointed start, we were surprised to find the ring empty, and most of the audience seating empty. The Marbella Bullring is, like most bullrings, reminiscent of a roman amphitheatre, a circular arena in the middle [...]

• I don’t want to think in just one domain

  6 August 06 • 4 comments

  I have a passion for combining ideas. Towards the end of my PhD I started to realise that what I had done, at least in my own mind, could be explained by talking about different “traditional” subjects. I had several different areas of computer science (performance prediction, scheduling, security, and a few others), economics, philosophy, [...]

• It’s hot enough to fry an egg over here

  29 July 06 • 0 comment

  

  I’ve often heard people use expression like “its hot enough to fry an egg”, but never really quite believed it to be true. It would however seem that I was wrong! Look at this picture from the BBC’s In-Pictures series taken last Weds (currently the hottest day of the millenium) Technorati Tags: heat wave, egg, [...]

• How happiness relates to my PhD topic…

  28 July 06 • 1 comment

  In my thesis I wrote that happiness cannot be measured. That claims such as you are twice as happy in one state as another are fundamentally not meaningful – how do you assign such specific, mathematical values to happiness. While I wrote this, I did not invent it. It was strongly believed by Arrow, who [...]

• Dancing with Honour(s)

  22 July 06 • 0 comment

  Stupidly I never took in a stamped addressed envelop when I went in to do my dance exam last month. So as a result, I didn’t get my results nicely posted to me by my teacher, instead, she just held onto them until I could go in and pick them up. Would be great but [...]

• WSG London Meetup

  16 July 06 • 4 comments

  The first meet up of the WSG (Web Standards Group) in London was a big sucess. Though there were a few small organisaitonal issues. Well, one; The address given was not really that helpful in finding the lecture theatre. But most of the attendees overcame this and got to the room on time. It was [...]

• Agile Enjoyment

  6 July 06 • 0 comment

  As most of the people I talk to on a day to day basis are probably fed-up of hearing about, i’m very keen on this whole  Agile Programming thing thats doing the rounds at the moment. I think it has some problems, mainly when it comes to developing usable software, but on the whole, its [...]

• Working across boundaries

  24 June 06 • 0 comment

  Darek Powazek says in his recent article : Calling All Designers: Learn to Write! It may be fashionable to say “markets are conversations” or “design is about communicating ideas,” but how can that be true if the designers aren’t working with, or actually writing, the text? The whole article strikes me as part of the [...]

• WebAbacus 5.1 is accessable

  22 June 06 • 0 comment

  We got some good PR coverage today for the upcoming release of WebAbacus 5.1. One of several major improvments in 5.1 over 5.0 is that we have added an accessability interface, conforming to the WAI’s AA standard. This brings the product up to standard in terms of inclusive design, meaning that more people can use [...]

• Search Traffic

  3 June 06 • 0 comment

  One of the things I have discovered as a result of working in web analytics, and playing with analysing my own site is that the search terms that people use to find my site are not what I would have expected. Top of the list (in various forms) are: • Rails Migration • Maven2 Internal [...]

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