If Saul Bass had designed the Star Wars credits: http://tinyurl.com/3b7lbz. Very nice. #
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Great day at Barcamp Manchester
Barcamp Manchester, held yesterday at the MEN Media HQ, was great and made it clear to me once again that there’s a great web community up here in the North. A very exciting place to be at the moment, and I’m convinced things here will only get better. Barcamps are always an opportunity to meet …
Daniel Morris: UK Teens & the Web at Barcamp Manchester
Dan Morris’ session on UK Teens & the Web was one of my favourites of the day, which you can see from my frantically scribbled notes (below). Dan’s working for a semi-autonomous BBC unit which produces online content for teenagers, and had some really interesting insights to share from his experience and some research they’d …
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BarCamp Manchester. Why would you not. # Travel, is that not the first axis. Let’t join in. (Must not twitter when inebriated. -Ed)
Good turn out for the first BarCamp Manchester. Looking forward to the day ahead. # Great talk from Dan Morris on the BBC’s work with teens. Waiting nervously for my slot on WordPress now. # BarCamp Manchester has decamped to the bar to disintegrate. Well done to Paul Robinson for pulling and holding the day …
After leaving it til the last minute, I’m resurrecting my WordPress talk for Barcamp. Let’s see if I can manage a working laptop this time! #
Quick thoughts for 2008-02-27 (via Twitter)
Woken by the earthquake last night, very confused. # Coverflow is what was missing for my photo management on OSX; now I can eschew photo management software and keep them in organised folders. #
Quick thoughts for 2008-02-26 (via Twitter)
That’s quite neat: if you hold onto an application by it’s top bar then use a Spaces hotkey, you can easily move it between virtual desktops #
Quick thoughts for 2008-02-25 (via Twitter)
There seems to be a problem with MacFUSE/SSHFS such that when you mount a drive it doesn’t show up in the sidebar. It is there in /Volumes/ # It’s a shame that the Time Machine icon in the menubar doesn’t dim when Time Machine is disabled. Seems the obvious thing to do. #
Quick thoughts for 2008-02-23 (via Twitter)
Having the path to the current folder shown at the bottom of Finder is useful. I have no idea why it hadn’t been included before. # Having that ridiculously noisy LaCie Quadra drive as my TimeMachine backup drive is going to drive me insane. # Back in render time hell. Everything is sooooo slooooooow… .. …
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