Articles from September 2009



Around and about

A big catch-up post on what I’ve been up to: Thursday the 17th  we held the Knowledge Hub advisory group which you can read all about here. Friday the 18th  saw me at the IDeA’s Community of Practice Facilitator event.  The CoP facilitators that I see on a regular basis are my own colleagues (no [...]

Catching some Zs

Yesterday my most viewed picture on Flickr was “Polish Food”.  This picture was taken three years ago at a restaurant called Daquise which is close to the South Kensington Underground Station.  I’d seen the restaurant there on a number of occasions and just assumed it was French, it sounds French, right? Simon and I had [...]

Unsportsmanlike conduct

When my brother and I were in Budapest in the summer of 2005 I got an email telling me that a high school friend Terry Adams had died. I told my brother and he said “Terry thought a lot of you. Every time I saw him he asked about you.” For the whole time that [...]

Last week's links

Just a few of the things I found interesting on the web last week. Data cnewmark: Serious civics apps a big deal in San Francisco Describing how the Mayor of San Francisco is getting useful info to citizens in useful applications just by making data more open. Do you know where your postboxes are? Free [...]

Memento Mori

While I was on maternity leave, I went into the nearby cemetery almost every day.  Pushing the stroller over the bumpy roads seemed to calm the boy and at least we got out.   I always took my camera and was ever on the lookout for interesting floral tributes.  Flower arrangements heavily reliant on Oasis foam [...]

Open Day

As we snake our way through one of the toniest neighbourhoods in London in a shortcut we use to get to Richmond Park, we pass a lovely Church of England churchyard.  Picturesque steeple, a nursery, and an impressive looking fellowship hall or venue or whatever they call it, built of stacked stone and glass and [...]

Yesterday's Top Pic: Big Antler Deer

My most viewed picture on Flickr yesterday was Big Antler Deer.  This was taken over three years ago with my first digital camera – a little Pentax Optio with shockingly low megapixels.   As you can see, not so good for the wildlife pictures.  But it did amazing floral macros. I was able to get amazingly [...]

Update on the Capital Fund

The advice in this blog post has been superceded by this one from 2 December OK, first off – everything I wrote before about Capital Fund still stands.   If you want to use the Capital Fund for a social media project read that post. Phase 2 Some of you may have seen the words Phase [...]

Are you laughing now?

I hope we’re still laughing in our orange on Sunday morning. Dreading the process of trying to figure out how to watch the Tennessee-Florida game on Internet tv (it’s always a trauma, it changes every football season, and I always start too late) and sadly, I’m kinda dreading what the game will reveal about this [...]

links for 2009-09-17

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