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bloody Education bloody Technology
Hey! It’s the inter-sessional break! You know, that period of about 5 weeks which looks like you are going to get so much done while you’re not teaching, only to…
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Walking Through the Biggest Book
I recently attended a lecture by Professor Lewis Lancaster in which he described his collaboration with what he calls ‘Long Data’. Best if I first quote from a 2011 paper…
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Down With This Sort Of Thing
Pause a moment: It’s a magazine that’s apparently been missing in a warehouse since 1985. On an iPad. OMD is on the cover. OK, alright, fine. I’ve had my say…
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David Bowie
Every time I glance at the cover of The Next Day, a sense of relief and happiness descends on me. I am found, and set square on the earth. I…
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VIVID and Kraftwerk Deserve Each Other
I saw Kraftwerk play live in 1981. It was wonderful. They brought their whole opera stage with them; all those green/yellow Wagnerian boxes and knobs and neon tubes. They seemed…
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Shaggy Squid Story
So anyway, the other night was the peak night for my head cold. You know that night? The one where the fever is high, and you ache and you know…
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HH: Level one tape recorders and physics testing
Maybe other people are super geniuses or something but it’s unbelievable the amount of trouble that goes getting a game to run – let alone be enjoyable…Spent all of today…
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Level One is working
Last night I built both a PC executable and web applet of level one, which actually works. The large globe in the centre of the room rotates and broadcasts time…