Tag: thoughts

My thoughts on Scotland

17 September 2014

I support self determination of the people of Scotland. I think it's great that we can have an open and democratic conversation about it, in a civilised and peaceful manner. I'm delighted by the level of engagement and thoughts people have on it, north and south of the border If Scotland does become independence, I'm […]

Plans for 2013

2 February 2013

With reference to my round up of my 2012 resolutions and aims, here are some for 2013: Develop my photography skills I recently had various compliments on photos I've taken, which is always very gratefully appreciated. However, having a nice camera does not make someone a good photographer, and I need to reduce the ratio […]

How did my plans for 2012 work out?

30 December 2012

I made some plans at the start of 2012 for the year ahead and whilst I managed to somewhat take the edge of this post by posting a "final quarter review" 3/4's of the way through the year, a few things have changed since then. Since then, I've done more blogging than ever, I've wanted […]

Why do I bother writing this blog anyway? I mean who even reads it?

26 October 2012

As Clifford Stoll says in his very clever TED talk: "The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I want to do something else." As I'm not an academic, I'm not a "scientist" per se, but I do share his desire to constantly do new things – […]

New Year plans: 2012 final quarter review.

7 September 2012

At the end of 2011, I made some vague plans for 2012. Not resolutions. Nothing grandiose. But things that would probably be good ideas. Do more offbeat, adventurous, unexpected, unusual things. More travel. It largely doesn’t matter where, just more of it. Find some new ways to take myself out of my depth Ok. I'm […]

Plans for 2012

31 December 2011

At some point, I may get a chance to look back on 2011, weigh it up, work out whether it was largely good or bad. That sounds like a lot of hard work. It's almost like a history essay. Instead, I'm going to think about my plans for 2012; not "New Year's Resolutions" just some […]

What is the most useful thing you will do towards a future career when you're young?

18 May 2009

This XKCD cartoon strangely captures essence of most of my complaints with the way ICT and technical subjects are taught in schools. For me, it was a extensive number of weekends trying to make various different project work and multiple evenings getting to know the right people in the tech industry – thanks to the […]