Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎶🎻 | Continue reading
Post St. Patrick’s Day recovery session 🎻🎶☘️ | Continue reading
First session of the day ☘️🎶 | Continue reading
Here’s how the St. Patrick’s Day sessions are shaping up in Brighton: 2:30-4:30 The Fiddler’s Elbow 4-6 The Bugle 5-7 The Lord Nelson 6-8 The Dover Castle 8-10 The Jolly Brewer 10-? ??? | Continue reading
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir! I’m off to play a rake of tunes… | Continue reading
I presume that “ChatGPT” isn’t supposed to be said as one word—“chatgipit”—but rather the capital letters should be spelled out. So it’s pronounced “See Hat Jee Pee Tee.” | Continue reading
Reading The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier by Bruce Sterling. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading
I know I’m being tease, doling out these UX London speaker announcements in batches rather than one big reveal. Indulge me in my suspense-ratcheting behaviour. Today I’d like to unveil three speakers whose surnames start with the letter H… Stephen Hay, Creative Director at Rabob … | Continue reading
My brother is competing in the Barkley Marathons. Again. https://runningmagazine.ca/trail-running/whos-who-at-the-barkley-marathons-2023/ Last time he broke his collarbone on the second loop. #bm100 | Continue reading
The last talk at the last dConstruct was by local clever clogs Anil Seth. It was called Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality. It’s well worth a listen. Anil covers a lot of the same ground in his excellent book, Being You. He describes a model of consciousness that inve … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Sunday session 🎻🎻 | Continue reading
Happy birthday to Information Management: A Proposal by Tim Berners-Lee https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html | Continue reading
Checked in at Pulpeira de Melide. Clams, mackerel, tomatoes and tortilla — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Mercado Muncipal de San Agustín. Exploring the market — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Vermutería Martinez. Vermut — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at O Viñedo de Tito. Scallops and razor clams — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at O Merendeiro. Pulpo! 🐙 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jamón Jamón. Jamón! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at La Bombilla. Croqueta y cerveza 🍺 — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Vita K Galera 13. Pimentos de padron y Albariño — with Jessica | Continue reading
Strolling along the beach in A Coruña. | Continue reading
Social networks like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter that present a so-called algorithmic feed are really providing little more than continuous partial shadowbanning. | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎻🎻🎶 | Continue reading
I tried watching a classic Western this weekend, How The West Was Won. I did not make it far. Let’s just say that in the first few minutes, the Spencer Tracy voiceover that accompanies the sweeping vistas sets out an attitude toward the indigenous population that would not fly to … | Continue reading
We use metaphors all the time. To quote George Lakoff, we live by them. We use analogies some of the time. They’re particularly useful when we’re wrapping our heads around something new. By comparing something novel to something familiar, we can make a shortcut to comprehension, … | Continue reading
Checked in at The Bugle Inn. Fiddletastic Sunday session 🎻🎻🎶 | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Out with the Clearleft crew in a pub having a retro games night… Them: “Want to play Tekken? Or is it Tekken 2?” Me: “As long it stars Liam Neeson, that’s all that matters!” | Continue reading
I am positively giddy with excitement to tell you about some more speakers you can look forward to at UX London 2023: Stacey Mendez, Product and Experience Designer, Hannah Smith, Director of Operations at the Green Web Foundation, Vitaly Friedman, Creative Lead at Smashing Maga … | Continue reading
Reading Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. | Continue reading
Spent the weekend in Belfast workshopping bouzouki and mandolin with Cathal Ó Curráin — thoroughly enjoyable! | Continue reading
Checked in at The Sunflower. One last session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The John Hewitt. Next session! — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Duke of York. Flutetastic session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Established Coffee. Birthday breakfast — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Deer’s Head. Last session of the night (with Sorscha Costello and Mary McNamarra) — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The John Hewitt. Second session of the evening — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Duke of York. First session of the festival — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at The Lord Nelson Inn. Thursday night session — with Jessica | Continue reading
Checked in at Jolly Brewer. Wednesday night session 🎶🎻🎻🎻🎶 — with Jessica | Continue reading