people though ‘only girls have this’ and lots of people though it wasnt even a thing. everyone stood up when asked of they had experienced what was on screen Don’t believe everything you think. your self talk is killing you! write a list of all the negatives then write the Read more…
Legos design process: how lego embraced tech. this talk is excellent – I got some lego we had to make a duck in 45 seconds – I didnt have any lego, so had to find some first! (managed to make it in 5 seconds!) 3 principles of lego intrinsic motivation Read more…
talk by split experimentleaks.com use data to drive the decisions. A/B testing, multivariant – controlled experiments reduce external influences. it can allow us to distinguish from noise and real signal. measure ‘statistically significant’ detecting something meaningful. errors: false positives + false negatives design like you are right, test like you Read more…
Im listening to a great talk about culture inside a company – aira.net defining culture: you have to address the culture and define what you want it to be, it wont happen organically. you have to have a strong feedback culture to have a good culture you need to make Read more…
Today Im in Edinburgh, at TuringFest 2019It took an age to find a space to park, so I missed the first and most of the second talks – I managed to grab 10 mins at the end of a talk to get me started
A good talk about the risks and realities that small businesses face in the cyber domain. SME are basically not doing enough and are expecting someone to do cyber for them. There was a nice breakdown of wannacry and its effects on SME in the UK, and the ‘Not Petya’ Read more…
Crypto Asset Convergence This was a really good talk – A company called New Alchemy from Seattle 4 categories of crypto currencies exist to be money utility tokens exist to access a network of value smart contracts exist to be a global compting network security tokens exist to confer ownership Read more…
Keynote Panel: what does the future hold for blockchain technology I started watching a talk about investing in ICOs and moved over to the panel on blockchain in the future – there were lots of ideas on the uses of the technology – breaking down borders, accessible transfers of verified Read more…
Interesting talk about the process of developing a blockchain app – talking about integrations with businesses legacy systems to enable the transition to the new platforms. A lot of companies using blockchain as a direct replacement for a database. The development process for building theses distributed apps is just a Read more…
Last year I went to the Glasgow real ale fest. It was so good that Im there again for Glasgow Real Ale Festival 2015 this year :D Its a nice day outside, warm and sunny, which makes a change. The beer fest is in the briggait again and again has Read more…
Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…
This will show you how to use ichat or imessage to talk to msn on osx, without using the jabber method. go to cocoon.drinkbrainjuice.com download and install their (beta) plugin open ichat > preferences > accounts click ‘add’ pick ‘MSN’ from the list enter your details! You now have MSN Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends who use yahoo messenger using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: yahoo account name: username@yahoo.com open server options done. log in and talk to Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends who use google talk / gtalk using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: google talk account name: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com open server options server: Read more…
Networking the laptop to play games with a null modem cable! now that I knew computers could talk to each other I started to find things everywhere, a few years had passed and doom was out. there was now a computer shop in my town, and I had failed at Read more…
A monochrome laptop, hooking up to a 14.4k modem, going on a bbs, learning AT commands It was nineteen ninety something before five, probably two or three. I must have been eleven or twelve years old. My dad had a monochrome laptop. 486 25 MHz, monochrome screen, 4Mb ram, 40Mb Read more…
This will show you how to talk to your friends using Facebook chat in iMessages on your mac. Facebook chat uses the xmpp protocol. This means that you can connect to Facebook chat using third party chat applications. This makes Facebook chat comparable to the way you used to connect Read more…
Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…
Migrating from hotmail to gmail. I’ve written before about how I like to keep everything in the one place – contacts, IM people, and email. Up until now I have been using various ways of checking my various email accounts – outlook, windows live mail desktop and thunderbird to name Read more…
So, what is midi, and does it always have to sound so bad? MIDI is an acronym for Musical instrument Digital Interface. It allows electronic instruments, computers and other electronic devices to communicate with each other. Devices can synchronise with each other and control each other using this standard. The Read more…