Just a quick post today. I wanted to share an interesting video with you all. It’s a TED talk by the executive director of the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin. Apparently it’s been out for a while, the YouTube post says…
As some of you will know I play guitar and sing in Liverpool rock band 20lb Sounds. I have done for about 2 and a half years now. In that time we’ve done some really good gigs, written some good…
Hello all, just a quick video post today. A little while ago I talked about a hidden Easter Egg sequence I’d found in the popular blogging platform WordPress. I’m sure I’m not the first to find this and post about…
Ahoy hoy! Hope you’re all doing well. Just wanted to share this video. It’s an interview with good friends of Rathole Radio the “mostly Irish” band I Am Not Lefthanded, Daniel discusses crowd funding and how it’s worked for them.…
Way back in the mists of time, a legend was forged… <cue the smoke machine>… ok it was only August but come on, I’m trying to be dramatic here! We held an event called OggCamp12 in Liverpool on August 18th…
Howdy, I figured I’d start cross posting some of the podcasts I host here in case you’re interested. On Wednesday Randal Schwartz and I had a great chat with Dr Flavio Villanustre of HPCC Systems. It mostly concerned “big data”…
Hello everyone, Well now, it’s been a very long time hasn’t it? In the last month or two life has completely overtaken me and I’ve neglected the blog because of it. OggCamp was a pretty time consuming affair for me but…
Hello again, time for another live song. This week it’s a Neil Young tune called “The Stringman” which I’ve arranged for guitar. Usually he plays it on the piano. There’s a good version on his MTV Unplugged album which you…
Hello all, I realise activity has been a bit slow on the blog lately but I aim to fix that soon (don’t I always). I have some ideas for interesting little techy articles to come. In the meantime I hope…
Greetings once again one and all. Here’s a special Father’s Day live song for you all. It’s June 17th and that’s Father’s Day in the UK so I’d like to dedicate this to my Dad. I searched around online all…
