I’m currently doing a PhD at the University of Bolton; part of the process is fill in what the University calls Mansubs. Mansubs are basically there to make you think about what it is you are doing and to give the University some confidence you can do it. I’ve recently Read more…
Finally managed to hook my Meag Drove up to my recording software: Here is the compulsory gif and the know your meme page Sanic.
I’ve been playing with the Twitter API to see how easy it is to take stats about event backchat on Twitter. While playing with the API I noticed it was very easy to get data out which at first made me wonder why anybody even bothers with Twubs style tools, Read more…
Recently I have been playing with the Twitter API, to get my head around how it works and what is/isn’t possible. Just to get my head going I have been looking at the ways in which UK Universities pimp themselves on Twitter. I haven’t really thought through my dataset or Read more…
Quite often I have a dataframe in R with lots of columns with one of the columns being the year. I then want to pick another column and make averages for each year and plot it to show how things have changed over time. I know this is really easy Read more…
Old games can be really awesome. What I like about many old games is just how different they are. Perhaps in a way similar to indie games now they tried something new and weren’t afraid to fail. Often I find the games aren’t as balanced from years of the genre Read more…
Yesterday I was having a little worry around communication methods and the effect of such controlling society and education. While I was worrying about being trapped in the games I play with technology; one person seriously lost their game, and it wasn’t even by somebody crashing Twitter with a photo Read more…
Next week is open education week. I can see signs of people gearing up do things in the spirit of open education and in the spirit of openness I’m going to post in the wrong week. A friend of mine while getting ready for some work during said week posted Read more…
If you play games on your Android device or iPhone you may have noticed that most of the games are pitched as “free to play”. While they might be free to start playing, they still make a lot of money. In fact, when I had a look at the ‘Top Read more…
Over the last few days a social experiment took place. Tech blogger Andy Baio called it the “most wonderful thing online now”, it shot to the top of BBC and The Guardians most read articles, there is even an XKCD comic about. Meanwhile I’m messing around with Twitter thinking about Read more…
