If you haven’t heard about Mozillas Open Badge Initiative, a great explanation and round up lives on Rowins blog. As Rowin points out that badges ‘draw upon widespread use of badges and achievements in gaming‘ and as somebody who has many badges and achievements in various game systems I can’t Read more…
I think we all get that feeling that the rest of the world has gone completely mad. When we are sitting in meetings listening to the boss tell us he’s installing artificial darkness generators to combat the automatic lights. I find that in my work life I often think to Read more…
For as long as I have been a web developer with CETIS we have relied on analysing server logs to give an indication of traffic sources and visitor trends. This approach existed long before I joined CETIS and seemed like a logical way of doing things, CETIS has had many Read more…
Some grouchy early morning thoughts in note form on badges while I wait for a server to install. Its taken me a while to get my head around the idea of badges. A fantastic round-up that got me thinking about them lives here, I still really don’t know what to say Read more…
Sheila from CETIS recently blogged about a social media event and I feel some of the themes in her post are closely related to some experiences I have had this week while exploring the landscape for my PhD and conversations I’ve had with MWJ. I’m interested around the following thoughts Read more…
I’ve started writing a Schematron ruleset that can be used to validate your own XCRI-CAP document so that you can get something that looks like this. You can grab my work so far from google code. So far the ruleset only checks the core elements but I intend to work Read more…
When you email your favorite artists you don’t always expect a response. I had emailed Tarn Adams asking him his thoughts on ABM and how he modeled the interactions of his Dwarfs, I was lucky enough to get a reply! Tarn told me he was not aware of what was Read more…
I’m taking a break from work – and also blogotron so I guess its a good time for a brain dump before I go. I’ve become quite interested in path finding (something that has intrigued me since Peter Lager wrote a program to prove that the hobbits took the long route Read more…
Although being up at night with a tummy bug is no fun, it does mean I seem to get things done.. maybe to keep my mind off things! Here is the latest in my agent world.. we now have agents that can be added and explore the little world they Read more…
I’ve become interested in attachment/imprinting/steering through my playing with unity. I’ll save writing about them for a future post.. but… One thing I have noticed is that by posting every little achievement I make in unity as a video on blogotron spurs me on to do more. I think that it helps with problems Read more…
