By tim, on May 9th, 2010 at 6:54 pm Much against my better judgement, I was persuaded to take a trip to the cinema this afternoon to see Iron Man 2. I was obviously at a disadvantage, having not seen Iron Man (1), but it had a plot that made no sense whatsoever and had no characters in it that were even slightly likeable. The action was so obviously faked through the over-use of CGI that it fooled no-one over five years old – a shame really as the BBFC certificate is a 12A. Even Gwyneth Paltrow and Scarlett Johansson couldn’t rescue it with their virtuoso performances in pouting.
. . . → Read More: Iron Man 2 – what was all that about then?
By tim, on March 23rd, 2010 at 7:01 pm One of the stories I like to tell about working in the software industry is from the dot-com bubble. At the time, I was working for a company selling web content management software.
On one occasion, we had a day-long meeting with a dozen or so business people from a potential client. The salesperson and I started at around 10am, kicking off with a demonstration of the software to show how you could publish news articles and other content to your website and how you put that content through an approval process before it went live. All without having to . . . → Read More: DD303 – Week 8: Context is everything
By tim, on March 14th, 2010 at 4:54 pm I’m still looking for the photographs of the Warwick University Rent Strike of 1983. I’ve not managed to find them yet, as it involves going through a cabinet in a cupboard in my younger daughter’s bedroom to find them, which first of all involves tunneling through the masses of teenage detritus she keeps in what we laughingly term a bedroom. You can rarely see the bed (or the floor.)
But I did find these photographs, which are interesting historical documents in their own right. (OK, they’re interesting to me, and me only, probably.) They show the middle office of the . . . → Read More: PAFEC – August 1991
By tim, on January 23rd, 2010 at 8:56 pm I got started on TMA01 today and after figuring out what it was all about (I hope), worked my way through the assignment booklet sections on using E-Prime. I thought it seemed remarkably straightforward and it’s nice that we get 40% of our marks on this first TMA simply for producing a working experiment with decent instructions!
It probably took me a couple of hours to create something I was happy with and understood, so I’ve now got plenty of time left for writing the experiment up this week. That’s good, because it means I’m on track time-wise and I . . . → Read More: DD303 – Week 3: playing about with E-Prime
By tim, on November 23rd, 2009 at 8:55 pm I posted too soon yesterday. Tucked away in the OUSA DD303 conference, neatly placed under a folder called useful stuff is a wealth of mind-maps and notes created since 2005 by previous students! I was particularly taken by a set of mind-maps created by Glynis Freeman, partly because they give some idea of the scope of the course and partly because despite my best efforts, I can’t create mind-maps myself (though I do find other people’s efforts useful).
I’ve downloaded the things that I think may be of use to me already, because of the impending move by the OU . . . → Read More: DD303, Moodle and OUSA
By tim, on June 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm Cardiff Central station must have been designed by C programmers – it has a platform 0!
It also has the loudest and most incomprehensible tannoy system (even when English is being spoken), further proof of the influence of Kernighan and Ritchie methinks.
By tim, on June 4th, 2009 at 8:17 pm Tonight, I was looking forward to having a play with the neural networks software – but the DVD drive on my computer has stopped working! Apparently my wife noticed this a few days ago but failed to mention it. Sigh. Still, it does mean I can nip down to Maplins or PC World or Staples and have a look at some new toys.
I mention Staples, as although both of the other places have lots more fun gadgets to play with (and there’s only so much excitement I can get – no, anyone can get from chairs and desks and . . . → Read More: ED209 – Week 18
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