Archive for July, 2007

The Debate on Public Services

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

The fire has died down a bit, so it’s time to stoke the flames with another political blog post! My response to kungfooguru can be found on my non-tech blog here.

BARCamp Retrospective

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007

I never had a post-BarCamp update, and I don’t really intend to do much of one now, but I do want to highlight a few things in case you didn’t see them elsewhere and for myself in the future.

BarCamp was lots of fun. There were quite a few good talks. There was also disappointingly too little coding. I will definitely do it again next year, and I’ll prepare something more substantial than the non-talk I did this year on old technology. My non-talk proved very popular, lots of people were standing around as I demonstrated my ballista, and lots of people got the opportunity to play with it. I also made it in to all the videos I’ve seen from the event. Here they are:

BusinessPOV’s documentarian approach to covering the event.

Some random guy’s youtube video of SpecialKevin firing the ballista.

The best idea ever.