Spent a very interesting and thought provoking day at the Web Science conference held at the Royal Society today. Also met up with a couple of blokes that you may recognise ;)
Just returned from a really interesting visit to the University of Limerick. Worked with a great team to review the Computer Science Department including the LERO Research Centre. It was hard work but very enjoyable. University of Limerick has a l...
I had an interesting day today. Quick pre root canal trip to the dentist...that joy is to follow tomorrow morning :-o an interesting UNESCO Information Society UK Working Group meeting in Carleton House Terrace followed by a great meeting with Had...
Yesterday didn't start so well, my elder daughter Emma dropped the ironing board on her foot and we thought for a bit it might be broken, luckily it wasn't :) I was due to Chair two sessions and give a presentation at Opentech from 10.45am-12.40pm...
Tomorrow: 11th September 2010 would have been my Mum's 70th birthday. Unfortunately she died in 1975 when I was 12 and my brother and sister were 7. She had a headache one Saturday morning, went to bed, became unconscious and was then was taken to...
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I had a really fabulous day yesterday! A few days ago @ChrisFloydUK contacted me via Twitter to ask if I would be interested in being photographed for his #portwit project for the Sunday Times. He had had the great idea of photographing lots of pe...
On 4th May I presented two papers on the use of social media in software development at the Web2SE workshop as part of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2010 in Cape Town. ICSE is the top international conference in my re...
Last Bank Holiday Monday was a fabulous day for running. The weather was grey, overcast and a bit cold, which is actually great as you get quite hot when running, sunny weather is a killer. We set off from home at around 8am and got to the Mental ...
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