http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:04:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week the London Wiki Wednesdays thing kicked off again, which I'm pleased about. I enjoyed this regular meet-up of wiki and web 2.0 enthusiasts. It was happening monthly for a while, but this is the first time we've managed to get together in 2008. Apparently David Terrar ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/08/16/wiki-wednesdays-back-in-2008/ I suppose I really have to blog about going along to the London Bloggers Meet-up last night. It would be rude not to. It was held at the Dogetts Coat & Badge, which is a favourite of mine actually (We've taken Francine's brazillian visitors to this pub for traditional english grub, and views over the Thames) ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/07/30/london-bloggers-meet-up/ I finished reading The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it a couple of days ago, but previously (having read most of it) I went along to the Innovation Reading Circle where seven or eight people sat around discussing the book. Cyber law expert, Jonathan Zittrain, argues in this ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/07/29/future-of-the-internet-and-how-to-stop-it/ There's been lots of things keeping me busy these past few weeks. I just got back from a stag weekend in Edinburgh at which I discovered that I am surprisingly good at clay pigeon shooting, but losing my touch when it comes to taking alcohol ....or leading the way with the ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/07/28/stag-conferences-and-other-chaos/ Today I'm flying to Ireland to go to The State of the Map, a conference all about OpenStreetMap. I'll be spending this weekend meeting other OSM people and seeing a whole variety of talks on different aspects/ideas around project. I'm excited. Does this represent a disturbing escalation in my irrational ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/07/11/going-to-the-openstreetmap-conference/ We went to see In Search of a Midnight Kiss about a month ago, maybe more. It's a quirky artistic movie, with a quirky artistic character who at one point mentions that she likes to take photos of shoes, and publishes them on her quirky artistic website called "thelostshoeproject.com". Seeing ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/07/10/the-lost-shoe-project/ Excellent week of boating in the Alps! I think there was quite a lot of snow on the mountains still, which made for unusually high water for this time of year (as the sun melts it all off). In fact we were arriving just a few days after a too-much-water kayaking ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/06/24/alps-2008/ It's funny how stressful things always seems to accumulate during the period in the run up to a holiday. This week's been a bit frantic. I've ended up with a lot of work to finish off today, and now my PortalBuilder server has come up with a new and unexpected error ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/06/13/holiday-for-a-week/ Green Hat has bought Solstice Software, a U.S. based testing software company. "Solstice has always been an innovative company, and this acquisition will not only extend Green Hat's technology but also provide North American sales, development and product support, something our existing North American customers have requested. We are delighted to ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/06/07/green-hat-buys-solstice/ We went on a brothers and sisters and girlfriends trip to into the West last weekend, to visited my cousins and my cousin's new babies. Babies are great fun... although we did have the thing of "how on earth do make it stop crying?" at one point when we ... http://www.harrywood.co.uk/blog/2008/05/31/eden-project/