Dipity: a great execution of social time
Having spent quite a lot of the last two years thinking about timelines, Dipity appears to be a fantastic tool for playing with your social activity across a timeline. The site also allows you to view your activity in other ways, including a map view or a flip-book.
Nice…
Upcoming trip to Abu Dhabi
In one week’s time I, and 11 colleagues from LBi will be travelling to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to work with Etihad, the national carrier…should be a fun trip, and I’m going to document it on my fresh new photoblog. I’m aiming for a picture a day but we’ll see…there’s going to be plenty of work to do as well…
A Christmas Country Journey to Dorset
Ah, Christmas…seems so long ago now. Especially after a working week at LBi. We headed down to Fifehead Magdalen in Dorset to spend some time amongst the cows and horses – and enjoy some fine food along the way. I managed to squeeze in some photography and some guitar amongst other things. Fab…
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Camera lust
Well I wish it hadn’t happened, but it has. The other day at work I was checking out the prices for full frame Canon cameras and had started getting a little teeny bit interested in the Canon D5 Mark I – especially now that Amazon have knocked £600 from the price.
Then someone showed me this piece of video, shot by Vincent Laforet with the upcoming Mark II D5. Stunningly good looking, but the camera is £2000….slightly out of my range but techno-lust does strange things to a person…
Damn. Want one.
UPDATE: another piece of video here. Possibly more realistic (and more shaky :)
Obscure and overlooked
An odd feeling, nostalgia. And when it’s brought back by someone else’s perspective I’m not sure how to react. Anyways, it was interesting to read a post on Left and To the Back about some music that I was once involved with. Especially as playing the guitar is starting to become a part of my life again…
One London summer…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog, and it’s time I got writing again. No excuses for why I’ve been neglecting it, but I guess I kind of fell out of love with the things I used to write about. A little bit of boredom. Malaise even.
So while I’ve been away, some of the things I’ve been up to:
:: I spent a weekend near Toulouse, at Le Chateaux de St Martory, at the wedding of two old friends
:: had a fab weekend at the End of the Road festival, in Dorset. Some pics of a semi-wet, but mostly lovely weekend in the country.
:: I became a semi-pro photographer, by taking photos at one wedding and one party full of people interested in luxury bathroom fittings. I tell ya, it was surely a rock’n'roll evening.
:: I’ve been working on some interesting projects for LBi, and getting involved in lots of other work too. Nice to be back in the East though.
So, more to folllow…
Service Systems
Wow. I happened across a white paper produced by IBM & Cambridge University, with the title ‘Succeeding Though Service Innovation‘. It’s a first stab at trying to draw some shape onto what is essentially a fragmented, cross-disciplinary domain, and I have to say, it’s pretty bloody good. Read the rest of this entry »
