Category Archives: Fluffy topics

On men’s fashion

Summary A moan about blandness In the grand scheme of things, men’s fashions as far as the Western world hasn’t changed that much in the past 100 years. The historian in me has never quite fathomed out why, after the … Continue reading

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Digital video project – the editing – and publishing the Twitter guide

Summary One down, one to go. [Updated to add that we will be re-recording the audio for both on better equipment this week, and adding subtitles following useful feedback] Dana worked her socks off today on the editing of the Twitter … Continue reading

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Digital video project 2 – the screencasting

Summary Now we really are behind schedule! …but it’s not the end of the world. Dana has kindly agreed to help out for an additional day due to the complications we’ve had using Adobe Premier across two different operating systems. “Mac … Continue reading

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Digital video project 2 – the writing

Summary How do you turn a set of ideas into a story board? This is what we spent much of today doing – something that took longer than I had anticipated and made me appreciate more the work that Alice, Dave, Kate and Nyika had put … Continue reading

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Happy New Year!

Summary A few things I want to do this year I found it telling that the BBC’s highlights of 2012 in the run up to Big Ben’s Bongs, the only thing that seemed to feature were the Olympics and Paralympics. … Continue reading

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2012: Making the best of an awful year

Summary How was 2012? For me, in the grand scheme of things a disaster. If someone said to me at the start of the year that I’d have a mental health crisis resulting in me not being able to work … Continue reading

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So this is Christmas…

…and what have you done? It’s sad to see the footage from John Lennon’s music video where the title and the above-line is taken from. It was in the mid-late 1980s that my parents bought what I remember to be … Continue reading

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Who’s Christmas is it anyway?

Summary Another Crimbo blogpost I’ve said to myself I’m still due a fantastic Christmas, where somethings really nice happen to the extent that they transform my immediate and medium term future while being damn good fun at the time. So … Continue reading

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I’d like to teach the world to sing

Summary A random list of stuff I’d like to do, see or experience – because it’s not as if I’m going to be able to afford a house or car in the near future I’ve been pondering a moany post … Continue reading

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You can dance if you want to

Summary Living in the land of dreaming? It’s one of those things that after X glasses of wine you think “That was possibly not the brightest thing to tweet after Puffles had been led astray after a #teacamp” but it’s … Continue reading

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