I wrote the following for my current employers November newsletter, as insight to Data Visualisation. 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000 or more simply put 3 sextillion, 892 quintillion, 179 quadrillion, 868 trillion, 480 billion, 350 million is the number of new digital information bits created in 2008 according to EMC Corporation. This figure calculates to 487 billion gigabytes, with [...]
I recently went over to Spain to see a few stages of La Vuelta a España, and below are a few videos. Philip Gilbert continues to attack 150 meters from the finish in Malaga Stage 3. The Xacobeo-Galicia team exit the final corner of cobblestones in Triana during 2010 Vuelta a España, Stage 1: Sevile [...]
The following was written for my current employers April newsletter. The flash team recently went along to the Adobe Creative Suite 5 launch party to learn about some of the new features we can look forward to in Flash Player 10.1. One of the common moans users have about Flash Player is the affect it [...]
Wheres that wally? This time that wally is me and a week Friday ago I received an email from a friend saying that I had been spotted on google street view. After a brief study of the images I reckon I’m probably walking back to the office of a previous job at lunch sometime around [...]
Another This Happpened lecture on Thursday night and another missed chance to go alone. This time a twitter hashtag #thlon and 100 tickets gone in 30secs was my downfall, instead I was generously given a ticket to the Peter Saville lecture put on by D&AD which seemed more then a suitable alternative. The lecture theatre [...]
The whole of February just seemed fly by in a blur, and unfortunently I went the whole month without a blog post. Coupled with this, is the fact I’ve just managed to upload some photos to Flickr of a trip to New York in 2006!
I’ve been a little hectic recently and have had this post sat in my drafts for a week. It wasn’t long ago that I was sat reading an article in Creative Review about the demise of creativity within music videos. The article cited a number of obvious reasons for the demise, the reduction in the [...]
The over past couple of weeks, I’ve been residing between Bath and Bristol resting my knee before moving back to the smoke at the end of the week and perhaps best explains the randomness of this post. As part of my knee rehabilitation I have noticed a slight increase in the amount of Bacon Butties [...]
After getting slightly distracted with the makeover I gave this blog last week and getting stuck into other work this week, I managed to spend a few hours this morning working on my Google Maps and Last FM mashup. Not to much to report, although I did managed to calculate a chart for the most [...]
The Swedish Armed Forces have released two campaigns within the last year, in order to recruit potential officers. Both feature a set of intriguing and testing mind games produced in Flash which have been inspired by parts of the recruitment tests carried out by the Swedish Armed Forces. Each site is individually very good, the [...]