One of my top new projects this year is to establish a (large) network of people working in public services in the UK. The idea is that there are plenty of people in public service who essentially do a very similar job to one another – it just happens to be serving a particular geographic…
A departure now from the podwalking. I will certainly keep them up – perhaps a weekly feature, but this really is my weblog and it should be at least as much about what I’m doing and thinking as about exploring new technologies. So here are a couple of audioblogs from this week – I’m still…
Another walk (well it starts off with a bus ride!) this time from Chelsea to Victoria Station As before there is an accompanying flickr photoset at http://www.flickr.com/photos/lloyd-davis with the tag podwalk003. I’m also trying out the “Liberated Syndication” podcast storage facilility at www.libsyn.com which gives me 250mb of space and unlimited bandwidth for just more…
Take another stroll with me, this time through the City of London where I set off with an idea of where I’m going that soon turns out to be wrong! Photos to accompany the walk are among my photos at flickr in the podwalk002 photoset.
After Soho to Westminster proved popular yesterday, I did another, shorter, walk today from London Waterloo, across Hungerford Bridge to Charing Cross, chatting to myself as I went. I’m experimenting with taking pictures as I go – particularly to find the best way of sharing them. I’ve put them up on flickr with the first…
Great pictures on AKMA’s flickr stream of the fun today in Chicago – I miss having enough snow here for snowballing. Two aspects obviously differentiate the Chicago event from the European predecessors that I’m sure will have affected the conversation subtly – fewer women (Lilia, I think was the only one!) and a higher proportion…
I saw weird stuff in my search query logs today – at first I thought it was funny and a bit crazy that people were finding me through “beastiality”. I tried to think where I’d mentioned (and mispelled) such practices. Then, I happened to look back at an archive post and realised why – although…
So yesterday I was going from my office in Soho down to a meeting in Westminster, and rather than a boring bus trip or complicated tube journey, I gave myself a little extra time and walked down Dean St, turning left into Old Compton St, through Moor St and over Cambridge Circus, down Charing Cross…
This morning my ipodder brought me three minutes of excitement and inspiration. Gerald Buckley works for AAPG the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and he’s put together a kind of internal communication/diary announcement podcast for them. The combination of heavy technical oil speak and the funky backing track he uses can get a bit surreal,…
Day 2 (of about 50 over the next three months) of my time with Newham Social Services, leading the Performance Team (the guys who collect performance information about services and report it to senior management) while a permanent person is recruited. Getting some sense of perspective today of what’s actually possible in 3 months and…