Articles index
2020
September
August
- Week in review: 24 - 30 August
- Week in review: 17 - 23 August
- Week in review: 10 - 16 August
- I have two kidneys
- 20s in Review
- Week in review: 3-9 August
- Vegan in Albania
- All the photos I took from my balcony during lockdown
- Week in review: 27 July - 2 August
July
- Overstaying in Albania
- Intermission
- Week in review: 20 - 26 July
- Week in review: 13 - 19 July
- Week in review: 6 - 12 July
- Week in review: 29 June - 5 July
June
- Week in review: 22 - 28 June
- Week in review: 15 - 21 June
- Week in review: 8 - 14 June
- Week in review: 1 - 7 June
May
- Week in review: 25 - 31 May
- A trip to Përmet
- Week in review: 18 - 24 May
- Along the Albanian Riviera
- Week in review: 11 - 17 May
- Week in review: 4 - 10 May
- Week in review: 27th April to 3rd May
April
- Week in review: 20 - 26 April
- Week in review: 13 - 19 April
- Week in review: 6 - 12 April
- Week in review: 30 March - 5 April
March
- Week in review: 23 - 29 March
- Week in review: 16 - 22 March
- I am become Best Man, Best of All the Men
- Week in review: 8 - 15 March
- Hiking to Ksamil and Butrint
- Week in review: 2 - 8 March
- Week in review: 24 Feb - 1 March
February
- Week and a half in review: 3 - 12 Feb
- Everything I own fits in a 35L RiutBag now
- Week in review: 27 Jan - 2 Feb
January
2019
December
- Week in review: 23 - 29 Dec
- Week in review: 16 - 22 Dec
- Week in review: 9 - 15 December
- Week in review: 2 - 8 Dec
- Week in review: 25 Nov - 1 Dec
November
- Week in review: 18 - 24 November
- Week in review: 11 - 17 Nov
- Week in review: 4 - 10 Nov
- Week in review: 28 Oct - 3 Nov
- The night train from Sofia to Varna
October
September
- Week in review: 23 - 29 Sept
- Week in review: 16 - 22 September
- Reflections prompted by #ClimateStrike
- Week in review: 9 - 15 September
- Week in review: 2 - 8 September
- Week in review: 26 Aug - 1 Sept
August
- Week in review: 19 - 25 August
- Week in review: 12 - 18 Aug
- Week in review: 5 - 11 Aug
- Week in review: 29 July - 4 August
July
- Week in review: 22 - 28 July
- Week in review: 15 - 21 July
- Week in review: 8 - 14 July
- Week in review: 1 - 7 July
June
- Week in review: 24 - 30 June
- Vegan in Montenegro
- Adventures in Montenegro
- Week in review: 17 - 23 June
- Week in review: 10 - 16 June
- Week in review: 3 - 9th June
- Week in review: 27 May - 2 June
May
- Vegan in Harare, Zimbabwe
- A couple of weeks in Harare, Zimbabwe
- Week in review: 20 - 26 May
- Week in review: 13 - 19 May
- Week in review: 6 - 12 May
- Week in review: 29 April - 5 May
April
- Week in review: 22 - 28 April
- Week in review: 15 - 21 April
- Week in review: 8 - 14 April
- Week in review: 1 - 7 April
March
- Week in review: 25 - 31 March
- Week in review: 18 - 24 March
- Week in review: 11 - 17 March
- Week in review: 4 - 10 March
- Week in review: 25 Feb - 3 March
February
- Week in review: 18 - 24 Feb
- Week in review: 11 - 17 Feb
- Welcome to Athens
- Week in review: 4 - 10 Feb
- Week in review: 28 Jan - 3 Feb
January
2018
December
- Week in review: 24 - 30 December
- Week in review: 17 - 23 December
- Week in review: 10 - 16 December
- Week in review: 3 - 9 Dec
- Week in review: 26 Nov - 2 Dec
November
- Week in review: 19 - 25 November
- Week and a half in review: 8 - 18 Nov
- Week and a half in review: 29 Oct - 7 Nov
October
- Week in review: 22 - 28 October
- Week in review: 15 - 21 October
- Week in review: 8 - 14 October
- Week in review: 1 - 7 October
September
- Week in review: 24 - 30 September
- Everything wrong with this Holy Donut milkshake
- Week in review: 17 - 23 September
- Week in review: 10 - 16 September
- Cycling the Curonian Spit
- Week in review: 3 - 9 September
- Vegan in Estonia
- Week in review: 27 August - 2 September
August
- Week in review: 20 - 26 August
- Week in review: 13 - 19 August
- Status update
- Week in review: 6 - 12 August
- Day 2 in Tallinn
- Re: #FlyingLess
- Bussing to the Baltics
- Vegan in Ukraine
- A few days in Ukraine
- Week in review: 30 July - 5 August
July
- Tales from the Black Sea
(aka the ferry from Batumi to Odesa) - Week in review: 23 - 29 July
- Shemomechama (Vegan in Georgia)
- Week in review: 16 - 22 July
- Week in review: 9 - 15 July
- Week in review: 2 - 8 July
- Week in review: 25 June - 1 July
June
- Week in review: 18 - 24 June
- Vegan in Trójmiasto (Gdynia / Sopot / Gdansk)
- Week in review: 11-17 June
- Vegan in Vienna 2
- Week in review: 4 - 10 June
- Week in review: 28 May - 3 June
May
- Week in review: 21 - 27 May
- Week in review: 14 - 20 May
- To Hel and back
- Stuff update
- Week in review: 7 - 13 May
- Week in review: 30 April - 6 May
- Bouncing around Europe
- Vegan in Krakow
- A day in Krakow
April
- Some nightbuses
- Week in review: 23 - 29 April
- A day in Munich
- TheWebConf 2018 in Lyon
- Vegan in Lyon
- Week in review: 16 - 22 April
- A week in South Moravia
- Week in review: 9 - 15 April
- Some stuff I did in Vienna
- Vegan in Vienna
- Week in review: 2 - 8 April
- A week in Bratislava
- Vegan in Bratislava
- Week-and-a-half in review: 22 March - 1 April
March
- Week-and-a-half in review: 12 - 21 March
- Vegan in Budapest
- Two weeks in Budapest
- Week in review: 5th - 11th March
- Week in review: 26th Feb - 4th March
February
- Vegan in Prague
- Five days in Prague
- Week in review: 19 - 25 Feb
- Week in review: 12 - 18 Feb
- Week in review: 5 - 11 Feb
- Week in review: 29 Jan - 4 Feb
January
2017
December
- Week in review: 25 - 31 December
- Weeks in review: 11-24 December
- Week in review: 4 - 10 December
- Vegan in Edinburgh
- A day in Ghent
- Week in review: 27 November - 3 December
November
- Week in review: 20 - 26 November
- Week in review: 13 - 19 November
- Week in review: 6 - 12 November
- Week in review: 30 October - 5 November
October
- Week in review: 23 - 29 October
- Week in review: 16 - 22 October
- Week in review: 9 - 15 October
- Week in review: 2 - 8 October
- Blade Runner rape scene
- Week in review: 25 September - 1 October
September
- Week in review: 18 - 24 September
- Where no MaN has gone before
- Week in review: 11 - 17 September
- Week in review: 4 - 10 September
- Week in review: 28 August - 3 September
August
- Week in review: 21 - 27 August
- Week in review: 14 - 20 August
- Week in review: 7 - 13 August
- DIY LDN Inbox
- Week in review: 31 July - 6 August
July
- Week in review: 24 - 30 July
- Week in review: 17 - 23 July
- Web Standards Column: Linked Data Notifications
- Week in review: 10 - 16 July
- Week in review: 3 - 9 July
- Week in review: 26 June - 2 July
June
- Week in review: 19 - 25 June
- The WebConf Call for Contributions
- Week in review: 12 - 18 June
- Investigative Data Engineer, OCCRP
- Week in review: 5 - 11 June
- Downsizing
- Split again
- Vegan in Rome
- Some weeks in Europe
- Week in review: 29 May - 4 June
- Vegan in Portoroz and Piran
May
- Week in review: 22 - 28 May
- Review of "Utilising Semantic Web Ontologies to publish Experimental Workflows"
- Review of "Decentralized creation of academic documents using a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server"
- A response to "Scholarly Social Machines"
- Vegan in Trieste
- Treiste some more
- Discovering Trieste
- Week in review: 15 - 21 May
- Review of Instrumenting Continuous Knowledge Extraction, Sharing, and Benchmarking
- Weeks in review: 1 - 14 May
April
- Week in review: 24 - 30 April
- Week in review: 17 - 23 April
- Phone update
- Week in review: 10 - 16 April
- Week in review: 3 - 9 April
- Pioneering the Linked Open Research cloud
- Week in review: 27 March - 2 April
March
- Week in review: 20 - 26 March
- Tour of South Kuta
- Review of Terrace Ampels Villa
- Breakfast at warungs
- Week in review: 13 - 19 March
- Seminyak
- Love and Coconuts
- Week in review: 6 - 12 March
- The Presentation of Self on a Decentralised Web
- Far away in time
- Week in review: 27 Feb - 5 Mar
- 3/4 of a day in Ubud
February
- Ketogenic veganism, and other dietary musings
- A day in Ipoh
- Week in review: 20 - 26 Feb
- Week in review: 13 - 19 Feb
- Penang Hill Forest Challenge
- Effecting change in academic publishing
- Week in review: 6 - 12 Feb
- Penang Festivities
- Air Itam to Balik Pulau
- Week in review: 30 Jan - 5 Feb
- Langkawi 8: the rest
- Langkawi 7: the chilling diaries
- Langkawi 6: home is where the hammock is
- Langkawi 5: escape from Langkawi
January
- Langkawi 4: high places
- Langkawi 3: islands and waterfalls
- Langkawi 2
- Week in review: 23 - 29 Jan
- Langkawi 1
- Pee on it: Penang Hill, Batu Ferringhi, and a close encounter with a jellyfish
- Week in review: 16 - 22 Jan
- Observing the decentralised social web
(one telescope at a time) - Annalakshmi
- Week in review: 9 - 15 Jan
- Firefox bookmarks to ActivityStreams 2.0
- North West George Town stroll
- Totalling my expenses
- Week in review: 2nd - 8th Jan
- Stormy evening
- Week in review: 26 Dec - 1 Jan
2016
December
- Gurney Drive and Penang Hill
- Week in review: 19 - 25 December
- George Town wandering
- Dripping (Penang National Park)
- Week in review: 12 - 18 December
- Week in review: 5 - 11 December
- George Town 1
- Kuala Lumpur 10
- Kuala Lumpur 9
- Kuala Lumpur 8
- Kuala Lumpur 7
- Kuala Lumpur 6
- Kuala Lumpur 5
- Kuala Lumpur 4
- Week in review: 28 Nov - 4 Dec
- Kuala Lumpur 3
- Kuala Lumpur 2
- Kuala Lumpur 1
- Still have too much stuff
November
- Week in review: 21 - 27 Nov
- 8th Social WG F2F Summary
- Decentralisation considered harmful
- Week in review: 14 - 20 Nov
- Vegan in Tokyo
- Week in review: 7 - 13 Nov
- Deep fried soy meat
- An Inconvenient Tooth
- Week in review: 31 Oct - 6 Nov
- Gyoza
- Reviews make the world go round
- The Virtue of Paywalls
- Why is three positive conference reviews more reassuring than one thousand facebook comments?
- Some questions
- Decentralising the Social Web in Tokyo
October
- HTTPS: A dream with Dreamhost
- October in review
- Vegan mayo in Japan
- 7th Social WG F2F Summary
- New Amtrak record: 37 hours through the Wild West
- Austintatious
- I, Nomad
- In Memoriam: purple beanie (and a day in Providence)
September
July
June
May
- Minimal ActivityPub update client
- Minimal ActivityPub update endpoint
- San Diego 03
- San Diego 02
- San Diego 01
- Many big trees (Santa Cruz 03)
- Santa Cruz 02
- San Jose
- Santa Cruz 01
April
March
February
January
2015
December
- Standards and Star Trek
- Week in review
- Portland is delicious
- HTTPS: whaaaaat
- Social Web WG 4th face-to-face summary
- Things and happenings: modelling social for the web
- HTTPS: What a terrible experience
- Week in review
- HTTPS: Not a terrible experience
- Mini Amtrak Adventure
November
- Week in review
- Vegan chocolate fudge pie
- Standards and Star Trek
- Standards and Star Trek
- Standards and Star Trek
- Week in review
- Coconut chocolate cake
October
September
August
- On extensibility of Microformats
- Taking mobility for granted
- The Long Walk
- Honeycomb apple cakes
- API requirements derived from user stories
July
June
- Notes post social-informatics seminar talk
- What is a profile?
- "CV"@en-gb / "Resumৢ@en-us
- Another test
- ESWC2015
- Travel for productivity and health
May
- Navigating Slovenia
- I miss Zagreb already
- Falls, lakes, and my feet hurt
- A few hours in Zadar
- Sea and storms
- Snakes, spiders and sleepy Solta
- Micropubbing with json
- Where fishes go
- Ferry at Ancona
- WWW2015 reflection
- Generating an ActivityStream
- Amy's mini alpine adventure ctd
- Amy's mini Alpine Adventure
- New Quill editor
- Checkins
- Social Web WG 3rd face-to-face summary
April
March
February
January
2014
December
August
July
June
May
April
February
January
2013
November
- Week(s) in review: Hacking, linked data
- OKFN Glasgow #2
- EdinburghApps
- Prewired 3
- URIs for content creators and content
- Network of creator profiles
- Current Status
- Nanowrimo: It begins
- Sky stole £50 from me
October
- Nanowrimo: "Why do I do this to myself?"
- Graphite
- Remote SPARQL endpoints and RDF parsing
- Owning your Linked Data
- Autobiography
- The Launch of Prewired
- I touched my toes!
- Metadata parsing
- Twitter to Linked Data
- Triplestores and shared hosting
- Putting a blog on the Semantic Web
- PHP Markdown by Michel Fortin
- Slog'd: *S*emantic B*log* from Mark*d*own
- Yoga progress
- Swap-shop volunteer
September
- Cujo
- Angel of Death (J. Robert King)
- ScotGovCamp #scotgc13
- Co-founder and organiser, Prewired
- Volunteer Moderator
August
- Young Rewired State in Edinburgh #yrs2013
- Rhia Ro
- Co-organiser and mentor, Edinburgh Centre, Young Rewired State
- Weeks in Review: Thesis proposal
- Vague thoughts about content creators and the Semantic Web
July
- Week(s) in review: #SSSW2013, figuring stuff out and annotating YouTube
- #SSSW2013 Index
- #SSSW2013: Social semantics and serendipity
- [Notes] Fabio Ciravenga at #SSSW2013
- #SSSW2013: Practical semantics and human nature
- [Notes] Tommaso Di Noia at #SSSW2013
- [Notes] Harith Alani at #SSSW2013
- #SSSW2013: Collaborative ontology engineering and team formation
- [Notes] Natasha Noy at #SSSW2013
- [Notes] Lynda Hardman at #SSSW2013
- #SSSW2013: Research in theory and practice, and where on earth am I?
- [Notes] Poster session at #SSSW2013
- [Notes] Manfred Hauswirth at #SSSW2013
- [Notes] Introduction to Linked Data at #SSSW2013
- [Notes] Frank van Harmelen at #SSSW2013
- Attendee, Summer School for Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web
- Madrid: First impressions
- Week in review: Catching up, poster
- Post-Oz: Some conclusions
- Experimenting with airport security
June
- Days twenty eight and twenty nine: Oops. (Melbourne, Perth, Singapore)
- Day twenty four to twenty seven: Quests and silliness (Melbourne)
- Day twenty three: Day trippin' (Canberra and Sydney)
- Day twenty two: Recovering (Sydney)
- Days twenty and twenty one: More beach (Gold Coast)
- Day nineteen: Operation Stevie Lesson (Australia Zoo, Sunshine Coast)
- Day eighteen: Brisbane
- Day thirteen: Rainforest
- Day twelve: Chilling (Cairns)
- Day eleven: Sydney adventures
- Days seven to ten: Road-trippin' (Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, King's Canyon)
- Day six: Speed tourism begins (Sydney)
- #GovHack (Days four and five, Melbourne)
May
- Days one to three: Settling in (Melbourne)
- Pre-Oz: Quests
- Week in review: VidFest
- OKFN Meetup #6
- Week in review: annotating multimedia content
- Week in review: literature reviewin'
- [Notes] Watson, Semantic Web search engine, in 2007 and 2011
April
- Week in review: behind
- Starting up in IT panel discussion
- [Notes] How to write a literature review workshop
- Week in review: small events
- [Notes] 'How to write a thesis' workshop
- Week in review: upcatching
- Moderating Edinburgh Freegle
- Food For Jenny: A whole Saturday
- My First Bread
- 2nd UK Ontology Networks Workshop
- GemuCon (and making a living from YouTube)
- Week in review: con{ference|vention}
- Inspiring and empowering: The Lovelace Colloquium, Nottingham 2013
- Not taming Blogger after all
- Resonate new media festival
March
- Week in review: recovering?
- Week in review: Belgrade
- Current status
- Taming Blogger
- Week in review: foreverreading
- Notes about Meervisage - A Community Based Annotation Tool (for the Semantic Web)
- Open Data Day: Joined Up Edinburgh #joinuped
- Week in review: mostly social computing
- The Smart Data Hack #ilwhack
- Tigo tablet cover (crochet)
- Scotland Public Notices experiments
- Week in review: Reading and catching up
- Notes about the Semantic Web and social machines
- Notes on SW and Communities
- Notes about Annotating Multimedia with OntoMediaLawrence, K.F., schraefel, m.c.: Bringing communities to the semantic web and the semantic web to communities. In: Proceedings of WWW2006. (2006)
February
- Large handwarmers (crochet)
- Week(s) in review: ILWhack and JoinUpEd
- Co-organiser, Open Data Day Edinburgh
- Co-organiser, Smart Data Hack
- Computer Mediated Social Sense-Making
- Week in review: Planning trips!
- Week in review: more brainstorming
- Gibbering about decentralised networks
January
- Week in review: brainstorm
- OKFN Meetup #4
- Week in review: ILW hack, mostly
- Week in review: Networking
- Week in review: 6 month plan
- Week in review: Open Data in the community
- Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology, London, 7 December
- [Notes] Digital Methods as Mainsteam Methodology
- 1st International Open Data Dialogue, Berlin, 5-6 December
- Dynamic Web Design
- Digital Media Studio Project (DMSP)
- Morrissquirrel (crochet)
- Group project supervisor, Digital Media Studio Project
- Tutor and demonstrator, Dynamic Web Design
2012
December
- Week in review: Not much again
- Digital Totem Pole
- Week in review: Conferences
- Pecha Kucha, Digital Methods as a Mainstream Methodology
- Week in review: Not much
- Community Coordinator for Edinburgh
November
- Advice: willful misunderstanding, and audience as individuals
- Notes about Semantic Web tools for online communities
- Week in review: Pancakes & Project management
- Notes about ontology creation methodologies (2 papers)
- National Novel Procrastinating Month
- Remediating the Social #elmcip
- Speaker and panellist, Remediating the Social
October
September
August
June
May
January
2011
December
October
- Nanowrimo: Pre-madness
- Spells wear out
- Interactive-Bliction: > Investigate door.
- Fiction: The Hero of Monarar
September
- University 2.0: first impressions of a new world
- MSc by research Interdisciplinary Creative Practices
August
- Fiction and more fiction!
- Forced fiction 3: bottom, cabbage, concealing, promotion, strip
- A story about being trapped, which presently has no end.
- Forced fiction 2: billfold, circuitry, macintosh, reaction, usual
- Forced Fiction: a definition
- Day Twenty Two: Cairo
- Day Twenty One: Giza
- Days Eighteen, Nineteen and Twenty: Felucca sailin', then back to Luxor
- Day Seventeen: Philae Temple, Elephantine Island
- Day Sixteen: Abu Simbel and Elephantine Island
- Day Fifteen: Birthday! (Luxor and Aswan)
- Day Fourteen: The Valley of the Kings
- Day Thirteen: Luxor
- Intermission: Life on the Oasis truck
- Days Eleven and Twelve: More Dahab and Mount Sinai
- Day Ten: Israel
- Day Nine: The Blue Hole
- Days Seven and Eight: Dahab
- Day Six: Wadi Rum and Aqaba
- Day Five: Wadi Rum Desert
July
- Day Four: Petra
- Day Three: The Dead Sea and Karak
- Day Two:Amman to Mt Nebo
- Day one: Amman
- IT BEGINS
- I'm flying in less than 24 hours
May
April
2010
December
- Adventures in HTML5
- It's only half past one.
- I bought Tigo a new toy today.
- A moorhen died in my arms today.
- Having been recently re-inspired to delve properly into the world of HTML5
November
October
- Professional Practice: guest speaker number three
- Professional Practice: guest speaker number two
- Professional Practice, guest speaker number one