I've ended up a bit discouraged about my Sugar involvement (there's probably a blog post about lessons learnt in there, after I finish processing events in a useful way) so I decided it'd be best to step back for a while and digest things in the background before trying again …
read moreFiguring out HCI
I've been reading "The inmates are running the asylum" lately, and wow, is this book blowing my mind. I was amazed straight from the foreword, where the author states that the problems with the current software development process are due to accountancy, and then actually manages to explain it in …
read moreBook review: Women don't ask: Negotiation and the gender divide, by Babcock and Laschever
I discovered this book thanks to Valerie Aurora, looking up her website after hearing her speak at SkyCon '07. It's taken me a while to get around to reading it but it was very worthwhile. I would recommend reading Val's review of it, which I linked above and will link …
read moreNew addition to the family | Roomba!
The name was supposed to be Yojimbo (as a very useful but usually quite expensive invocation), but after observing the robot in action it will probably become Bumpy. The cat is not quite sure what to make out of the jumpy, noisy intruder yet, and is observing keenly and safely …
read moreTeaching how to program using Python, roundup
Over a few weeks, I taught a group of 6 teenagers, complete beginners, how to program using Python as the main language to illustrate concepts and to code examples. There were 4 sessions lasting 3 hours each. The final session was about 3 weeks ago and since then I've been …
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