Gina raised about £270 for charity by shaving her head last night. All of that will go towards building classrooms and providing sanitation to a school in rural Nepal. A great cause, and a brave girl! From YouTube, here.

I finally finished updating my blog and it’s now live to the world after a week of downtime. I had some unanticipated technical issues, and while I could have gone live and sorted them out after, I’d rather launch it fully-working.
Most people won’t notice anything other than a slightly different look as most changes are [...]

Photo by Ben Reyes, released under Creative Commons. Original here.

I got back from BarCamp on Sunday night, but just haven’t got round to blogging since. It was really great… I learnt tonnes and met some really interesting people (geeks are people too!) and will post some thoughts on presentations when I get a chance this week.
There’s photos on Flickr here, videos on YouTube and [...]

I’m presenting at BarCamp (kinda an ad-hoc technology conference) this weekend, which I’m looking forward to. I’m going to be presenting on the subject, “Offshore Outsourcing and the Value of Test-Driven Development”, based on things I learnt while working as an IDS (IT systems analysis) intern at Procter & Gamble over the summer.
The BarCampLondon2 wiki [...]

I’m aware that the parent category of “banter” is far too flippant for this post.
I’ve just got back from the cinema where I saw Blood Diamond, a film set in Sierra Leone in 1999. It was, when it comes down to it, a typical Hollywood movie - romance, action, a quest, good guys, bad guys. [...]

Just a quick note to say that I’m going to stop adding links to del.icio.us. Tagging stuff adds a lot of extra time to my daily blogroll-reading. Anything I find of interest I post on my blog anyway (I also add my opinions on my blog, which I don’t do with del.icio.us links) so I [...]

Just a short update to my previous post about partial feeds. For the moment, I’ll carry on using the full feeds. This means that Facebook users (along with those using feedreaders) will be able to view the whole post without coming to the site. I’ll make Facebook partial feeds only in the next few weeks. [...]

Just a quick post which concerns anyone who reads my feed either in a feed aggregator or in Facebook. All of my posts from now on will be partial feeds, which means that you’ll get the first few words followed by [...]. If you use an RSS reader, you’ll have to click the link to [...]

Five things you might not know about me:

I used to “sing” in my school choir.
Contrary to popular belief, I once held down a relationship for a whole 9 months.
I got the highest Advanced Higher Geography mark in Scotland in 2003.
When I was younger, I used to be obsessed with Star Trek. Not only did I [...]

Just an update on my blog’s tags and web feeds. If you’re not a geek, ignore this post.
Over the last day I’ve tidied my tags into more logical, manageable groupings. You can see all these in the right-hand column near the bottom. Hopefully it will make it easier to find what you want - to [...]

This is a bit of a change. Rather than limiting myself to tech- and politics-related stuff, I’ve decided to throw it open to anything that catches my fancy, and make more use of various media.
I’ve also decided to split the blog in two (if you’re reading this in an RSS reader or on Facebook you [...]