Last night I did another pecha kucha style talk this time at an event called Ignite held at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds. The format is basically 20 slides each set to appear for 15 seconds and then auto-advance. As opposed to the BettaKulcha talk I did last April this event has a more tech-heavy [...]
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This is Tom Morgan's blog ... is a web artisan, interaction designer, user experience bod, front-end techie, freelancer (hire me!), husband, dad (x2), welshish man; fan of daniel kitson, tom waits & mark rothko; aimiable, GSOH, 5'10", glasses, no facial-hair (no matter how I try); ertwhile footballer, painter & gamer.
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Ben Hammersley and the darkness.
It was the best of times it was the worst of times. It was also the darkest of times. It was dark before I even left the house. It was pitch black as I crossed the school field, feeling my way along the path, wondering which of the underfoot detritous I usually avoid was attaching [...]
Digital By Design?
Pontificating is very much like yawning, try being in the presence of those doing it and you just can’t help getting the urge to join in. I took myself along the the excellent Digital Lunch upstairs at the Adelphi on Wednesday where I was exposed to some interesting and thought provoking discussion about “design” and [...]
Magic & Conspiracy Theories – Slides and Notes from a talk at Bettakultcha VIII
I did a talk on Tuesday this week at Bettakulcha. It’s 20 slides in 5 minutes in front of about 300 people at the Corn Exchange in Leeds. I chose to do mine on Magic & Conspiracy Theories. Below are the slides with some notes which are basically either what I said, what I was [...]
Beta List
Betali.st is a blog which hopes to allow you to “be the first to discover and get access to the latest internet startups”. I can’t remember where I came across it, but I’ve been following via RSS for a little while now. It’s kind of fun because not only do they occasionally throw you a [...]
If it ain’t broke fix it.
My children are three and five years old at the moment so it seemed appropriate in a number of ways that Santa brought a copy of the game Connect 4 for Christmas. I had it when I was young and the mixture of simplicity and mild competition seemed like a good ‘next step’ in terms [...]
Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight?
Look at this graph. It’s a graph from a website but it looks very similar to a graph in a science experiment I did at school. It basically tracks the temperature of water as you heat it. All the way from ice through it’s melting point (0°C) up to and through it’s boiling point (100°C). [...]
Electricity Monitor
We recently were given an electricity monitor for a trial period from my wife’s work. In case you’ve not seen them they come in two parts; one attaches to a wire between your electricity meter and your fuse box (under the stairs!), the other sits on your TV and is a small (3 x 4″) [...]
#tedxleeds
I attended TEDx Leeds at the Rose Bowl last Thursday night. It was a very interesting evening with an impressive array of speakers and a good format for the night. Interspersing live speakers with TED videos provided a nice kind of variety and of course being TED the videos were of such good quality the [...]
splice returns an array!
This one caught me out for a long time today. I have an array of Objects which I want to jumble up a bit. AS3 doesn’t come with a randomise (or randomize in the US!) function so I Googled around a bit to find one. The following came from some site somewhere and is no [...]