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Computers as Art?
Blog A friend of mine invited me to the Camberwell College of Art's student exhibition back in June which was one of the more enjoyable afternoons I have spent in Camberwell - actually it's probably the only afternoon I have spent in Camberwell but hey.
[July 23, 2007, 19:46]
Oh Orange, where art thy code of practice?
Blog Orange subscribers who have taken up the mobile phone company's offer of free broadband haven't had a terribly good experience with it, by all accounts. They've even had to put up with an outage lasting weeks but, as it turns out, it seems the poor...
[April 24, 2007, 14:59]
Is this cutting-edge journalism?
Blog Great verbal slip just then from RSA's executive vice president, Art Coviello, in the analyst/journalist session at RSA Conference 2007. Cue much merriment (we don't get many laughs at these trade shows*), and a classy follow-up from Art C -- "You...
[February 6, 2007, 21:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog An anonymous model cobbled together from various bits left over from other projects, most of it would have been state of the art a couple of years ago - but now it's just a 2.4GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM (which, being Rambus, I cannot afford to...
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The Cameo cinema is exactly opposite: one of Scotland's most famous and ancient art house theatres, it has a huge reputation and a constant stream of excellent movies. Like many art cinemas in the UK, the Cameo is owned by a group called City...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog He had an art project to commit. Eschewing the normal, run-of-the-mill art student stuff -- post-modern analysis of the patterns of dog poo on campus, painting a ten foot Madonna using his own and others' sputum, that sort of thing -- he decided...
[May 11, 2001, 16:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog China in manufacturing today defines what's state of the art. India in terms of IT services defines what's state of the art. Tuesday 27/1/2004 Bill Gates is in town, picking up his knighthood and probably laying down the law over all this open...
[January 30, 2004, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But most importantly, the end of the thin Ethernet card means the end of a much underappreciated art form -- the T Piece Sculpture. You just can't do that with 10BASET connectors, and there are serious philosophical problems involved with 802.11...
[May 21, 2004, 18:45]
xG, xMax, xetera...
Blog Most current state of the art modulation schemes get pretty close: xG says it is thousands of times better than the current state of the art, which puts it firmly over the other side of the curve and into Star Trek territory.
[August 16, 2007, 19:12]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Forget the pram in the hallway, the sombre enemy of good art is the wireless router in the cupboard. Days writing in severe isolation, nights spent watching art movies with pals and contemplating skies free of light pollution.
[April 21, 2006, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The publication in question needed a deputy art editor - page design, pictures, that sort of thing - and found a likely bod from the East End. Final straw, really: farewell, dep art ed. Watch the announcer on BBC try and fail to come to terms with...
[September 6, 1997, 9:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My 'office art' consists of a small teddy bear clutching a model Concorde, a selection of chips and a perspex-embedded electron gun. Orange County, however, is the land that taste forgot - one shop window has a large, grimacing bronze fantasy...
[February 14, 1998, 6:00]
skye jewellery
Blog lathe diy metal drawing home signed art glass owl la roca silver book character named opal isle of skye jewellery joystick machine pendants high temp hoist pendant station sapphire diamond princess cut earrings
[September 14, 2009, 21:01]
The application is becoming more fragile
Blog Last week I met with a company called dynaTrace, an organisation that labels itself as practitioners in the art of Continuous Application Performance Management, or APM if you prefer. I actually wrote about this company relatively recently, so was...
[July 27, 2009, 8:51]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog We're off to London's glitzy Soho, to a huge art-deco bar with no fewer than nine enormous mirror balls dangling from alcoves in the ceiling. Tuesday 26/10/2004 The occasion is Microsoft's launch of Windows Media Center 2005, and the company is...
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
Liven up eLearning course to engage learners with funny quiz
Blog Making good eLearning courses is a developing art. As a trainer, your goal is to make the training memorable. As you design the course, you must design not only the "what” (or content), but also the "how" (the delivery mechanisms).
[June 8, 2009, 15:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To the Royal Society of Art on the Strand, where I'm chairing a public round-table discussion on Telecoms Leadership. Tuesday 21/09/2004 A selection of senior bods (and one bodesse) from companies like BT, Cable and Wireless and Motorola are...
[September 24, 2004, 18:15]
RSA: We are spending too much on security
Blog That was the interesting admission from the chief executive of RSA Security Art Corviello at his company's conference in London today. The show is running for three days and has some interesting names and faces from the international IT security...
[October 27, 2008, 10:17]
Thursday
Blog To the Institute of Contemporary Art on Pall Mall, where top PR company Bite are holding their -- brace yourself -- Christmas in August spectacular. Thursday 15/08/2002 Loads of companies crowd into two un-air-conditioned rooms on the hottest day...
[August 16, 2002, 17:03]
Future of surveillance?
Blog Bruce Schneier in his 'Surveillance as performance art' blog post says this story of perpetual scrutiny is the future of government monitoring of citizens. At the moment Hasan Elahi is monitoring himself after being detained by the FBI, but...
[October 30, 2006, 16:06]
