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On Blogging
Published on 9 Jul 2010 at 2:12 pm.
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In preparation for a session at The Richmond Group tomorrow I’m making some notes about my blogging experiences.
My business opportunities generally come by word of mouth so my network is more important to me than overt promotion. I also need to know people who have complementary skills so I can deal with the widest […]
Climate Change Debate at MITEF
Published on 28 May 2010 at 9:30 am.
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Last night’s climate change debate further convinced me that it’s the wrong debate. We had distinguished speakers and good facilitation so the debate itself was very useful. However, the topic is getting seriously boring.
Once again we were bombarded with numbers and “evidence”. It’s too much and it’s self-defeating. If there was real consensus amongst the […]
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GoogleTV announcement and thoughts
Published on 21 May 2010 at 7:54 am.
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Spent a great evening watching GoogleIO live in the company of the London Android group (#londroid). We were watching primarily to find out what’s coming up in the next couple of Android releases and this met expectations. This included taking relentless potshots at 1, Infinite Loop in the name of “openness”. Then came the launch […]
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OSHUG 29th March
Published on 1 May 2010 at 12:13 pm.
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I attended the inaugural of a new “Open Source Hardware User Group”, kindly hosted by the nice people at Osmosoft (now part of BT).
The agenda centred on the XMOS technology and featured founder David May talking about the technology and Alan Wood @folknology, covering proposals for an open source XMOS-based hardware and software application […]
Thinking about Solar
Published on 25 Apr 2010 at 4:37 pm.
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I spent some time this week looking at Solar PV and Solar Thermal systems. I did this online so it was not an in-depth exercise. Came away with no decision. One reason was because of all the reports of mis-selling (incl. in May Edition of Which?) and our own experience when we […]
Home Energy Management - The Journey
Published on 19 Feb 2010 at 3:07 pm.
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OK, enough hacking for the moment. Need to live with current gadgets a while and tune up our energy use. As blogged earlier, we have already made significant savings without any real reduction in comfort. The savings have more than paid for the few gadgets we’re using and we’ve created a small budget for further investments […]
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London Hackspace 10th Feb
Published on 13 Feb 2010 at 11:56 pm.
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My first outing to a Wednesday session. More or less social but with a topic session, in this case on energy monitoring by Ken Boak @monsonite. Well attended. Those present were engaged and asked lots of questions. In my case I knew of Ken’s work but there was much that I had not appreciated.
Ken likes […]
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There’s an App for this too
Published on 7 Feb 2010 at 4:35 pm.
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I decided it was time to bring the energy monitoring experience to the small screen so I grabbed one of the open source toolkits for this, namely Titanium from Appcelerator. These guys have done a great job and, though the tools are still in beta, they are a great way to develop and app […]
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Local Transition Towns Initiative
Published on 27 Jan 2010 at 5:25 pm.
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It was good to discover a local group putting together a Transition Towns initiative called Chalfonts4Change. I am looking forward to working with people in the local community on various aspects of energy demand reduction. Here are some links that I’ve put here while we wait to get C4C online.
My favourite energy book Without Hot […]
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Energy Monitoring - New Year Thoughts
Published on 18 Jan 2010 at 5:38 pm.
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After spending all available free time rebuilding my PCs I had lost the thread of finishing the monitoring kit at least to the point where others can use it. Got a Mac to put an end to all that so I can now get back to my main project.
We had concluded that monitoring is […]