http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:12:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=51 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=50 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=49 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=48 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=47 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=34 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=45 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=44 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=43 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 ... http://www.e-ssociation.net/blog/?p=42