Today, I picked up my first Ospreys season ticket (actually the first season ticket of any description) so I’m all set for a year of live Magner’s League, Anglo-Welsh and European cup rugby at the Liberty Stadium. First game is Shane William’s testimonial against Leicester Tigers tomorrow!
Another rainy day in August
Here’s the first real 365 Project photo. It puts into pixels what I feel about August so far!
Follow the rest of this series by visiting Crispy’s 365 Photos Project.
My 365 project starts today – but here’s one I made earlier
A popular subject on Flickr is the so called 365 pictures project in which individuals or groups take and upload a picture a day. I’ve 
decided to have a go myself, but couldn’t add the snaps taken at the 30th Pontardawe Festival last Sunday, because that would have left two days without a photo! However, the Sunday night headliners, Transglobal Underground, were just too good to ignore, so here’s a mosaic from Flickr which you can click on to go to the Album. There are/will be more pictures from Pontardawe 2008 on Flickr and Picasa.
Inspirational OSCON keynote
Nat Torkington lives in New Zealand and has spent the last couple of years volunteering as a sysadmin, computer club organizer, and teacher at his local primary school. He shares his experiences of teaching programming to 8-12 year olds in his blog (and also on O’Reilly Radar) as well as in this inspirational talk from OSCON 2008. His conclusion, a call to arms for geeks everywhere to help their local schools, is inspirational. But I was struck in particular by his observation that girls in this age group are better than boys in most skills required to be successful programmers: what happens between primary school and University that so drastically reduces their interest in ICT and, by extension, the other sciences?
A video of Nat’s keynote, hosted at blip.tv is syndicated here:
OSCON 2008 Keynotes
Today was first day back “at work” and I’ve spent much of it catching up on OSCON 2008, O’Reilly’s annual open source conference, which was this year held in Portland Oregon between July 21-25. Greg Pollack of the RailsEnvy Podcast has made a nice video introduction to the conference (OSCON in 37 minutes) in which he gets various luminaries and speakers to introduce their talks and so provide a nice lead-in to the presentations, most of which are on-line, and the keynotes which were video-recorded and made available for syndication via blip.tv.
