As I am busy Marie Kondo-ing the heck out of packing for my imminent departure from these shores* I was reminded by a couple of blog posts about the TRU Digital Detox, which starts up this Monday. I signed up for this when the first … Continue reading 2020 Detox Regime
“Facts, it seems, are not things that are verifiably true or false, merely components in a story. And bullshit is a far more pliable material than facts for creating narratives” (Stephen Duncombe, 2019, from “Dream or Nightmare: Reimagining politics in an age of fantasy”) Although … Continue reading To cease to believe in others is an impermissible luxury
So, in this multi-part series cataloguing the crazy that has been the last year, I’ve gotten inked, and debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe. What’s next? How’s about leaving The University of Edinburgh after 18 years? In fact, how’s about leaving Scotland after 40-*cough*-something years? Dear … Continue reading Pushing myself out of my comfort zone – part 3
Through Girl Geek Scotland I was lucky enough to be given a free ticket for the Accessibility Scotland conference on 25 October (in exchange for compering a lunchtime lightning talk session, which was a sheer delight and I very much got the better end of … Continue reading A quick reflection on inclusive service design from #A11yScotland
I’ve got a whole host of stuff to blog from MozFest (and Accessibility Scotland), and I’m sure I won’t get to all of it, but here’s an attempt at least! One of the best sessions I went to at MozFest was the Black Mirror Writers … Continue reading Black Mirror Writers Room – #MozFest 2019 session
Yeah, it’s another post on that hottest of topic – maintenance! I’m still waiting for my conference keynote… Over the last few weeks I’ve watched a familiar story play out in one of my teams and it’s worth capturing at high level because I think … Continue reading A quick and vexed thought about support costs
So, this is a multi-part set of blog posts it would seem. I’ve decided to chronicle my ongoing mid-life crisis, and not content with cliches, I decided that this year would also be the year that I pushed on in terms of making a spectacle … Continue reading Pushing myself out of my comfort zone – part 2
So yesterday and today the Twitter has been on fire about some work that was done over the summer by Emma Carroll, a recent graduate of Edinburgh and working with us as an Equate Scotland Careerwise intern. It culminated today in a really nice news … Continue reading Some witchy history and a very smart woman in data science
So, I wrote a blog post last year about building out a new WordPress blogging service at Edinburgh over the summer of 2018. That was a cool piece of work and we still get a thrill out of running it on a daily basis. This … Continue reading Subtitling: Or what we did over summer 2019
Whilst what I witter onto the internets here is personal, in so far as it’s the insides of my head, I tend to shy away from really personal stuff as a matter of course. I’ve hinted via a few blog posts that the last year … Continue reading Pushing myself out of my comfort zone – part 1
