Vanger the Campervan is for sale. We’ve loved him and now we have to leave him, and are looking for his next loving owner. He’s a brilliant Volkswagen 1996 T4 Autosleeper conversion with a hard sided pop-top and just over 120K miles on his clock. He hasn’t broken down since I bought him in January [...]
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Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: The purpose and limits of KM
April 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
The next Gurteen Bristol Knowledge Cafe is going to be held in the ever-purposeful Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, on Thursday June 11th, from 18:30. The cafe proper will begin at 19:00 prompt. Local wise guy, innovation catalyst, and font of much knowledge Chris Dean has kindly agreed to share his thoughts on ‘The Purpose and [...]
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My Grandparents’ letters
April 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
For some time, we have been carting around a few suitcases of old family letters between various family homes. They are between my grandmother and grandfather and cover their courting (across the Atlantic – he in UK, she in US), their marriage (in UK) and the second world war (grandad in the navy). My mum [...]
Questions and answers
November 5th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
“… But be warned, first of all, that a man gets an answer to his questions in accordance with his fitness to understand and his own preparation…” From ‘The Food of Paradise’, approx 17th Century Persian tale
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Lessons not learnt
October 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
“What experience and history teach is this – that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” (Georg Wilhem Freidrich Hegel, Lectures On The Philosophy Of History, seen in The Guardian Weekend magazine, 11/10/08) Or as my friend Gary said recently while we [...]
Gurteen hits sixty
October 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Happy Birthday to David Gurteen, and his old but never jaded newsletter. One is 100 and the other is 60. Ever since I was first pointed to him (as ‘the competition’ no less), we have had what I consider to be open, interesting, honest, learning conversations. The topics and deals range from business to life, [...]
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Creating reality
October 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
(sign from The Big Green Gathering, 2006) There seems to be a lot of ‘interesting times’ going on at the moment, what with the whole ‘recession’ thing and USA elections and plenty of local stuff. We are bombarded by journalism that bandies a lot of baffling explanations around but doesn’t quite hit the spot, politicians [...]
Campaign for water fountains
October 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Katie and Tom and the Frank Water projects crew are looking for a volunteer to help them campaign to bring back public water fountains. Good news! Be done with this ridiculous bottled water nonsense! Here’s the blurb: FRANK Water Projects is looking for a volunteer to help us lead a local campaign to bring back [...]
Pervasive Media Studio open on Fridays
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Good news; the iShed team are opening the Pervasive Media Studio up on Fridays to anyone who wants to come and work there. It’s a great place to work and there are lots of good people to boot. I’ll be there. Here’s the blurb: Open Studio Fridays iShed have recently taken over the top floor [...]
Interesting games lab
March 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Simon and the iglab collective in Bristol are running another night of games, gaming, game theory and other stuff like that down at the Pervasive Media lab on Tuesday 11 March. Anyone can come and all are welcome. : This time it’s personal… thats not just hyperbole this month iglab has a theme. Personal relationships. [...]
