What is a Girl Geek Dinner, and why the hell am I going? Girl Geek Dinners were started in London in 2005 by Sarah Blow with the idea of getting together with other females involved or interested in technology. Always held in a pub, bar or restuarant and usually have a speaker or chosen topics. [...]

I guess it’s only to be expected that in a city with two buildings that begin with ‘Web’ the taxi driver is going to end up taking you to the one that is twice as far as the one you want to go to. I was taken to Webprint rather than Webworks, which I could [...]

Travis Ruse is one of my heroes and I’m so glad to have found him again. This guy pretty much single handedly inspired me to start my photoblog (as well as others, though he was my first and always favourite photoblogger), and subsequently this text blog, as well as a significant contribution to my interest [...]

I still can’t believe that I use a Mac sometimes. Even after owning one for 6 months. I was something I never, ever, thought I would do. I Always hated Macs. I’ll start off by saying that, yes, it has crashed a few times, the occasional Kernel Panic, the odd application crash etc. However, these [...]

My first experience of an unconference was BarcampBelfast in June followed by CreativecampBelfast in September. Each one has been fun, informative. For those unaware, an unconference is a “participant-driven conference centered around a theme or purpose. The term “unconference” has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid one [...]

The Belfast tech community got together on Saturday for another one of the increasingly frequent local tech events. Of course this one was open to all creative-types, being called CreativeCamp gives that away a little, unfortunately though, there is still some work to be done to show the other creative industries how useful open events [...]

I will admit that it is important, although the chaos that resulted after Gmail went down for an hour or so (for some, longer) last night was quite surreal. Thousands of tweets, widespread panic, and even an article to mark the occasion. “productivity up of 20 million people” – Techcrunch Though for many people, this [...]

“Most definitely NOT fail” – Davymac First, a huge thank you and congratulations to Andy who very successfully pulled of the organisation of Barcamp on Saturday. Though it wasn’t without miniature disasters and minor fallbacks, which Andy has raised. Having said that, problems were minor and overcome with the help of understanding participants and attendees, [...]

What is Barcamp? BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats. Interested? Belfast Barcamp is being held tomorrow, Saturday 21st June at Queens University Belfast, Peter Froggatt Centre, from 9am-5pm. To [...]

So as you probably know, I recently made the transition from Windows to MacOSX. Having only used friends’ Macs, very infrequently and only first in late 2007, I managed to be convinced that ‘mac-is-best’ fairly quickly. Having used Windows for all these years (im going with since I was 8, so at least 14 years), [...]