My birthday afternoon tea with library mates

Afternoon tea at Le Favorite's

YOU TUBE

How to waste a lot of time...

Look at a bunch of stuff on You Tube!
ok, sure, you can look up stuff that will help you become a rocket scientist too, yawn.

Flickr

We are amused. (photo by koller93)

Wiki itty woo

I have learned something about Wikis today. I'm trying to get my head around it, but it feels like my brain is leaking.

Are they just online website templates that you fill up with content? great potential for collaboration.

Some company is happy to host your content, much like google is happy to host your blog. Zoho, for instance, provides online free wiki software and provides free hosting. You kind of have to hope that their servers will be there forever or else you lose everything.

I guess alternatively you can serve the wiki yourself, keeping the content in your own control. Sheesh, if you go down that road, why not call it a website.

Another day at the office

I don't work in an office, it's really an unusual combination of building
spaces. All connected on the inside. On the outside it appears to be about
6 separate buildings, from different eras.

Owlbot!

Introducing OWLBOT. An owl robot covered in layers of palladium leaf, some pure silver mesh wiring, and crystal clear ears for good radio reception.

Palladium is a cool metal, more expensive than gold and does some interesting things in the flame and in the kiln. It has an extremely high melting temperature, so it doesn't vaporise like gold or silver in my torch flame. It has kind of a matte finish but as you turn it in the light it reflects different metallic colours, like gold, green, blue and pink. It's cool.

I'm going to make a bunch of these owlbots and inscribe a series number in roman numerals on the bottom edge. This fellow is OWLBOT I

The Beginning

In the beginning there was an owl (bead), it was made of glass and many people wanted it. He may not seem much now but he was a start.

Maybe there's something about this fella that can go even further, maybe there can be enough owls for EVERYONE!

Since the first, there have been over 150 owls and a lot of progress. This is my website, which has lots of photos.