Friday, May 25, 2007
I’m talking at Reboot next week in Denmark. My topic is Quantum Mechanics and Web Design: GUTs, Strings, Architecture and Theories of Everything. And I quote myself…
The story of modern physics is one about the search for a Theory of Everything. Researchers are striving to have one explanation for everything that happens in the real world, all the way from galactic black holes down to the underlying quantum foam. Along the way bizarre theories are spawned, some work, some fail, some survive by just being too weird to even test.
When designing and building stuff for the web we use a whole variety of approaches, theories, processes and methodologies. Is there a Grand Unifying Theory to link all aspects of web design together? Is there a Theory of Everything for the Web?
Heh heh, I’ve never quoted myself before. I hope it doesn’t become a habit.
I was also just interviewed about this for a podcast by Nicole Simon.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
The Watershed filmed me whilst I was talking about Web Design and I’m now available to watch as a streaming quicktime movie.
The slides dont come out very well in the movie, so you can maybe download them and click along with me.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
But not forever. I should so be playing Alice Cooper right now!
I made it through to the end of the teaching year, I’ve just given my final lecture and tutorials. Mind you I still have about 2 weeks of marking ahead of me 
Weirdly it feels anticlimactic. I had thought that there should be a big bang at the end of the year and a bit of shouting going on, but it’s all just sort of fizzled out. The jungle is very quiet! Too quiet! The natives might be restless… but I think they’re all just quietly studying. Or lying in the sun as I used to do in the weeks leading up to exams.
I’ve not blogged much recently, though I’ve been intending too. The workload of the last few months has just wildly overtaken me. Far too many nights working till 3am, far too many weekends worked… But enough navel-gazery and meta-blogging. I have a summer of fun ahead of me, good working hours and that mysterious thing called Research to discover. I’m all tingly and excited, but first I have to go and quietly sit in the sun.
