Monthly Archives: September 2007

Artsfest: Friday was a Blast

ArtsFest, Birmingham’s free arts festival (and Europe’s largest apparently, if that means anything) kicked off on Friday with a fantastic piece of performance art/theatre/engineering/pyrotechnics/steampunkery called Blast.
I have to say that I was thoroughly impressed with the event. Gaffer-taped together dead technology, a vast sprawling space on an ambitious scale, dirty soot-covered artists hammering away [...]

By stef | Posted September 15, 2007 in Arts, Birmingham | Comments (1)

Back from holiday - here are a couple of new sites

I’ve been away. I was attempting to have a holiday but generally failing due to the curse of the crackberry.
So before Artsfest kicks off this weekend I thought I’d download a few thoughts into a blog post before this place gets filled up with photos.
Before going away, we managed to get a couple of projects [...]

By stef | Posted September 14, 2007 in Arts, Birmingham, Blog | Comments (9)

Change your wireless router password right now

Yesterday I was honoured to attend my first School of Computer Science Industrial Advisory Board meeting at Birmingham University. Amongst the esteemed people I was mixing with I got talking at length to Andrew Watson from Object Management Group and the man behind no2id.net - a very convincing series of arguments on why the compulsory [...]

By stef | Posted September 5, 2007 in Articles | Comments (3)

Moseley Folk Festival is Lovely with a capital L

Today we took the day out and went to Moseley Folk Festival which is running in Moseley Private Park all weekend. In my situation as a new dad we had to leave early to keep the little one in her dinner/bath/bed routine, but that didn’t stop us enjoying the day.
It seemed to be populated with [...]

By stef | Posted September 1, 2007 in Birmingham, Music, folk | Comments (2)