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What’s in a name?
that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet Naming things is hard. The English language is imprecise and often hazy. People can interpret things differently, meanings can change and confusion can reign. I quite like this. There is a growing backlash(?) against the words that pretty much define my career these…
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Weeknotes S3e01
This is going to be my third go at doing personal, public weeknotes. I did it at Jisc and at ONS for six or seven months (before I switched to doing team notes on the work blog). This week I started my new job at the Environment Agency. Though I am working on a Defra…
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Internet of Public Service Jobs — 11/09/16
‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, development and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Some really interesting looking jobs doing the rounds this week — obviously [8] is a bit of a wildcard but can imagine a lot of…
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Internet of Public Service Jobs — 04/09/16
‘Internet of Public Service jobs’ is a weekly list of vacancies related to product management, user experience, development and design in…you guessed it…the ‘internet of public service’ curated by @jukesie every Sunday. Took a bit of digging around this week but I think it ended up being a pretty interesting list again. All the major…
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Beyond Banksy: Growing up with Graffiti in Bristol. Ignite Swansea #1
It should have gone something like this.. This is the old Children’s Hospital in Bristol — it was replaced by somewhere significantly more modern in 2001 but in the 80s this was it. I spent about a decade as an outpatient — sometimes needing to make weekly visits. It was on one of those regular trips though that my…