Having broadband restored (as of yesterday) I’ve no excuse for ongoing online neglect. If the word ’roundup’ is a turn-off for you then click away now.
Projects
Having done the courses, read the books I decided to take the time to see what I could make out of the original Bodtracker idea that had long been itching for my full attention. I renamed it Bodder and got stuck in. I wanted to find the flaws in the idea and kick myself well outside the comfort zone that academia affords.
On the basis that you learn by your mistakes and time is money I wanted my entrepreneurial education hard and fast. I gave myself 6 months and learnt a lot about myself, other people and how things get going. It clarified an awful lot for me and is really going to take a series of posts to do it any kind of justice. Nudge me.
Once I’d pushed that as far as my bank would let me, I got back to regular work. I soon got lucky with a cutting-edge project driven by infectious passion which aims to do something unique and valuable. Trips to Lancaster, Paris and Helsinki convinced me this stuff has massive potential. Now the learning curve is levelling out I’m enjoying making major contributions to the development and direction of the project.
Local geekery
Next week Birmingham bloggers celebrate the first anniversary of their formation into an IRL social crowd organised via Facebook at the start of the year and groomed by Twitter following its second big push at SXSW in May. Highlights of the new-found connectivity included Pete’s eyebrows, the blogging bus driver, the coworking crawl and #twitpanto. There’s certainly a whole bunch of other stuff I’ve missed but you can’t be everywhere, ambient intimacy or no.
All the other stuff
Reflections on Eggheads, the engaging number 33 and other personal non-geekiness to appear elsewhere. Consider this a virtual clearing of the throat as I recklessly pledge to spout off more.  If nothing else, I want to chase niggling ideas out my head, nail the buggers and check I can still write something other than code.