In ‘the old days’ a community mean the people who lived near you. Perhaps the residents of your town and its outlying manor houses, a group of nearby villages or a part of a city. People talked to their neighbours and got things done together, whether that was campaigning to get a new park bench or standing next to each [...]

I spent the day today in Bath at the UK’s first Rails Girls event. It was run as part of Bath Digital Festival by some lovely, friendly coders. Rails Girls started in Finland, and is a one-day event to teach women of all ages the basics of coding in Ruby and using the Rails framework to create web apps. From [...]

In yet another 2012 annual roundup post, I wanted to document some of the artsy, fun things I saw in 2012. It didn’t quite fit into one a month, but here’s a selection anyway. Classical Club Night (January) Young performers associated with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Rambert Dance Company performed Trapeze, an early ballet score by Prokofiev, in the Clore Ballroom [...]

In the first of my roundup of the year posts, I’m had a look of which iPhone and iPad apps I’ve used most this year and the ones I’d recommend. Without further ado… Super Jetpack Penguin Game / iPhone / Free What is it? In Super Jetpack Penguin you need to help the penguin eat as many fish as possible [...]

A frying pan is a totally legitimate weapon A chameleon is a sensible pet and source of life guidance You can tell she’s the villain, she’s got dark hair You can raise $10m by putting on a show (if only that worked in theatre!) if you’re live action, it’s not ok to kiss, just dance it’s possible to sightread a [...]

Cardiff seems to be full of art and design at the moment. Artes Mundi 5, Made in Roath 2012 and Cardiff Contemporary are all on at the moment. The 2012 Cardiff Design Festival, has also recently taken place. I didn’t manage to get to as many design festival events as I’d have liked to this year, mostly due to my being [...]