Students at Warwick university had a 48 hour games coding competition. I was asked to judge the results, here is what I had to say.

I organised a fund raising ‘BAKING DAY’ for charity at work yesterday (in Hursley) to raise money for Children In Need. It was a brilliant day, so many people brought in home-baked goodies, cakes, muffins, cookies, biscuits, brownies, fudge etc and we sold them ALL. We raised quite a lot of money and had [...]

At the moment almost nobody uses Linux on their desktop; even in Hursley. Windows is everywhere but in the short time that I have worked here (~ a year), I have noticed a difference! Linux desktops are definately increasing in number.
I certainly wouldn’t recommend that most people install Linux, Windows is (in my opinion) currently [...]

Hursley has a fireworks display every year to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night. Most of the people who work at the Hursley lab seem to go to it and it’s a pretty cool event. Should have some video online soon, but for now here’s a great picture that Rob took.