As a festive entry on eightbar this year, let’s talk about Christmas lights. Twitter-controlled ones! Andy Stanford-Clark hooked up a set of lights to Twitter. As reported in Computer Weekly: Using some clever IBM middeware, The microcontroller sets the illumination colour based on a signal from the internet or via SMS over a GSM network [...]

Today is a day of mixed emotions. Today I resigned from IBM having been there for 18 years, 19 if you count my year out from university. In all that time I have worked with some great people, and felt a tremendous sense of belonging. Its been quite a journey, both in technical education and [...]

 The last few days fellow eightbar  Andy Piper had pointed out that he was approaching 1,000 followers on twitter and that I was a tad behind him. We ended up engaging in a “first to 1,000 though it does not really matter or mean anything, conversation is about quality… etc” competion. Something happened somewhere, I [...]