Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com - Digital Media Engineering ]

06/09/08 Some Browser Emotions

Exciting. Any information available to me. Dial-up noise. Directories. Yahoo. Altavista. Serif Fonts. GIF animations. Animated page loading N icon. Frames. Image place-holders. Learning HTML. Hitting refresh a lot. Send & Receive button. The world was mine to go get.

With Google Chrome out, I thought it worth remembering back to my first browser.

What emotions does do those splash screens bring out for you?

-Robin.

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06/09/08 Hans-Peter None of those things are “emotions”. Moron.[...] »

06/09/08 James Corbett That icon with the ship's wheel (helm?) is particularly nostalgic for me because[...] »

02/09/08 Travelling To London Today

DUBLIN, IRELAND - We’ll be in London tonight & tomorrow for the Seedcamp interviews. Probably not up for much more than grabbing some late food and chewing ears off rehearsing our presentation - here’s a taster (3 of 12 slides).

Back tomorrow night.

-Robin.

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05/09/08 Eoghan McCabe You're slides look great. Your passion for this will be clear to the judges. I'd[...] »

29/08/08 First-lifers At TechLudd Cork 2008

DUBLIN, IRELAND - I’m a firm believer of talking about your product as much as possible. The more people you explain it to, the more you tweak your message to improve it. Last night was the first in-person demo of our incident tracking for rescue teams app (the rest have been remote due to my travelling).

My first first-life meetings of Walter, Walter, James, Gavin, Ciara, Ashley, Donncha, Aileen, John, Pat, John & Gordon. Well worth the trip down.

Thanks to everyone for the grilling and the promised introductions!

I had a great meeting today in the hotel with some local rescue workers here in Cork, and am now in another hotel awaiting to meet some Coast Guard guys before my Sea Survival Course in the morning. The pool it’s in can simulate the following environmental conditions:

* Wave generator with variable setting
* Wind generated by large fans
* Rain sprinkler system
* Thunder and lightning using strobe lights and audio effects
* Day and night capability

Fun times!

-Robin.

(Image Credit: Donncha O’Caoimh, with more photos of the event and amazing plane themed CIA Hotel here.)

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29/08/08 Dave Jeffery Wish I could have made it, looked like an interesting event. The venue looked[...] »

28/08/08 Summer in Chicago, Boston, San Fran, Vegas…

DUBLIN, IRELAND - Summer in Chicago, Boston, San Fran, Vegas… all wrapped up in to 3mins 22 seconds.

Take it away vimeo:

America 2008 from Robin Blandford on Vimeo.

And while doing all that - I was building this.

-Robin.

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28/08/08 Wendy COOL! You've been to EVERYWHERE! And I'm glad that I am a part of your video, he[...] »

28/08/08 D4H Demo At TechLudd

DUBLIN, IRELAND - Honey I’m Home! Two years later and I’m back (for a short while). I’m giving the first demo of Decisions For Heroes at TechLudd Cork tomorrow/today/tonight (August 28th at TechLudd/Digital Media Forum Cork) in the Cork Airport Hotel.

Not from Cork? Excuse that you’ve no-where to stay? I’ve a spare bed in a triple room. Take it.

From Cork? See you there, no excuses.

-Robin.

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29/08/08 steph "I’ve a spare bed in a triple room. Take it." Did you get any interesting t[...] »