Category Archives: Life

The year that was… 2011

With just a few days left of 2011, no better time than now to look back and get some perspective on what happened this last year and where things are going. There’s been quite a few changes for me personally, one of which was the distinct lack of speaking engagements I took on this year. read more »

I’m joining Google

I’m excited to finally be able to make the announcement… I’ve been offered a position at Google UK, working out of their London office as a Rich Media Flash Developer in Dynamic Ads, Media and Platforms Solutions. Few people knew this was on the table, so it may come as a bit of a surprise read more »

Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Flash community – moments of 2009

With just a few days left in 2009, I wanted to post some moments this year that stuck with me: Discussion about Fx prefix versus namespaces in Flex 4 Flex Builder to get renamed to Flash Builder Fantastic first edition of Flash at the Lake in Zurich, Switzerland Carlos Ulloa speaks at TEDGlobal Summer of read more »

T-shirt for life auction

Its that time of year again and decided to contribute in my own little way to the “Music for Life” campaign and help in the battle against malaria in Africa. I’ve put up an eBay auction where you can bid to win the chance to determine what t-shirt I’ll be wearing at my next speaking read more »

TEDIndia in 10 quotes

Its an impossible task to adequately summarize all the ideas and inspiration of this last week at TEDIndia in Mysore. Here are ten quotes – in no particular order – from various talks (attributed where I remember who said it) that stuck in my mind and are worth sharing.   “Getting more, from less, for read more »

Impressions of the Somnathpur Keshava Temple

Earlier this week I visited the 13th century Keshava temple in Somnathpur, about an 1.5 hour drive from Mysore. One of only a few remaining temples of this era, it really has some exquisite architecture. If you’re every in the area, its well worth a visit. The site is now being maintained by the Archaeological read more »

TEDIndia – summary of day 1

Today was day 1 of the main TEDIndia event. I’ve been at the wonderful Infosys Mysore campus since Monday and have met some truly extraordinary people. I couldn’t help but write a quick summary of todays sessions and what inspired me most. Credit: TED / James Duncan Davidson Usha Uthup, legendary Indian pop singer, opened read more »

Looking at the next few months

The last two months have been hectic to say the least attending and speaking at conferences in Singapore, Brighton and Los Angeles and most recently giving some workshops in London. I’m looking forward to settling down in India to start a new chapter and get Project Cocoon off the ground. Before that though, one more read more »

Looking forward…

I just wrapped up a fascinating 6 months as a lecturer to first year “Digital Design and Media” students at the Technical University College of West-Flanders. If there’s something I’ve recognized from my time there is that passion and commitment are determining factors for being successful in what you do. There certainly was no lack read more »

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