Adam Tinworth

Beach (plant) Life

One of my favourite features of Shoreham Beach is its plant life. As barren as it looks in winter, come the spring it burts into a riot of colour and life. I missed the best of it this year, but I thought even the fading beauty of early summer was worth recording:

 

Dealing with gang social media culture…

So this is the challenge to RSA Fellows: As well as wanting to use Fellowship as a way of making the world a better place, you are innovative and many of you experts in social media. How about a group of Fellows putting together a Catalyst bid for seed funding to develop a social enterprise addressing this issue and offering services to local and police authorities? Such a bid could seek to engage the support and skills of staff in our John Adam Street Projects team who are expert in social network mapping.

via www.matthewtaylorsblog.com

I'm a Fellow. I know a thing or two about social media. It's a great idea for a project.

Do I have time…?

Hmm.

Capturing a Summer's moment by the Thames

I'm having one of those days, looking forward to a free hour or so, sandwiched between a day's working on a report for work, and an evening raiding with my Warcraft guild.

However, I grabbed a little time over lunch to edit and upload a little video I shot while walking along the Thames on Friday evening, on the way to meeting friends in a pub. It was a glorious, sunny, summer's evening, and it felt just wonderful to be meandering along the river amongst the rush of Friday night humanity. Here's my attempt to capture it:

 

I'm really enjoying creating these little "video photographs" of an experience, a moment in time, even if no-one else cares. :)

Sunday on the Beach

Should a Snow Lion be preferable...

There are also a couple of changes that long time OS X users might find irksome: no indication of what apps are running in the Dock, and "natural" scrolling.

via www.scottexplains.com

Noted here for my own reference if these two things drive me crazy.

Lion's Roar…

When a new iteration of an operating system releases, the wise and prudent thing would be to wait and see what happens when other people install it.

I appear to have misplaced my wisdom and prudence. ;-)

Piegate: the people who rise

I'm quietly fascinated by this "piegate" animated Gif of the attack on Rupert Murdoch yesterday:

Mostly, I'm fascinated about the fact that the only two people who rise to their feet on the "inquisition" side of the room are both women - I'd be fascinated to know if that's just conincidence, or if there's some difference in the psychology of men and women that cause the different reaction.