Talking, teaching and documenting. Especially using mobile tools. Running workshops and consulting worldwide with a focus on social technology.
Humans have been protecting their feet with some kind of covering for at least 26,000 years. Some studies of the bones of ancient humans suggest as long as 40,000 years. The Egyptians were the first to take this seriously, creating pads of leather or papyrus bound to the foot with two straps. Depending on region [...]
When I added ‘Customize a motorbike’ to my #40at40 list I was not thinking of any motorbike. I was of course thinking of my own. As I touched upon in a previous blog post, some people change their motorbike every year. If a bike is well looked after, the trade-in price or money from a [...]
I don’t grow a beard. Thankfully it grows itself. This allows me to achieve something visible to all with very little effort on my part. I like it. It’s a mask, its warm in winter, handy with an open face helmet on a motorbike and often it gives people the wrong impression of me. And [...]
My full 40at40 list is here on OurManInside.com This blog text is taken from here For me my ’40 at 40′ list is an excuse to do forty crazy or unusual things in a year where people think I might perhaps be losing the plot. If it’s on a list it’s premeditated and can’t be confused with those [...]
Last night I crawled into bed with my kindle and couldn’t help but notice my little reading light was lying in two pieces on the bedside table. I assumed that like me, my little boy has a keenness to take things apart to see how they work. At two and a half though, taking things apart means [...]
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ~ Thomas Carlyle Growing up in the countryside, my play area had more than it’s fair share of shacks, sheds and shelters. The tool shed was my favourite. Old tools and new. Some ancient and still going strong. Older and [...]
I can’t remember the amount of times I have pestered Audioboo for features I think they should implement. They put them on the ‘special ideas board’ of which I feel I now have my own section. Many of the ideas the community put forward seem to be implemented. Many of mine must be a bit too weird [...]
Back in 1986 my paper round money went on a copy of John ‘Lofty’ Wiseman’s SAS Survival Handbook. I still have it. I’d managed to get a copy just before it was banned. Shortly after it was revised without the mantraps and chemical concoctions. All the bits we would talk about at school. I had [...]
The other night I really enjoyed listening to the blues band ‘Split Whiskers‘. Especially the harmonica player who had a great sound thanks to a little handheld mic called the ‘Harmonica Honker‘. I have a mic called the Green Bullet but it’s heavy and cumbersome and gets in the way of playing. Looking around online there are [...]
In September this year the Stop The War coalition will be 10 years old. I took the three photos on this page on the 15th of February 2003 in London and they’ll soon appear in a book marking the 10th anniversary of ‘STW’s’ activities. At the time it was deemed to be the UK’s largest ever [...]
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