The first events of the year that I organised for Notts/Derby BCS group went well and I’m hoping that this continues with the events over the next couple of months.

They are all held at the Long Eaton Novotel and are free to non-BCS members. If you want to come along please register first on our website so we have an idea of numbers. The next few meetings are:

• 15th March: Safe Disposal of IT equipment
• 19th April: Speed Networking!
• 17th May: Game-based learning
• 21st June: The Art of Productive Laziness

All meetings start at 18:30 and are at: Novotel, Bostock Lane, Long Eaton, NOTTINGHAM NG10 4EP (map)

Had to split a pdf into seperate jpg files for each page earlier and dug up my notes on how to do this.

Latest issue of the free online magazine BlenderArt is out…
ISSUE 25: Winter Wonderland
There is something mesmerizing about watching snow gently fall. The soft fluffy look as it piles up here and there. Then there are the lovely shades of blue that seem to paint winter landscapes in enchanting hues of winter chill. So while the weather outside is frightful, the articles and fun to be had inside are delightful.
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Latest issue of the free online magazine BlenderArt is out…
ISSUE 24: From out of the deep
From out of the Deep…conjures up images of all types of sea creatures, from the simple to the beautifully exotic. Dancing beams of light bouncing off of underwater life and hypnotic light patterns shimmering on the sea floor.
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Latest issue of the free online magazine BlenderArt is out…
ISSUE 23: Epic Fantasy
As excitement builds around the launch of the Durian Project, we decided to share in some of the fun and devote an issue to Epic Fantasy. This issue is filled with articles that are guaranteed to inspire you to start a few epics of your own.
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I managed to spill hot chocolate on my netbook on Friday. That’s the first time, and hopefully the last time, I’ve done that.

Fortunately it only went on the mousepad and the keyboard. I managed to get the mousepad working this morning but have had to order a new keyboard for it from ebay.

In the meantime I can use a usb keyboard.

I’m a bit late with this but anyway… you can get the latest issue of the free Blender magazine, BlenderArt #22, from their website here. This issue’s topic is “Things that go bump in the night!”

There’s a lot of people out there posting their SpeedTest.Net results so here’s mine, courtesy of the Warwick University Campus Network!

The incredible Wolfram Alpha computational knowledge search engine has gone live today to the public. It has answers to pretty much anything you can think of, and although it may not be able to explain the meaning of life or what you ate this morning it can still tell you that the temperature in Antartica when Kennedy died was -38F. Make sure you visit as it is amazing!

Elsewhere on the internet I came across (via everyjoe.com) a webpage with a few really impressive images comparing the earth to the sun, the sun to some bigger star and then the bigger star to the REALLY bigger stars. Makes you feel small but it definitely worth a look. The world we live in is truely amazing!

Of course you can get some interesting facts on these things from Wolfram Alpha here…

You can get the latest issue of the free Blender magazine, BlenderArt #21, from their website here. This issue’s topic is “Look What I Can Do!”