Saturday, 30 July 2011

This blog has moved

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I am no longer using this blog. It has moved to my new blog at http://blog.alexbowyer.com/ Please update your bookmarks.
Friday, 15 April 2011

Review of Hanna (2011) - spoiler-free

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Normally when I like a movie, the first thing I do when I get home from the cinema is to jump online and see what other people have sai...
Thursday, 17 February 2011

Two months later: Still addicted

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Well, it's been a couple of months since I returned to Facebook & Twitter after my one-month hiatus ( plan here , results here ). ...
Sunday, 5 December 2010

The November Project: Observations from a month away from Facebook and Twitter

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Well, it's December now, and that means it must be time for me to jump back onto Facebook and Twitter. But before I do, I wanted to gat...
Friday, 3 December 2010

Is the #turnred (RED) "AIDS-free generation by 2015" campaign lacking something?

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As you may know, it was World AIDS Day yesterday, raising awareness of the global fight to eradicate the HIV/AIDS disease. I missed the da...
Saturday, 6 November 2010

Who says America is the most unhealthy? This is how Canadians roll..

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via youtube.com Here is the so-called "Epic Sandwich", including bacon, poutine, eggs, hot dogs (including their own rolls) ...
Sunday, 31 October 2010

The November Project: No Facebook and Twitter for a month

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I've decided to do something unusual for November. For the whole month I'm going to give up Facebook, Twitter and a few associated ...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010

The tragedy of electronic communication

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via youtube.com Here's a bittersweet little "could-have-been love story" I came across on YouTube. It's amusing to ...
Monday, 13 September 2010

Reverse culture shock - Ten observations of a Canadian Brit visiting the UK

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I spent last week in the UK (for the HCI 2010 conference) and having spent a year and a half in Canada, for the first time I felt somethin...
Thursday, 19 August 2010

The Complete History of the Soviet Union, with Tetris as Melody and Metaphor

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via youtube.com Ever since I heard this, I can't get it out of my head. Incredibly catchy, but more than that, it's incredibly...
Friday, 9 July 2010

Tweeting from the air

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See and download the full gallery on posterous Eric is taking Mrs Alex and I for a flight to celebrate our anniversary. Beautiful views ...
Friday, 7 May 2010

What would have happened last night if we'd had proportional representation in the #ukelection?

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I thought I'd try my hand at a little number crunching. Based on the figures from the BBC Election Website , I've made a couple of ...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010

The Story of Stuff: Why our entire economy is engineered to destroy the planet

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via thestoryofstuff.com Environmental pollution, planned obsolence, manipulative advertisting, toxic incineration, it's all here. If you...
Friday, 16 April 2010

Another moment of minor celebrity!

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(Video temporarily disabled as it kept autoplaying. Watch it via justin.tv At Twitter's first developer conference, Chirp , Brady Forr...
Thursday, 25 March 2010

Avril Lavigne, Justin Bieber, Nelly Furtado, Nikki Yanofsky and many more in Canada's answer to Band Aid

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via youtube.com In the same vein as Band Aid's Do they Know it's Christmas, a huge number of Canadian singers including Avril...