Category Archives: geekery

What Type Of Geek Are You?

Posted on Saturday, 18th Jun 2011 by Caz M

Ampersandconf was held in Brighton at the Dome yesterday, and was an excellent one-day conference all about typography – perfect for that Type of geek! It wasn’t just focused on web typography, but brought together those from the printed world … Continue reading →

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Back To Basics

Posted on Monday, 18th Apr 2011 by Caz M

This year’s BarCamp Sheffield3 was billed as a back to basics affair. No sponsors, no food and drink, no schwag. Just the venue and the people. How would it work? The answer – pretty well! Originally I wasn’t sure I … Continue reading →

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Maker Faire Madness

Posted on Monday, 14th Mar 2011 by Caz M

I had the pleasure of attending the 2011 Maker Faire event in Newcastle over the weekend. It was a real geek-fest – with all sorts of mad inventions and sciency-crafty-creativity on show. Alistair was demonstrating his Newcastle Metro Simulator, and … Continue reading →

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Think Vis – The Aftermath

Posted on Tuesday, 8th Mar 2011 by Caz M

I attended Think Visibility for the first time last Saturday, as a photographer/AV tech/helper/lackey for Mr Hodge. It was hard work but fun, not least the sight of a cardboard cut-out Hodge verbally abusing people (thanks to some nifty soldering … Continue reading →

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What’s Up Next?

Posted on Tuesday, 1st Mar 2011 by Caz M

In days gone by, I used to keep across what was going on by looking at Upcoming. But since that fell out of favour with a critical mass of geeks, the new kid on the block is now Lanyrd, from … Continue reading →

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