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Week #1274

Hello. It’s year end so we’ve been paper shuffling, identifying and bug tracking the odd anomaly in the accounts. It’s the kind of activity that’s crying out to be made more playful and interesting (a web service-cum-mech-turk like Mazuma perhaps?) because it really is so deathly dull that I’ve precious little incentive to do it. [...]

Week #1273

Near the studio there is a square of greying tarmac, scarred with the foundations of playground equipment long since removed and banked on three sides by a glorious wildflower border. I had thought that the display was an unintentional but welcome, showy demonstration of ground left wild. I  paused by the corner this week and [...]

Week #1270

Last week seem to have disappeared and we put this down to the crack we saw in the wall: Apart from noting fissures in the Universe, the last week has involved work on project Clarkston for Sheffield University Students’ Union and project Elgin which is our own Rattle ID project. This is real Elgin, and this [...]

Week #1267

As Rob mentioned in last week’s weeknotes, I’ve taken up the Pomodoro Technique of time management. I’m not sure that I’ve entirely mastered all the nuances and details of it yet (in particular I haven’t started keeping daily reports yet), but it does seem to work in helping achieve focus. The basic premise is to [...]

Week #1259

It’s been another short, four day week this week. And the weather has improved. Both of which have meant an upbeat and relaxed mood in the studio. Our two new projects have both kicked off and are enjoying their initial exploration and research phases. With Project Cromer (for Umbro), Rob continues to work on the [...]

Week #1256

We said last week that we’d experienced a “crescendo in activity”. Well, this week has felt even busier (although with less travelling). On Monday, the project we’ve codenamed ‘Hunstanton’ launched. It’s officially called My Life As An Object, and was commissioned by Renaissance East Midlands, part of the MLA. The premis of the project is to ‘bring [...]

Week #1254

Hello.  I’m writing this on Saturday morning and my brunch is waiting, so I’m going to be brief (I’m hungry). Frankie and Andrew were busy on three projects this week, one client piece and three pitches. Both proposals are really exciting, and I can hope they come off because they’ve put so much effort into [...]

Week #1253

The Rattle team have been out and about this week, Frankie and I attended the 2nd Linked Data Meetup and James went to find out more about the BBC @North initiative and down to Leicester to work on the Amplified Cities project.  We left Andrew to manage the delivery of the new Office Desk that [...]

Week #1251

The word of the week this week was “friction”. This was mostly caused by the impending talk that James was to give at the We Love Technology conference on Friday. His talk was titled We Are Friction, and you can go and read it over on his Technogoggles blog, which has been resurrected back into life (conferences [...]

Week #1192

We’ve spent a large chunk of this week writing proposals.  Two for unsolicited work and one for a big tender thingy. The proposal for the big tender thingy was tortuous, mainly because the thing had a language all of its own and because the requirements for the tender weren’t obvious – which was perhaps a [...]

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