Chris Sparshott

Vimeo have a plug-in for facebook, I have embedded the short video off their site – go and check it out its pretty cool.

dananananananana Facebook! from Blake Whitman on Vimeo.

My old man (dad) wanted to know how to be a bit more relaxed in his everyday life. Even though he is retired he still thinks about things and gets worried and stressed.
I went through a phase about 3 years ago where I was very stressed all the time, pains in chest, not sleeping, [...]

So I have never been a user of LinkedIn. up until last week. I think that LinkedIn is a way of dealing with business contacts so I am trawling through all my business cards from the last year or so and trying to connect to them in LinkedIn. I have no [...]

I have been doing some investigation into twitter clients and I just wanted to share with you a few useful links.
Lotus Notes Twitter Client

Lotus Notes Twitter Client video

A review of available twitter clients
Using Adobe Air – Twirl

Using Adobe Air – Tweet-r includes file transfer
and of course those clients provided by twitter for download.
Go check them [...]

I am currently pulling together a presentation for my enterprise to talk about twitter and how I think it will impact two areas, Telcos and Message bus software.
As part of my research I have found the brilliant video from common craft. if you have ever wonndered what twitter is all about this video does [...]

In reference to the article in the provided link using twitter as a public announcement system is an interesting advance. It does open up the possibilities of Twitter as a stateless Low QoS message bus.

After bathing our baby girl I took upon myself the task of seeing if Neutral buoyancy of a small plastic duck was achievable. After a period of time I videoed the scientific results for you enjoyment and education.
Go the duck.

In a news story this evening on One News in New Zealand there is a school in Hamilton that has a mobile phone in every classroom. The purpose of this mobile phone is for students to call home when they have done something good or bad in school. This program has helped motivate students to perform.

My most favourite comedian is Eddie Izzard and I just wanted to share with you one of his funniest moments. I have embedded the video below with some great lego animation that brings the sketch to life.

As a Web 2.0 guy I try to spend a bit of time everyday looking at Web 2.0 sites to grow my knowledge and understanding of changes in the cloud. I found this great music site called imeem. I am sure all you Web 2.0 folk know it but I love it!!! As a huge Snow Patrol fan I loved this play list and track 3 in particular as shown below.