Edinburgh entrepreneurship blog Startup Cafe just published my article about Scottish gaming magazine (and University of Edinburgh start-up company) SquareGo.
Some facts that didn’t make the final cut:
1. SquareGo’s Managing Editor Josh Wilson was recently arrested in Cuba for crimes unknown. He has since been released and has not been charged with anything. The police have explained that it was a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and Josh has gained one heck of a story for his grandchildren. continue reading »
We’re revamping our website at work. It’s a big job. The developers are furiously coding. We’re drafting lists of keywords to spread liberally through the new web copy. I’m organising a photoshoot to provide new stock photos for the page.
So far, everything seems to be going smoothly. The developers have given us some mock-ups and the new site looks great. They’ve even managed to incorporate some of the features from a paper and glue collage I made to represent the new home page. It’s a good thing too. I spent hours cutting little buttons and menu bars out of my National Geographics. continue reading »
Having lost almost everything from my laptop has some upsides. Since the machine’s reincarnation, I’ve been digging through closets and boxes for old CDs, trying to piece together a sort of hodgepodge backup for everything that was lost.
So far, I’ve unearthed my teenage music collection, including They Might Be Giants, Savage Garden and Matchbox 20. I found a disc from my trip to eastern Germany, with pictures of me in Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig. Most exciting was the re-discovery of my graduation PowerPoint, including a brief photo history of the first 18 years of my life, complete with a Five For Fighting soundtrack. continue reading »
My job has just taken me to new and exciting frontiers: Filmmaking.
I borrowed a snazzy webcam from SIE headquarters to take some footage of the Enterprise Expo, which was held in June. We’d worked for months to put the event together, to showcase 50 companies founded by University of Edinburgh students, staff and alumni. I was determined to get some of it on film so we’d have a record of how it turned out. continue reading »
