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Unplugged: An attempt to spend a week working on battery and solar power (and a bit of charging from the car, and maybe a bit borrowed mains!)
As an experiment, even though i’m working mainly from home, to simulate working on the road, I thought I would see if it’s possible to work…
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Rick on the Road – New blog about mobile working
I’ve started a new blog covering my experiments with mobile working – from working in cafe’s and the garden to planned road trips. I’ll be covering…
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Working on a dell mini 10
I’ve bought a dell mini 10 netbook as a “fallback” machine for the road trip. I usually work from a macbook, but wanted a second machine,…
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Using a Powergorilla to power and charge a macbook.
First test – does it charge at all? Yes. Using the magsafe “sample” powertraveller sent me and with the power gorilla set to 16 volts, it…
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You know what I did last summer?
Last summer I was freelancing for the lovely Team Rubber, when I overheard one of the film making dept say “Now we just need a skateboarder…
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Experiments with the solar gorilla
I read loads of reviews of the <a href=”solar gorilla before taking the plunge and buying one. I payed particular attention to mentions of the macbook…
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Working from the VW dealership
One of the things I need to get sorted on the beetle before the road trip is an intermittent problem where the immobilizer won’t allow me…
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Preparation – keeping a laptop charged on the move
I have been buying and experimenting with some equipment to help keep my laptop charged while i’m away from mains electricity. I have few tools at…
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Aardman Timmy Time
Yesterday the www.timmytime.tv was was finally launched. I worked on this project along with the Aardman digital team building a bespoke php CMS and putting the…
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Helping Aardman/ OTC Productions with Digital Asset Management
My web development career has taken another slight change in direction – i’ll be working for the next few months over at Aardman Features helping with…
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Wallace and Gromit get google doodled
Last week I helped aardman digital set up the Wallace and Gromit site to cope with a huge traffic spike resulting from the 20th anniversary site…
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New dshed.net site launched
This week we launched the new dshed.net – an “online showcase of creative work, commissions, talks, artist journals, festival diaries, research and archive projects” by the…