The power of mobile devices...

It occurred to me that I've not really posted much on my blog, so here comes some more...

I was looking through my usual RSS feeds and came across a feature on Engadget (for those of you not familiar with Engadget it's a great way to see what's happening in the world of technology). Anyway, the article (click here) describes how Looktel have developed some software that literally performs "artificial vision." Running on a Windows mobile SmartPhone, the software uses the on board camera to recognize objects and text. There is a YouTube demo on their website (here)that shows just how powerful this stuff is... it will recognize groceries, shops, read newspaper and magazine articles and read these aloud... amazing. Designed to help those who are visually impaired, this is just the sort of thing the Charity I'm a Trustee of should be looking into...

Second post

I've uploaded the customary photograph (and I'm very grateful to my friend and photographer, Nigel Bruce, for doing the honours) and added a a few more details about me.

I'll add a few more here too...

Last week, I attended the thought provoking and very interesting UCISA Annual Management conference in Harrogate, where I was promptly elected to the Executive Committee as chair of the Infrastructure Group. For those of you who don't know about UCISA, it's a body that represents the Information Services needs of universities and colleges in the UK. You can find out more here.

My First Post

Well, I have been meaning to set up a blog for what seems like an eon now. At last I've got as far as my first post. I hope this will be the beginning of something useful. Useful to me (so I can record my mindless blather in one place. And maybe useful to others, should my blatherings prove to have some relevance after all! So, I'll post this for now and go an hunt down a photo so you can see who I am. Then I'll try and add a little more detail of things that I'm interested in and, most important of all, I shall try and keep this up to date!