Andy Roberts - Distributed Action Research with communities of practice and social objects

London Bike Hire Bicycles Arrive (0)

29/7/10 •

London Bike Hire Bicycles Arrive The London bike hire bicycles are arriving on the streets of London after some well publicised delays. The London scheme is much smaller than the Paris public bicyle hire scheme on which the idea is based, but at least it’s a start. “Barclays Cycle Superhighways” compared with the Paris scheme. [...]

Recent Posts

Giant Vampire Cricket Bites Man (5)

20/7/10 •

Sitting up late chatting with an old friend last week I saw a gigantic locust-like insect climbing up the kitchen wall. It was bright shiny green, about 10cm long and heading for the breakfast cereals. We decided it belonged outdoors so I put one hand over it and cupped it with the other and walked [...]

Podcast Live (1)

06/7/10 •

Following on from the Podcast idea a few weeks back I promised to post again telling you how to subscribe in iTunes or get the podcast automatically delivered to the podcast player of your choice. We’ve had four podcast prototypes broadcast and published already and the show is ready to go live on Tuesday July [...]

No Weekend Engineering Works (0)

28/6/10 •

Such is the routine nature of weekend engineering works ruining any prospect of going out around London on the public transport system that when they have a rare weekend without any engineering works on this particular line, National Express to Liverpool Street Station, they need to make a poster about it in order to remind [...]

Canal Boat Holidays (6)

27/6/10 •

Previous Canal Boat Holidays I’ve been going on canal boat holidays since a child, but none in the last few years and it has been long overdue to do something about that. The first trip I went on was a little Thames cruiser boat with my parents, before the locks were all manned. Then I [...]