Stoke-on-Trent news

I've produced my first video in a while on the back of my limited contribution to an effort to stop a power station being built in my back yard. There's quite a lot of shaky cam and some of the shots are less than perfect, but I hope to have used some music and decent edits to carry off a decent package of what we were trying to achieve. Let me know what you think...

In the past three days I've been to two conferences. One was the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in Kensington, the second was the Talk About Local Unconference 2009 at Staffordshire University.
It's going to take a bit of time to write up so here's the first part, devoted to the first day at Fowa...

FOWA 2009 - the Future of Web Apps

There is nothing as inspirational as the story of success, or so goes the theory behind trade and business conferences.

Here's my first fully-fledged voting package built in Flash. I accept there are plenty of rough edges, but it works, which is the main thing.

I know there's a cliche about Christmas seeming to start earlier every year, but it makes you wonder when you start seeing Santa Claus before the Back To School promotions.

I was just about to park in Cheadle for a spot of coffee at Moshi, and had turned into Cross Street when I saw the figure of the red-cloaked one in AC Bathrooms.

Protesters against the plans for a 1,000-Megawatt power station in Cresswell are staging a public meeting to draw up opposition plans.

Residents in the village are holding a meeting at the village hall at St Margaret's Church, Draycott, at 7pm on Wednesday August 12.

IT would appear that I've officially reached middle age. Not because of my age, you understand. In the same way that teenage boys in certain reach adulthood after strange rituals involving sharp sticks, fire and outstretched foreskins, the right-of-passage to the middle era in one's life would appear to protest against a development on one's doorstep.