So, what’s happening?

Welcome to my audit trail… via the menus above you’ll find the projects I’m working on (and have worked on), teaching / supervision responsibilities, publications, and everything else… well… it’s the ultimate answer. Latest posts are grouped below so you can see what’s new… click on headings for the full post detail. Share and enjoy!

News Items

Nominated for “Most Uplifting Staff Member”

Posted on May 1, 2012 by ian

…which was nice! Thank-you to the students on CM2302 for that – uplifted me in return. The “Enriching Student Life Awards” are run by Cardiff University Student’s Union, and are optional for students to nominate staff – so nice to … (Cont.)

Beyond Presentation : 3D in HTML Slides

Posted on April 17, 2012 by ian

Beyond Presentation : 3D in HTML Slides, Marc Petit, Christophe Mouton and Ian Grimstead. In Proceedings of Declarative 3D for the Web Architecture (Dec3D2012), published at CEUR-WS, 17th April 2012, Paris, France. (Cont.)

TXT Outside

Posted on February 11, 2012 by ian

This Saturday, the BBC Big Screen in The Hayes, Cardiff will again play host to a TXT2 session for the public to text back their thoughts and mesages. This is the culmination of the Beacons for Wales sponsored TXT2 project, … (Cont.)

Moving to HPC Wales…

Posted on February 1, 2012 by ian

I’m now based at HPC Wales, the multi-university collaboration that is bringing new High Performance Computing capabilities to Wales. We’re working to join the gap between academia and business, bringing new skills to Wales. I am still lecturing this semester, … (Cont.)

Welsh Crucible News Article

Posted on January 30, 2012 by ian

My contribution to the Welsh Crucible series of articles in the Western Mail is now printed, and is also available online. The full set of articles is collected on the Welsh Crucible website. This year’s Welsh Crucible is now open … (Cont.)

White Noise

Not *strictly* a cake, but…

Posted on November 9, 2011

Well, it was carved in a similar way… this year’s tip? Use a potato peeler, then you can reveal the white flesh of the pumpkin, giving you three “colours” to play with!

Big pumpkin munching an apple, with a suspiciously looking worm in the apple...

Tasty!

iTunes Update Failure Caused by Apple Software Updater

Posted on October 12, 2011

Apple Software Updater (ASU) failed on me – also iTunes failed to install. Turns out that iTunes also tries to install Apple Software Updater, so that was explained. Turned out that ASU couldn’t uninstall the previous version – and nor could I, via the control panel! MSICUU2 was the weapon of choice… see my full post for the story of how it was fixed…

WiiMotes and drivers.

Posted on July 21, 2011

Argh. Top tip – bluecove works like a charm under Linux, but too tricky under windows. I got as far as building x64 variant from the sources, but major issues with JNI calling vnprintf etc – turns out it won’t support the Microsoft stack fully anyway, you need widcomm (broad com) hardware… So futile anyway.

To get linux working – you also sneakily need blues development libraries installed. Then it all works magically – otherwise complains it can’t find bluecove_x64 – which it can, it just can’t load it due to other .so missing…

Cakes again…

Posted on June 26, 2011
Fire station cake...

Where's Jupiter?

They’re all on the main Cakes page, but couldn’t resist flagging one up on the front page for a change…

Android SDK won’t install?

Posted on June 22, 2011

…it appears that way with Windows 7 64-bit and latest Android SDK (r11). You’ll hit the “Cannot find JDK” – even though one is installed.

Solution? Hit “Back” then “Next”… and suddenly everything works. Most odd. See page on stackoverflow…