All posts of Ian

Spam giving rise to new-breed A.I.?

It is Christmas and I exercise my right to wave my hands in the air, tell a story and make a bold prediction. You may exercise your right to comment and tell me just what you think of my idea. During this year, especially whilst growing ShowMeDo, we’ve had to contend with a rise in […]
18 years ago

Christmas wishes

Right, no posts for absolutely ages…that’s because our ShowMeDo.com is growing really rather nicely. So well in fact that as of January, backed by a bank-loan, I’ll be working 50% time on growing the site, attracting more authors and adding in a few sensible revenue ideas to make the company grow in a sustainable way. […]
18 years ago

Forty-thousand ShowMeDos served

Crikey, we’re rocketing forward, we passed forty-thousand downloads last week with the addition of David Rawlinson’s three Car Maintenance videos. Now we’re up to 53 videos from 14 contributors, with 34 requests receiving votes for future videos. Not bad for evenings and weekends! I hope to start posting more tidbits on how to make screencasts […]
18 years ago

36,806 ShowMeDo Downloads

Well, that’ll be another milestone met for sure. 36,806 ShowMeDo videos downloaded since we started recording on January 1st with 2,669 of those in just the previous week. It is very good to see Kyran’s wxPython ‘hello world‘ introduction in the list, as it hasn’t yet been added to the main wxPython site – but […]
18 years ago

Cool new ShowMeDo – Make your own BushFinger art

My good friend and local artist Shardcore has made us a ShowMeDo on how to make your own BushFinger art-piece. His 10 minute video is superb and his site has all the necessary back-ground material (details here).
18 years ago

My First Wikipedia Edit

I have been using Wikipedia for years and have always wanted to contribute – and I never knew how easy it could be. Having noticed that the Wikipedia entry for Star Trek mentioned: A common and fondly-held superstition among fans is that the even-numbered Star Trek films are superior to the odd-numbered Star Trek films […]
19 years ago

ShowMeDo Updates

Our ShowMeDo.com is growing nicely. We have 23 videos, 4 from contributors, with 3 new videos to add (using Java in Eclipse from John Montgomery). We’ve also getting great interest from visitors who want to make new videos – most cool! Some of the offers we’ve had include videos for open source audio/video tools like […]
19 years ago

Back from skiing in Canada

Ok, so I’ve been quiet for a while. I’ve spent the last two weeks skiing in Banff, Canada (webcam). I’ve taken a bunch of photos [edit – they’re here], but have to find my Compact Flash adaptor first of all. In the meantime, I’m most proud of this one – my first Double Black Diamond […]
19 years ago