I was invited to be a judge at this years’ Young ICT Explorers QLD competition for the Grade 4-5 category. Students from around the state come to UQ for the final and present their project in ICT to a panel … Continued
We’ve been playing with Kinect for Windows since it launched over a year ago in Beta. There’s a few things we’d really like to see that we think would make it that much better. Here’s our top 10. 1. Make … Continued
Technology Takes You Anywhere (TTYA) - an event aimed at getting schoolgirls interested in IT was back again this year. This is the 4th year we’ve been involved with the event. This year the location moved to QUT Kelvin Grove … Continued
Today was the exciting day for everyone. Finding out who will win the Imagine Cup for 2012. Just after lunch they took all the contestants out to get a group photo at Darling Harbour. Then one of my favourite parts … Continued
Today was the big day for the top 6 teams. Their final presentation to the panel of judges. It was an interesting morning watching all the cool solutions: Taiwan – had created a device + software to monitor activity levels … Continued
Today was another big day for the competitors and judges. Round 2 meant seeing 3 teams twice in the same day. First up was the normal presentation round where students pitched their solution to a team of 6 judges. The … Continued
Today was fairly massive. Started at 8am and finished about 10:45 pm. Judged 6 teams today. There were lot of nerve but also lots of excitement and passion about their solutions. Tonight they announced the 20 teams progressing to round … Continued
Today was the opening ceremony day for Imagine Cup Australia. Registration opened and we were issued with our name tags and event guide for the week. We had bunch of briefings on our duties as judges for the week. We … Continued
Today I headed to Sydney ready for the Imagine Cup 2012 World Wide finals. I was fortunate enough to be selected as a judge again this year. As I wandered around the local area it was cool to see the … Continued
In my PhoneGap project I want to grab some data to display on Bing Maps. Originally I created myself a really neat rest formatted WCF service that return JSON, but after I spent a day pulling my hair out trying … Continued
I’ve been progressing a bit with my little IPhone PhoneGap Bing Maps app today. I’m at the stage where I can show my custom pushpins on the map within a polygon and centre the map on the polygon. The next … Continued
Recently I reached my 2 year anniversary of having my 6 KWh solar system installed at home so I thought it’d be nice to work out how much we’ve saved. In 24 months we generated 18518, and in the last … Continued
Yesterday I showed you how to display a bing map in an IPhone Application. The next thing I wanted to do was show, and keep showing the users GPS location on the map. To do this, we use the watchPosition … Continued
We’ve done a bunch of Bing Maps development before and we’ve done some work with Windows Phone, but we have a client who wants and IPhone application to show some spatial data as most of their internal users have either … Continued
Last week we helped out at the first Kinect Bizspark Start-Up camp at the Microsoft Brisbane Office as part of the Queensland Microsoft Innovation Centre. The goal of the 3 days was for teams to build out an idea with … Continued
Last day in Beijing today. We ventured out on the very long subway ride to the Summer Palace. The subway was packed by towards the end of the journey we managed to get a seat. The summer place grounds are … Continued
After giving up on getting a clear day, let alone a blue sky we’d planned to go to the wall today. We must have spent enough time at the Department of Perfect Picture Day at the Taoist temple yesterday or … Continued
This morning we braved the subway again and headed over to Dongyue Temple – a Taoist Temple which is seemingly in the middle of the business district. After switching lines and wandering out of the train station we walked about … Continued
Today we did the touristy stuff. First we wandered down from the hotel to Tiananmen Square. Then we got in the queue to enter the Forbidden City along with 100’s of other tourists. It was a pretty grey day so … Continued
Today we were up early to head to Beijing. It turned out to be a big day of waiting. We were told it could take 1.5 hours to get to the airport so we left at 7:30am with a cab … Continued
This morning we set off for Mt HuaShan. Gave ourselves plenty of time to find a cab and get to the train station. Luckily there was one sitting outside our hotel so that was nice and easy. Driving around in … Continued
Today was our last day volunteering. Many thanks to Tiger who was absolutely tremendous. No request was to trivial or too much trouble for him. He was Mr. FixIt for the water, washing machine etc. Today we also had to … Continued
This morning the pandas were out and ready to get their pictures taken. They were out looking for food and apples. The mountains were fairly clear with a decent blue sky this morning. Rain forecast for tomorrow and a hot … Continued
Got up early but the pandas weren’t out and about much at all today. Erlang was up near the side fence chilling just before first feed at 8. Today I had yet a different keeper. This one is the usual … Continued
The pandas weren’t very active this morning. Many weren’t out at all or just sitting a long way from the camera. Erlang and YaYa were up on the hill mediating. Others were looking for someone to play with. I had … Continued
After all the rain we had our first blue sky. The smog was gone and we could clearly see the mountain. I don’t want to think too hard about what happened to the smog but it’s great to see blue … Continued
Today was really cold. Got up early and all the pandas were out which meant I could get a few pictures of ones that I don’t usually see. It’d rained overnight so most of them were a bit wet too … Continued
We get the weekends off so had a bit of a sleep in this morning, then went and said hello to the pandas before we set off on our walk up the mountain in the background. I thought it’d be … Continued
Today was our last day on the Ibis. My keeper let us take a photo inside the cages which was easier said than done. It’s actually really dark inside under the tree canopy and the Ibis don’t like to stay … Continued
This morning the pandas were up and playing in their enclosures and generally looking cute up trees and doing Kung Fu poses. These guys love to climb trees, and pull on the branches. I knew pandas climbed a bit but … Continued