Here is a mindmap plan for an online collaboration tool.

The idea is to base it on django and mercurial with a healthy splattering javascript. It should allow direct (non-web) access for the power user and handle LaTeX projects nicely.

I’ve been experimenting for awhile with svn for collaborative paper writing. It’s got some nice features but has problems too which ultimately means it’s not the way to go:

Too complicated: too much effort is required to be able to contribute to a project - both Read more »

Another really nice application of Nintendo's Wii remote by Johnny Lee.

It's amazing how good the 3-D effect is, I guess our brains are wired to interpret depth in this way.

This is very cool: a wii remote + infrared led + projector and you have your own interactive whiteboard:

more details here.

Looks like there's drivers for the wii remote for most platforms even linux, so hopefully we will see a whole lot of programs that make use of it eg driving powerpoint, navigation for croquet, ...

After mucking around for a couple of days with Simile Timeline, which I’ve always liked, Google’s calendar and some javascript, which I know nothing about, I’ve put up a list of conferences in quantum information science and quantum optics that has a nice interface. Read more »

Ok, I can see the advantage of having sexual mixing of genes for a species … but why stop at two sexes? Is it just that there isn’t some convenient bio-chemical machinery available or are there more subtle reasons? Would the battle become an all out war  ?

Michael pointed out an interesting use of subversion in teaching. The technique lends itself nicely to monitor and give feedback on students writing a thesis too. Read more »

For a couple of years I’ve been playing around with using ideas from Agile software development and in particular from Extreme Programing for collabora Read more »