Fiona Cullinan

Misc

Female programming dream that’s gone off the Rails

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14th Jul 2013

I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while but needed to let my feelings settle down a bit… The first bit of code I ever wrote was a simple program in Basic on a BBC Microcomputer back in 1984 in the tiny school computer room next to the tuck…
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Misc

Engagement

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26th May 2013

So this happened… out of the blue on April 13, Pete said: “Will you marry me?” And I said are you serious!? And he said yes and I found myself saying yes back and promptly fell into the wall during the ring bit – but that’s another story. It’s discombobulating…
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Coworking spaces London #1: Google Campus review

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11th Jan 2013

I’m spending January in London for work. But my Fridays are free for random work, meetings and hopefully a bit of Friday School. So today, on Stef’s recommendation, I tried out Google Campus and met with Andy Bull, author of Multimedia Journalism to chat about brand journalism training. My one…
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2012 in review: volcanoes, photos and a few personal firsts

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30th Dec 2012

So that was 2012: work was good, travel was good and life was good. That’s 2013 jinxed then. Here’s what went on in 2012 in the form of a quick(ish) roundup… January New Year opened with me standing agog at my first sight of a horse and hound (non-fox) hunt…
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Journalism, Training

Five tips for journalists trying to make the digital transition

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17th Nov 2012

Today was a first for me – being a speaker on the social media panel at the NUJ’s one-day conference on the enjoyably menacingly titled New Ways to Make Journalism Pay II. I’d originally signed up to attend the event before I realised I probably had something to pass on from…
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digital

Jo Fairley and the rainbow glitch

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21st Oct 2012

My first-ever animated gif is of a series of pretty glitches that appeared in a video with chocolate entrepreneur Jo Fairley, co-founder of Green & Black’s. She’s generating rainbows… And here is a glitch still of the lady herself in a room snowing colour pixels…
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RebelMouse ‘social front page’ on test

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9th Oct 2012

Okay, so I’ve tried ScoopIt, Bundlr and Storify but not Pinterest. Let’s see how the curation element of new RebelMouse works, which is similar to Pinterest. So here’s my social media splash page, which pulls in my blog feeds, selected tweets and clipped content, and which I’ve customised. It looks…
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digital

Pedestrian manga love story

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8th Oct 2012

Inked by Pete Ashton using his new iPhone app Manga-Camera and captioned by me from a real-life event.
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A baker called Tom Baker…

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8th Sep 2012

Today a baker called Tom Baker opened an awesome community bakery on Stirchley high street. Here is Tom (and, I believe, Dom).
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Misc, Photography

Ein! Zwei! Drei! Vierrrrrr!

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26th Aug 2012

I don’t know what I can tell you about Birmingham Opera Company‘s latest – Stockhausen’s six-hour avant garde epic Mittwoch Aus Licht aka “Wednesday from Light”. It was an experience that was not wholly enjoyable and yet at the same time it was pretty darn great. I’ll let this video and…
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