http://www.ianlawrence.info What is the digital equivalent of lovely? He wondered. What are the digits that encode beauty, the number-fingers that enclose, transform, transmit, decode, and somehow, in the process, fail to trap or choke the soul of it? Not because of the technology but in spite of it, beauty, that ghost, that treasure, passes undiminished through the new machines. daily 1 2007-02-28T10:55:40Z http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/advances-in-mobile-data-collection-nokia-data-gathering-4.04 Dourado, which means gold in Portuguese is the standard to which all data gathering tools aspire. Locally in the Amazon Basin the Dourado is known as one of the largest freshwater fish being brave, compulsive and an ambush hunter which makes it a dream fish for many anglers and fully deserving of its title 'King of the River'. During their spawning season which occurs in spring and early summer, they leap spectacularly out of the water to avoid rapids and obstacles until they reach the headwaters where the males and females swim side by side until the eggs are released. The eggs are then scattered by the current and its every fish for himself!.. No publisher vern 2012-05-07T21:02:35Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/tangaza-or-announce-in-swahili Tangaza is a mobile phone based messaging system designed to enable low cost group communication. No publisher vern 2011-10-14T19:11:41Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/evaluating-projects-for-their-return-on-social-investment ”When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science.” —William Thomson No publisher vern 2011-04-25T18:14:04Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/software-shortlisted-for-sustainability-award INdT celebrate another conquest with Nokia Data Gathering (NDG). No publisher vern 2011-03-11T15:32:11Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/install-kubuntu-mobile-on-the-n900 Tech Preview of Kubuntu Mobile No publisher vern 2011-01-11T10:57:02Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/roadmapping-at-the-university-of-nairobi-kenya Brave Batian - Nokia Data Gathering 3.04 No publisher vern 2010-12-14T00:16:13Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/open-innovation-africa-summit What if we were able to build a world where innovative ideas, best practices and knowledge would flow freely and were harnessed to solutions which solve everyday challenges? No publisher vern 2010-10-29T15:34:38Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/nokia-data-gathering-open-source One of the most successful pieces of software ever to come out from the Nokia Institute in Brazil has been released under the LGPL No publisher vern 2010-08-18T22:59:26Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/open-source-community-support-developer-at-indt Come and work with us in Manaus! No publisher vern 2010-06-29T19:59:05Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/i-am-going-to-debconf-10 New York, August 1 -7 No publisher vern 2010-06-01T15:31:21Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/ubuntu-mobile-development-at-the-bossa-conference-2010 What we can look forward to in the Lucid release No publisher vern 2010-03-13T23:22:47Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/liquid-update Status report for the UDS Blueprint No publisher vern 2010-02-01T00:40:53Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/uds-l-key-takeaways ARM, the cloud and Google Chrome OS No publisher vern 2009-11-27T19:15:24Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/council-a-thinktank-for-the-internet-of-things Council is launching in Brussels on December 4, 2009. No publisher vern 2009-10-17T18:55:09Z Blog Entry http://www.ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/ubuntu-liquid-remix Liquid moves in a changing world No publisher vern 2009-10-02T13:19:37Z Blog Entry