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Sounds pathetic, doesn’t it? But that’s how it is. So when other hackers ask what I do, it’s tough to say where my strongest skills lie. And because I usually work on projects on my own most of the time, I don’t have much self-confidence to team up with other people. As I lone freelancer building mainly “brochure” websites for SME clients directly, I have to know a wide gamut of things from database management right the way through to visual design and UX. I know a bit of stuff about a lot of things. This is where we come to my second problem. “Ah, well team up and make someone else’s idea!” I hear you say. Some people are ideas people, and they come up with amazing projects in their sleep. Firstly, I just don’t seem to have any original ideas for cool stuff to build, even if given the data and other info in advance. So what? You could have done that at home, anytime. They probably don’t want to see the new WordPress theme you’ve written for your own personal photographic site during the demo sessions. Most hack organisers encourage you to play with this or that API or data provided by the Sponsors. Which is great, but there hasn’t been much to show for it at the end. I’ve usually redesigned my website or noodled about with something trivial, as well as just hanging out with friends. Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t wasted my time. Well, they’re all Hack Days/events which I’ve attended but never hacked anything worth demoing. What do all of the hack events on the right have in common? Can’t see the link?
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What I BuiltĪfter my recent moan that I rarely build anything at hack days, the night before Hacked I had an idea! I had been meaning to do something with my personal archive of images made while I was working at BBC Television Centre, so decided to put together a whole new section of my photographic website to showcase the pictures:
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Still, there were plenty of other things to occupy us while we were waiting for the internet to be available – notably Heather and I spent a couple of hours building a Meccano helicpoter which was provided for our table to tinker with if we wanted to. I also made use of my Mifi, once it was established that using them wasn’t upsetting the rest of the network.
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I had to rely on it though, as my new slimline laptop does not have a full sized ethernet adaptor and I had no converter to use the CAT5 cable. They did their best and eventually most people got some wired access at their desks, which seemed to lighten the load on the wifi network pretty well. Unfortunately, for much of Saturday afternoon it just wasn’t working for many people, due to the sheer loading issues. The big fly in the ointment for any hack event is working wifi.
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There was plenty of food and drink available at all times, and the idea of giving us vouchers for the O2 restaurants to have our free Saturday evening meal was a great one.