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Decode: Digital Design Sensations

Mehul — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:49:12 +0000

It’s been a long time since I last went to an exhibition in London. Last night I went out to see the Decode exhibition at the V&A Museum in South Kensington. With my trusty 2-for-1 Time Out voucher the incentive of seeing a ‘free’ exhibition was too good to miss out on. The exhibition was [...]

Highlights of 2009

Mehul — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:07:26 +0000

What a year! Well I guess, alot of people start off their summary of 2009 that way. There have been some great moments including: Passing my karate grading Celebrating my niece, Eesha’s 1st Birthday The birth of my nephew – Rahul The birth of my niece – Jasmin Hugging my grandma after 9 years and [...]

LBi’s Christmas tree

Mehul — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:46:53 +0000

Here’s our LBi Christmas tree. Made of old mobile phones, it plays a jingle when you tweet it or use the on-screen piano. Play the blighter live! Find out more about our lovely creation! © Mehul Hirani // MehulHirani.com

Recently

Mehul — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:58:52 +0000

It’s been a while since you’ve heard from me, so I thought I’d update you on what I’ve been up to. Let’s start with holidays. I’ve been lucky enough to have traveled to India twice this year, after 9 years, which was great. Photos of my most recent trip coming soon. I’ve been ‘mad-busy’ at [...]

Upcoming trip to India

Mehul — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 20:03:50 +0000

‘An overloaded bus – West Bengal, India’ by Shayan (USA) on Flickr It’s been 8 years since I last went to India, back in 2000. I’ve booked my flights and I’ll be jetting-off to India in March. I’m really looking forward to seeing my family after so long and especially my grandma. My parents are [...]

In recent times…

Mehul — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:43:37 +0000

‘Reflections in the buildings’, some photos taken on my new camera, see more over at Flickr. …I’ve been quite busy with work and family stuff, but I’ve managed to by myself a new camera, the Canon EOS 450D – see some snaps over at flickr. I’ve also been doing a lot of DIY (do it [...]

Blogging drought

Mehul — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:09:02 +0000

It's been absolutely ages since I caught up with the world about what I'm doing and what I've been up to. Needless to say I've been busy, mainly because of a new job in London, which I will discuss in more detail soon alongwith a catch up of other things that have been going on. Watch this space in a couple of days or even sooner...

Web 2.0 – A real world advertisement

Mehul — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:28:52 +0000

Whilst looking for research material on the web for a presentation about the web 2.0 phenomenon and social networking, I came across this advertisement about web 2.0 in the real world. I thought it was really different and put a new spin on this buzzword that‚Äôs got us all talking about it at the moment.

The creator Leo Bridle and his friends created the video as an advertisement for ‚ÄòThe First Post‚Äô an online daily magazine. The ad, which is approximately 59 seconds long, took over two weeks to plan and create using only digital still photos and compositing together, similar to stop motion.

Web 2.0 Advertisement (YouTube)

The First Post article on ‚ÄòWeb 2.0 - The creation of a real-world advertisement‚Äô

The blogging drought

Mehul — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

it's been a while since my last post on the site, and I thought I'd let you know that I am still breathing and am doing ok.

So what's been happening? Well I've taken up contract work at National Grid in Wokingham, Berkshire. The company I spent a year with on my work placement. I'm working with Microsoft SharePoint and SQL migrating document libraries from the current document management system to SharePoint document libraries.

Outside of work, I’m doing some freelance projects, mainly websites and graphic design.

I went to see The Prestige a while back, and will be posting a review of the film soon. Before it leaves the cinema, I’d very much like to go watch Pan’s Labyrinth Directed by Guillermo del Toro. It looks like a really good film, anyone seen it?

I’m working on version two of the site, but progress is slow as my time is being wrapped up in my 9-5. Rest assured the new website will be coming soon, most likely in January or February.

That’s it for now.

Content Management Bible

Mehul — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I've been reading this book 'Content Management Bible' by Bob Boiko as part of my assignment for Emergent Multimedia Technologies. I'd definitely recommend it as the one book you'd want to buy if you're interested in content management. It's in depth but at the same time fun and easy to read. Check it out!