Kevin Corti, CEO, PIXELearningHi. Welcome to my blog site.

My name is Kevin Corti and I am CEO and co-founder of Soshi Games, a company that uses social games to bring about positive societal impact. If that sounds interesting to you then please visit our ‘about us’ page at http://soshigames.wordpress.com/home/

I am also co-founder and a non-executive director of PIXELearning (www.pixelearning.com ) a UK-based ‘Serious Games’ or, more accurately, a Immersive Learning Simulation development company.

This blog is (mainly) about the use of game and simulation techniques and (sometimes) technologies in enterprise, social causes, training and education.

Why ‘Evil Number 27’?

For 15 years or so I have noticed that the number 27 crops up far more often than probability would suggest it should. It is not my lucky number nor is it ‘bad’, it just is. Look out for it in re-runs of Friends. Listen to the news about accidents. Play roulette. It seems to me that if someone picks an arbitrary number to illustrate randomness over 10 and less than 100, more often than is natural they will use 27. My recent sightings of abnormal 27 occourances will be here.

I’m not the only one that has this opinion….

http://www.chrismore.com/index.cfm?atID=38

More ’27 facts’ here….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club

http://www.wisdomportal.com/Numbers/27.html

Why ‘Bivouac’?

Many years ago when I was in the Scouts and on several occasions whilst on outward bound management training trips, we would occasionally leave the comfort of the home/office/hotel and construct an individual sleeping shelter out of natural materials under the stars (or more often rain clouds). Metaphorically therefore a bivouac is a place you go to very infrequently to get away from the normality of life’s comforts – at one with nature so to speak, or, in this case, to speak. Setting up a blog felt like that for me; getting away from the normal work environment to experience the raw nature of what I do for a living.

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