Ubiquitous computing done right
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 Posted in Design, Gadgets, Ubiquitous computing | No Comments »I was happily surprised when I saw this video. I was sent it by Miles, and I think it is an outstanding example of ubiquitous computing. Amazingly it's also several years old now, and part of Johnny Lee's work at ...
Australian presence in California
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Personal | No Comments »Was jogging past Google when a cricket ball came flying my way. All while listening to some Alex Lloyd.
Amusing links
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »As shared in my reader sidebar, but I thought these were particularly amusing: Pulp Fiction as Shakespeare Polish Postcard Prank ABC runs the Lincoln-Douglas debates ...and for the Silicon Valley folks, Valleywag vs Arrington
The Anti-Portfolio
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 Posted in Startups | No Comments »Found this great link from Hacker News - Bessemer Venture Partners' anti-portfolio. Everyone likes to highlight their strengths and past successes, but there's something impressive about being able to admit mistakes, on your corporate site no less. I can only hope ...
Random Wikipedia Link of the Day – Donkey Kong Jr… MATH
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »Sometimes I worry about Wikipedia. I really do. After all, they'll delete the entry on Trovix, but they'll let something like this survive, nay, flourish. I present for your perusal, this. The game features one player and two player modes. ...
Turn your iPhone into a wifi Skype phone
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 Posted in Design, Gadgets, Startups, Usability | 1 Comment »There has been a lot of buzz on the intertubes today about Fring. They're an Israeli startup who released a fairly popular mobile chat client. That's simplifying things - in addition to supporting every major IM client, Fring automatically logs ...
Amusing links
Sunday, April 13th, 2008 Posted in Amusing | No Comments »1001 uses for Jello in 1973. Does the Gold Kit really work? Photoshop disasters blog. Detroit vs Mountain View.
37Signals disagrees with usability guru Norman, or, what is usability?
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 Posted in Design | No Comments »There was a thought-provoking rebuttal from 37Signals to criticisms levelled by Don Norman regarding their product. (side note: did anyone else think 37Signals was using svn to version control their blog postings based on the URL?) Don's original post is titled "Why ...
American culture
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Wikipedia | No Comments »As a US citizen, but having been brought up in Australia, I mostly identify myself as an Australian. Growing up I was always 'into' American culture - things like American candy, comic books, movies, etc - while still appreciating ...
Isn’t Twitter a company that sells car parts?
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Amusing, Tech issues, Web products | No Comments »Amusing video (sadly only for a small group of people). [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvKbv3FNW00]
