Archive for January, 2009

As related to a bag of hammers

Michele shared with me this great thought about design. That the way to evaluate a designed object was not by how good it is, but only by how bad it was or wasn’t. In this case a cell phone. The proper way to think of whether your mobile suits you is this simple metric: how [...]

A musical birthday present to you

Thanks for all the facebook birthday love! I was overawed by so many taking the time to say happy birthday. Yay for social media. Here is my return present to you! Pirate radio free dingo is now live, streaming the very best of 33 years and one half dog years. By limited engagement through to [...]

New Year’s resolutions

consume less make more make time focus on what’s important tackle new challenges learn a new skill teach a young dog new tricks launch a new product stay solvent get rich (why not?) visit a new country win a sailing race drive a dog sled relearn an old language (even if it’s javascript) read less [...]

Conferences to watch in 2009

Lift, the amazing European (and now Global) tech conference isn’t really a tech conference at all it’s really an inspiration conference. Think a TED talks meets Barcamp meets a cirque du soleil production. Hard core techies beware though, Lift is a lot more abstract, design and human-oriented than you may be used to. Nonetheless, highly [...]