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Know your food

After Open Sauces in November, I got interested in food again, especially the way food is presented and communicated in the context of supermarkets. There’s something deeply depressing about the presentation of fruits and veg in the UK and there is also something cultural about that presentation. When I lived in Italy, access to certain… Continue reading Know your food

Design's role in the descending economy

So I find myself more and more motivated to blog as a way to scratch an intellectual itch triggered just today by visiting the V&A’s Cold War Modern exhibition and coming back home to read the Guardian’s interview of Philippe Starck, Terrence Conran and Kirstie Allsopp. As I walked through the Victoria and Albert’s completely… Continue reading Design's role in the descending economy

Something worth blogging about

I don’t like women and technology events but i would blog any day about women I admire in technology. Actually so should you. Common now, I’m sure we could up the numbers on women attending tech conferences in no time! Additionally in the spirit of Anne Galloway’s brilliant chart on women in ubicomp from in… Continue reading Something worth blogging about

For ordinary people

This is just the best example of British wit, sarcasm and social commentary.

2009 resolutions

I don’t like chocolate that much anymore and I’ve already promised myself to do more exercise, so all there’s left to commit to are a loose collection of interests I’d like to pursue in the coming year: – Find out what’s behind the current trend of doomsday scenarios for the future..is it only a byproduct… Continue reading 2009 resolutions

So true

This is a total re-blog from Patrick but I just couldn’t resist.

RIP Douglas Keen

A little sadness on this rainy Sunday in London. I opened yesterday’s Guardian to find that Douglas Keen had died. I didn’t know him personally nor did I even know his name, but his work is a key part of my childhood. He was the one to teach me english, or to be perfectly accurate… Continue reading RIP Douglas Keen

The best things in life are near

I just came back from a sort of really stupid back and forth on 6 eurostars in the space of a week…but the friends i got to see again, the meals i got to eat and the events I attended made this a really beautiful week, with the real satisfaction of just traveling by train.… Continue reading The best things in life are near

Open Sauces toast

I had the extreme pleasure of attending Open Sauces in Bruxelles yesterday which was organised by the great people at fo.am. I was invited to give a toast and did so on a course that was served with a plate from the Topoware collection. I thought I’d archive what I said. Before I take a… Continue reading Open Sauces toast

The dusty corners of the Internet

I’m curious about the various time-trapped bits of the internet these days such as Barack Obama’s Twitter feed, abandoned land and marketing exercises in Second Life and blogs that people no longer write in. All eyes in one direction for 15 minutes or 6 months, then onto something else. Are these the abandoned memories, newspapers,… Continue reading The dusty corners of the Internet