“I do not have the authority to obligate the government to make purchases.”
Category: Thoughts
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Images taken while sitting in Citizen Cupcake in front of the Apple Store in SFO. Girl in the yellow shirt from Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on Vimeo.
Silicon Crescent
Matt put up a nice map of the startups in Shoreditch, glad we’re somehow web2.0 enough for that map :) View Larger Map
Lovely and timeless
When people ask me what I'm interested in
This sounds like a great way to answer
Feeling safe in airports
Coming back from a trip to Israel reminded me about what it used to be like to commute to and from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the 90s when I was young. There’s lot of stuff about sur and sousveillance and much digital ink has been spilt on the subject of security and fear, but… Continue reading Feeling safe in airports
Language issues: or a rough guide to British English
They may look unrelated but these words will save your life here. Pants = underwear as opposed to trousers Bin = garbage Chips = fries Crisps = chips (i know, very confusing) Wanker = idiot
Prescriptive or predictive information visualisation?
Something that’s starting to tick me off in the world of information visualisation goes back to why people found it interesting to begin with. When we didn’t know any better, we’d leave information visualisation to Powerpoint and Excel and only insiders and people who’d been to the right schools were able to make any sense… Continue reading Prescriptive or predictive information visualisation?
To see or not to see?
Random thoughts triggered by Nicola’s link. What if what was going to be a major roadblock to ubiquitous computing is the idea that as users, we want to be able to point to where a “technology-enabled” object lies? That we cannot live with the idea that we no longer have an on/off relationship like the… Continue reading To see or not to see?
Design crisis anyone?
I don’t want to look like I’m crying wolf here, but certainly you can’t ignore the signs. From why design conferences should be better to how we should design ouselves out of consumer culture ending with Stark himself saying it’s all a bit shit really, things don’t sound too good for product design at the… Continue reading Design crisis anyone?