Archive for March, 2007
Spring forward, fall back
Moving to London this week. I’ve not been as sentimental about leaving as I thought I might. If all goes to plan I’ll be living close enough to St Pancras to head back up from time to time.
My biggest concern is temporary loss of WiFi. Geek, moi? Hence possible slow blog progress for a [...]
Spring miscellany
1. It’s definitely spring today. Happy happy joy joy.
2. It’s also Pi Day - go forth and multiply (by 3.14159)!
3. The most interesting eyetracking finding ever: men stare at crotches.
Even animals’ crotches too, apparently. Take that, F-shaped content! More on BoingBoing.
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Twitter at ATP, anyone?
And people ask what’s so good about Twitter…
I had another Twitter-related thought recently, namely to encourage ATP attendees to sign up and use it. In a similar way to SxSW / FOWA / any other geek conference you care to mention, we can use it as a realtime virtual community, saying things like:
“Band Of Horses [...]
Sony announce "Home"
Well well. The console wars just got a lot more interesting. Sony have announced “Home”, a Second Life-esque virtual world to meet other gamers, download extra content (presumably via micropayments), and generally immerse oneself into the world of PS3. It looks extremely nifty and is probably the first genuinely exciting thing Sony have done in [...]
Two new songs
Took a day’s holiday today to record some songs.
The Last Thing I Said To You Was Don’t Leave Me Here [1:24, 1.7MB]
Reprise (for Anya) [4:54, 5.7MB]
They’re part of my 7plusorminus2 project, about which a full post will appear when I’ve finished everything. As with pretty much everything I do, these are released under a Creative [...]
Intimate design
Slightly delicate one this. A good 50% of the adult population will at some time have experienced the design difficulties of condoms. Given the use context (dark, possible alcohol influence, other tasks foremost in the user’s mind), there’s definite scope for improving the, um, experience.
Step forward XYZ Design of South Africa, with their condom applicator. [...]
Relocation, relocation, relocation
Well, it’s been a while, and finally I have some news. From April I will be moving to London to take up an IA position with uSwitch.com.
Obviously I’m delighted - it seems like a great company with a good understanding of UCD and some big plans for the future. I’m also looking forward to being [...]