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TED Session 5 – Understand

February 6, 2009

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Things got better for me in this session. The kickoff speaker, Nina Jablonski had what I think was the best stage presence so far. Others will disagree, but I really liked her – I’d totally study Anthropology if she was one of my professors.
Nina Jablonski

this month is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth
Origin of [...]

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TED Session 4 – See

February 6, 2009

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Today started oddly for me. Tired after too few hours sleep (I was on Canberra time last night), the first session, while certainly interesting didn’t feel like it resoonated with me quite so much as the previous day. I am neither artist, scientist nor musician and the morning was dominated by these disciplines.
Don’t get me [...]

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TED Session 1 – Reboot

February 5, 2009

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Here’s the thing, I can’t write fast enough to make all this make this all make sense, so what I’m going to do is post my raw notes from each session. Crazy, I know, but hopefully it gives you at least a feel for what’s going on. When I get time, I’ll go through [...]

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BarCamp Sydney #4 – Saturday, 15 November 2008

November 2, 2008

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The (un)organisers of BarCamp Sydney have let me know that they are preparing for yet another festival of creativity to engage and excite the Australian tech and innovation community. Details below.
Date: 15 November 2008
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse
Time: 9:00AM-5:00PMpm (registration starts at 8:30AM)
Register: Do it yourself on the wiki
If you’ve never been to a BarCamp before, I [...]

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Feedly makes it *so much better*

June 22, 2008

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Like a lot of people I know, I’m usually buried under an avalanche of work, stuff I want to read and absorb and incoming messages that fight for my continuous partial attention. My pal, Stowe Boyd, and I have both recently become aware of Feedly, a new Firefox extension that radically messes with Google Reader [...]

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Delivering better presentations

May 25, 2007

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I’m working on several presentations at the moment that I hope I will be able to deliver at some upcoming conferences.
Like most people, in the past I have delivered presentations that largely consisted of dot points on a page, the occasional gag slide and Way. Too. Many. Words. That. I. Read. Straight. From. The. Slides. [...]

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Speaking of original – LaCie Huby

December 2, 2006

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While we’re talking original design, check out the LaCie Huby. Four USB 2.0 ports and two FireWire 400 ports. Fan. Light. Eight nifty twisty cables. US$79. Late December release. Looks sweet.

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Do I NEED 15 shutdown choices?

November 22, 2006

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Over at Joel on Software, Joel delivers a sound slapping to the designers of the new Windows Vista who have managed to give the user a mind-numbing 15 options when trying to figure out how to switch off their computer.
This confusing set of possibilities is driven by trying to offer too many options/choices in a [...]

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Icons make for good interfaces

August 21, 2006

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Never thought I’d prefer a feature of WiMP over iTunes, especially now I’m a dyed-in-the-wool Mac convert. However, good design is good design no matter where it occurs.
Rich Ziade at Basement.org has a post discussing the intelligent use of iconography (more or less) as an aid to visual understanding and boosting of user experience. [...]

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