Entries from October 2008
Radio silence for three weeks
October 22, 2008 · 4 Comments
Things will be pretty quiet round here for the next few weeks.
I’m off to get married (very exciting) this weekend and will be away on honeymoon thereafter (just as exciting but in a different way). During this time I will forget that the internet exists. It will be the longest I’ve been without the web for about ten years. Be interesting to see how I get on. If I go in search of an internet cafe it may be the shortest marriage since Britney Spears did her thing in Vegas.
Normal service will be resumed on my return.
In the mean time I’ll leave you with this. My favourite Ted conference item ever and also one of, if not the, best presentations I’ve ever seen. It’s was given by Sir Ken Robinson in 2006. In it he examines if schools are undermining creativity rather than nurturing it.
Categories: design · humour · personal
Tagged: break, creativity, holiday, presentation, sir ken robinson, ted, wedding
links for 2008-10-21
October 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment
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Stay in tune with your co-workers. Ask questions, share knowledge, track time, and update agendas all in one place: Co-op.
Categories: Uncategorized
Lorem Ipsum. Just say No.
October 21, 2008 · 6 Comments
A very good friend of mine over at Made by Many, Isaac Pinnock, blogged recently about his hatred of the use of Lorem Ipsum dummy text in design mock ups.
I share this loathing for all the reasons that he mentions in his post.
And if any further proof were need that it’s a bad idea, check out this example I’ve just seen on a site linked from TechCrunch.
The screen shot on TechCrunch shows the offending copy. See CarZen for yourself. And no, the fact that they are in Beta doesn’t excuse them.
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The title of this post reminded me of this video. Just say No!
Categories: design
Tagged: beta, error, just say no, lorem ipsum, mock ups
links for 2008-10-20
October 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment
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I was asked by the leadership of the Agile 2008 Conference to give the closing keynote address at their annual conference in Toronto. The audience at Agile08 consisted of about 1500 programmers, engineers, product managers, and others involved in the creation and deployment of software primarily using Agile methods.
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What’s in a name?
October 17, 2008 · 3 Comments
OK, I’ve just realised (in a slightly amateurish way) that there was already a company based in the UK called DigitalBehaviour. Therefore, my grand plans for BehaviourDigital as mentioned in my previous post have fallen flat before the first hurdle. I’m still going ahead with my plan but it will now be under a different name.
In the spirit of crowdsourced ideas and the wisdom of the collective I’d like some user generated business name ideas. I’ll kick things off with a couple of suggestions using the new (slighty ugly) polling feature in WordPress but you can add you own in the comments.
Categories: work
Tagged: agency, business, crowdsourcing, name, poll
