You wish you were here…

Wand some icons? Depressing, really. I did a project last year, with about 150 icons. All those little pixels just make me crazy!!! These icons are excellent – and they are free Check it out!

So, the Tuesday just gone I attended the Web Directions conference (see interacting with the world for an intro). I went with collegues from work and between the three of us we make up the design department. The workshop we went to was Designing for Interaction and the speaker was Dan Saffer from Adaptive Path. [...]

Red Ant said goodbye to Sarah today. And after 8 years at the Ant, she will be sorely missed. To celebrate/commiserate, we took her to Art House and got drunk. Hilarity ensued… here are some of the finest pics from the night. (by the way, for those who don’t know her, she’s the little one… [...]

The other day OJ posted about a video on YouTube, depicting an interface that comes close to resembling what you see in Minority Report… you know, with the interface made from projected light? I’d seen this movie in the past myself, and was excited by the possibilities it offered for new interfaces and interactive moments. [...]

What a great night copious amounts of alcohol, followed by copious doses of laughter and bad digipics !! What more could I ask for?! Thanks to all who turned out. Here’s some happy snaps.

Susan has a very interesting post (a little old now, but Id forgotten to blog about it) about Blogs as marketing tools. Makes for an interesting topic to discuss, and opens a topic of discussion about good online business models, which is something I want to try and write about in the next few weeks. [...]

Wow, what a nice camera this is : The Leica M8 is one beautifully crafted object (with a beautifully hefty price tag to boot!). Anyway, wow – im impressed. But for the mere mortals of the world, the Panasonic Lumix digi cam is (while not of exact quality) of very similar Leica-esque status and well [...]

Well, im a few days early but hey. I like to think that the entire week surrounding my birthday IS my birthday – and why not?! It’s the start of Spring, the weather rocks… parties every night… So here’s an (early) present from my gorgeous better half (and here’s the link Sennheiser HD 280 Pro) [...]

The reason for this post is to pose a question. Would it would it be wise to have your software, OS et al as an image, that you add to when you buy something new? Use something like Ubuntu and run Windows as a VM? Keep a backup of the image somewhere like a DVD [...]

A few links you might find relevant while absorbing the Ruby machine. You could get these from Google – or if you’ve stumbled here, from me instead! Really getting started on Rails Ajaxs on Rails Rails ToDo list There are more, but I havent read them yet, so don’t know if they are any good. [...]

So, the plastic has been taken off and the foam all broken apart to resemble a winter wonderland, and it’s back to business as shiftperception celebrates it’s first day on a new and entirely local server. IF all has gone according to plan, the only difference you’ll see is this post – otherwise im typing [...]

giaitrivietnam.net has some amazing positive/negative space paper cut artwork (thanks OJ). Seriously cool.

Ill be brief. OJ at BlackApache has updated his site, and will be bombarding us all with the sounds of one hand typing in the woods. Here’s a picci of his ugly mug just cause I can (and of course the lovely Amy) :

So, I had my first day hand-in-hand with Instant Rails today. Following the tutorial I managed to get all the way with only a few minor hickups (read: leaving for a few hours, coming back and starting from further down the page and missing a few important lines), which I think is pretty good. Sure, [...]

At the start of this year I began work on an isometric engine for a Flash game I was developing at work. Now there are heap of books that deal with the logic of game dev in Flash, and to get me started, I went out and bought Flash game dev demystified. Now, because I [...]