You wish you were here…

In the past 12 months, many things have happened. The world has seen an unprecendented global shakedown of financial services, America welcomed in a black president, a well respected and seasoned newspaper filed for bankrupcy, and the catch phrase “chk chk boom!” entered the Australian vocabulary. Just to name a few. And every one of the events of the past 12 months has been recorded, distributed, discussed and discovered on the interwebs.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending time in several bookshops, just browsing. One of the stores I visited was Kinokuniya, in George St. It’s a great store (if at times a little over-priced), with a huge range of books. But because the shop is so large, they try and help shoppers with a touch-screen [...]

SMH.com.au has started showing the entire print version of their daily newspaper online : SMH News Paper Direct. Screenshot taken from smh.newspaperdirect.com Im not sure what I think of this idea yet – mainly I think it’s a waste of time, but there are parts that could be good from an accessibility point of view. [...]

18 months ago, my fiance gave me an iPAQ 6365 PDA. I was over the moon – the first PDA i’d ever owned, it played music, took photos, and to boot had a mobile phone built into it. Even better, it had all these awesome wireless technologies built right into it… I couldn’t even begin [...]

I was gonna rant about a recent ad I saw for the new McDonalds Pasta Zoo happy meals, but just read a good article on smh that sums up my thoughts. We see things very differently to our children. When you see a trip to McDonalds, they see an unmissable magical adventure. This may be [...]

I’m as accessibility-conscious as the next web geek… well, to be honest sometimes a little more (read professional work), and other times a lot less (read personal work). What I have found, however, is that since I’ve started paying attention, Ive stumbled across several high profile examples where accessibility seems not to have been considered. [...]

Well, this is an idea that has been kicking around for some time, but it was highlighted by a discussion I was having at work today. When will the OS as we know it die, and be replaced by the browser as the OS of choice? Consider all of the applications offered by Google, which [...]

So, ive had a few minor revelations over the past few days – which i’d like to share and get feedback on. Here they are – in no particular order. 1. Small business and ubicomp As I look out my window, I see a man steering a small boat underneath the Anzac bridge. He’s a [...]

Ive been thinking a lot lately. Not about anything in particular – just all kinds of stuff. Truth be told, I was thinking about what I wanted to blog about. And it was while thinking about this that I started to think about original thought. Obviously i’m not the first person to have an original [...]