Slightly Older Musings
Ramblings
Irony overload as undecided voters criticise flip-flopper
danCheck out the buried lead in this article from Reuters: “Romney just has to prove that he’s conservative enough for me,” said Eleanor Stump, a 70-year-old Tea Party member from … Continue reading
MoJo week 2: Adoption
danIn this week’s MoJo lectures, we listened to Mark Surman and Chris Heilmann of Mozilla talk about the new HTML5 standards and capabilities in the Firefox browser, and from John Resig on how to build and maintain an open source product. Continue reading
The Power of Prototyping
danThis is the first in what will be a series of blog posts for the Mozilla-Knight Journalism Challenge. This week we heard from Aza Raskin, former creative lead for Firefox and head of user experience for Mozilla, talking about the power of prototyping for understanding problems and building momentum behind your solution. Continue reading
We’re back
danSo I totally got hacked. Reminder: be vigilant about upgrading wordpress and its plugins, or bad things happen. The hack looks like this, and appears all over the place, at … Continue reading
One of my favourite stories ever
danAs told by Douglas Adams a few years ago. I laugh every time I read this, and today I shared it with my wife for the first time and so … Continue reading
Why low taxes “benefit” the rich
danLiving in the US I hear a lot of heated rhetoric about taxes. While I’m not an economist, I do want to weigh in on what I see as a … Continue reading
The New Citigroup
danAs part of its ongoing PR-ification of the financial crisis, Citigroup has posted the hilariously tautological “A Safer Approach to Risk“. Here’s a quote from the article: For our society … Continue reading
This ride isn’t fun any more
danFrom an amazing photo blog I just discovered.
Ode to an Exit Row
danI just authored this on a plane, while sitting in an exit row, in honour of Exit Rows everywhere. I’m 6’6″ / 200cm. You get the idea. Happiness is an … Continue reading