Archive for April, 2008

Ball and chain

As my holiday comes to an end I was stricken with a thought. Recently, we decided to reorganise the office to make better use of space. We moved management and support into the [overly sized] Wii room, put the Wii in the little office and tried to move developers, architects and BAs around the main [...]

Afternoon Dell-ights

Another of my recent toys has appeared by way of work – a Dell M1330 laptop. My boss is very good about appropriating what is required, and even humoured me by way of fulfilling my request for a laptop. I prefer them for work – easy to cart into meetings and ensure work gets done, [...]

Unloved Interfaces

Having spent all too many hours enjoying Air New Zealand’s hospitality – in the loosest sense of the word – I remain perplexed as to the design of their entertainment system. Things have moved on a lot since I last did a long-haul trip in 2005 – while we were chuffed then to have multiple [...]

Happy snapper

Over the past few months I’ve acquired a number of new toys, the most popular of which is proving to be my EOS 400D (or Digital Rebel XTi if you’re so inclined). I’ve oft sworn that a DSLR was more trouble than it’s worth – yes, the pictures are nice but it’s lots of money [...]

Resurrection

Astute observers may notice that this site has been left bereft of content for some months now. The reasons for this are legion, but essentially summed up in that I didn’t have anything I wanted to write about. And once I did, I was too lazy to write about it: a fine example for all [...]