Hungary bound

Reading time: < 1 min Camera, check. iPod, check. Books, check. Ohhh! Clothes.. check (kinda). Ummm… toiletries, check. Ehh… passport, check. Cash, check. Right. We’re off to Hungary. Back on Sunday. Ohh don’t worry, there’ll be a couple of posts along soon to keep you occupied. Viszontlátásra!

Learning from others

Reading time: < 1 min I spent most of the weekend laying, re-laying, cutting and swearing at laminate flooring. I read the provided instructions, measured twice (hell, four or five times in most cases) but still it proved problematic. I re-read the instructions, googled a little and then, after some experimentation finally figured out what the problem was… me. Well […]

We Haz Teh Kitchen!

Reading time: < 1 min Laminate flooring is a bugger (or maybe it’s the instructions?). But, finally, it’s done!! Well, technically speaking there are a couple of small jobs to do but that’s the big stuff out of the way. You should’ve seen us when we laid that last bit of flooring, high-fiving like a couple of NBA All-Stars we […]

Recently Read

Reading time: 2 mins Blimey, another week has flown past and, as ever a few things have caught my eye. 9 ways to gather user feedback It’s often a struggle to get true user feedback on your documentation, Craig Haiss offers some suggestions to improve things in this area. Whilst I’ve tried some of these, and had heard of […]

Distracted

Reading time: 2 mins Looks like a day of constant drizzle ahead so I’m stuck indoors. Louise is away out to do some shopping and catchup with a friend over lunch and freshly brewed coffee is currently gurgling away in the kitchen. Tasks for the weekend are to finish the flooring in the kitchen. We failed last weekend as […]

Got TED?

Reading time: < 1 min Have you heard of the TED conference? (TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design) No? It’s been going a while now, and got started back in 1984 …out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design. The first TED included demos of the newly released Macintosh computer and […]