Archive for the 'General' Category

UXCamp Vancouver Nearly Here

02Dec09

I was going to blog earlier this week about the upcoming User Experience Camp Vancouver, which Karen Parker and I are organizing and holding at the Vancouver Film school this Saturday, but the event sold out nearly immediately, and I fear that writing about it here will be frustrating to so many who can’t get [...]

Will Japan Take Off Because of Broadband Price and Speed?

28Mar09

I noticed a fascinating couple of graphs in an article on the blog World Politics Review, Top 30 Countries for Broadband Internet Access. One of them showed Japan’s astounding average Internet speed:

Japan shows an impressive 60 megabits per second speed (I’m assuming this is for download as well as upload?) with Korea not far behind [...]

Another Restart. This time, Something Interesting

12Jan09

HAL 9000
Rather than try to write something profound (at least on the surface), I thought I’d start writing in this blog again with an observation about today’s date, at least in terms of the History of Computer Science:
On today’s date, HAL, the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 17 year’s old, as the movie [...]