http://designswarm.com/blog thoughts about people, technology and when they collide Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Highlarious. Thanks Megan and BERG, made my day. http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/03/10/beautiful-serious-women-hidden-behind-electronics/ I'm in a hotel room in Barbados, it's 5: 27am. I'm about to go to sleep after taking a client out to drinks. This one insists on meeting really late in the evenings and on weekends, not sure why. I think he's trying to disrupt my work-work balance. Thankfully I ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/03/02/imaginary-weeknotes-002/ "the Canadian economy will remain vulnerable to cyclical downturns in commodity prices (forestry is one current example); firms and people will move to more dynamic regions; and wealth generation is dampened" say these people. Nothing like post-hockey victory kicking. http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/03/02/le-canadian-sigh/ ****DISCLAIMER: This is a response to collective "encouragement" in my office building around publishing Weeknotes. Some of this may be true, most of it isn't, you be the judge.**** This week, I'm spending my time having cups of Earl Grey and Jasmine Pearls, working from Liberty's tea room downstairs. It's London ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/02/22/imaginary-weeknotes-001/ It's always scary and entertaining when a concept that comes from programming techniques kindof made me think of the way I run my company. Instead, most of a program's overall functionality is coded into a single "all-knowing" object, which maintains most of the information about the entire program and provides ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/02/15/running-a-studio-comment-1/ I've specifically _tried_ as much as I can to avoid the subject of women, gender equality and tech in this blog for years but this was an invitation I simply could not refuse. I'm also writing this down running out of time and needing to pack a suitcase, so this ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/01/20/commenting-back/ I was fortunate enough to attend the Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium on "The City as a Platform" in fabulous NYC last week and thought i'd share my Ignite-style talk. This event and talk was an opportunity for me to do 4 things: - talk about something that's related to my ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2010/01/14/deep-city/ I'm one of those people who, in order to thoroughly enjoy a book, underlines my way through it. I re-read this one in the last month and thought i'd write things down down. They won't make much sense outside of the context of the book and maybe that's what's interesting ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2009/12/28/dog-earing-city-by-alessandro-baricco/ A bit of a tradition started 3 years ago by a canadian friend. I think it's as good a way as any to recap. 1.What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? Missed a flight. 2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2009/12/27/the-year-that-was/ Good conferences are about managing expectations: the speakers' and the audience's. They've paid to attend, the speaker has probably paid to fly over and add their professional profile to making the event worth going to in the first place. Both parties should be cared for. At the end of a ... http://designswarm.com/blog/2009/12/13/better-conferences/