August 2009

Less mousing around

August 25, 2009

Interesting post giving an account of computing with limited use of the mouse from someone who has a recurring injury disability Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me just for some fun — clay chess Saturday Snap: Signature hat

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disability access is like organic fruit

August 24, 2009

Not that long ago, the origin of the fruit and veggies in our supermarkets was a lot less important to the general populous than it is now. Barring the scandals of oil spills and contamination reports we supermarket shoppers were largely content to believe that the fruit and vegetables that were being presented to us [...]

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Say it in seconds

August 11, 2009

Brevity may be the order of the day for our PM, but ultimately what they say is more important. Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold 6WS: late The view from 40 years on Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me

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On Writing

August 10, 2009

From the aptly titled Write when inspired If you want to be great, or at least to be better, start by breathing, taking breaks, and working intensely when the mood is on. Possibly Related Posts: The email I wrote for international day last year Just writing Perhaps *part* of the reason for the neglect of [...]

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so, so yesterday

August 10, 2009

In a vague half hearted attempt to find blog statistic tracking tools for this blog I found this. It’s a discussion of the trends around blogging; whose doing it, whose reading them, how often people update and burn out rates. Its an interesting read which traces the rise and it believes fall of the phenomena. [...]

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how good is this

August 5, 2009

Just for something different. See here for explanation. It’s my desktop image now.  via Jason Possibly Related Posts: heading to cold Saturday Snap: The view from down here A few random facts about me just for some fun — clay chess Saturday Snap: Signature hat

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Getting things done …. dude

August 5, 2009

If you know me, especially off-line  probably know that I am a fan and practitioner of the Getting Things Done methodology by David Allen. Here is one guys’ approach to it on a Mac. I might one day do my own explanation of my system, but for the moment this is funny and wise! via [...]

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The Michael Jackson thing

August 4, 2009

Despite the fact that I am of the right generation, Michael Jackson’s music never really grabbed me. I knew and liked one or two of the more popular songs, though, at the risk of sounding like an old woman as a teenager most of his music was too fast for me. Although, once reviewed, his [...]

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The wheels of the bus

August 3, 2009

The last few weeks have been quite remarkable. Remarkable in a good way I hasten to add. My experiences with mass transit have worked. Consistently. Seamlessly. They just have. The ramps of the rear loading buses have largely worked; and, on the few occasions when they haven’t worked first time the drivers have tried a [...]

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