Obligatory Busyness post

Reading time: < 1 min As we head for another product release it is only fair that I warn you that I am stooooopidly busy over the next three weeks, and not just at work. I’ve been lucky enough to bag some web design work and have just gotten off the phone with yet another person asking for some of […]

UA Conference Notes – Day 1

Reading time: 3 mins Notes and thoughts from Day 1 of the User Assistance Conference Session 1 – Tony Self – Emerging Help Delivery Technologies It’s been quite a while since I heard Tony speak but as ever he provided an entertaining, if somewhat limited, presentation. Covering the various types of help viewing technologies he nicely summarised some of […]

Miscellany

Reading time: 2 mins Since getting my iPhone I’ve tweaked my working practises a little but, thankfully, not a lot. As most of the applications I use for my daily life (email, RSS reading, that kind of thing) are well served on the iPhone it’s been a painless transition and it’s great to have everything working, sync’d up and […]

UA Conference – Day 1

Reading time: < 1 min I’ll write up my thoughts in more detail but suffice to say that, as per usual, my mind is racing with a million on one possibilities. Conferences are a good thing, even if you aren’t a position to change things it’s good to talk to other people in your profession, to find out that most […]

Eclectic Less

Reading time: < 1 min You are what they eat, they say, in which case I’m mostly caffeine and potatoes. As for what you listen to, that too has an influence on who you are and, naturally, vice versa. With this in mind it is with some disdain that I find myself plumped among the masses when it comes to […]

iTunes 8

Reading time: 2 mins I know a lot of you bemoan the fact it grabs huge chunks of memory, and that it has the audacity to organise your music into folders for you. I know this but, as I run on a nice chunky PC with plenty of memory and I don’t really care WHERE my music is stored […]