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The folks at PARC have got it right, as evidenced in this CNET article, From PARC, the mobile phone as tour guide
Palo Alto Research Center, or PARC–the Xerox subsidiary that was the birthplace of the computer mouse, the graphical user interface and Ethernet–has developed a mobile application that offers up information that would be useful […]

I missed this June 28, 2007 BusinessWeek article — CEOs Must Be Designers, Not Just Hire Them. Think Steve Jobs And iPhone — over the summer, when I was in Maine, but thanks to Internet technology (and research, and a love for good design), I found it again. It’s Bruce Nussbaum’s (NussbaumOnDesign) […]

Bought a new Jay Turser JT-133 semi hollow-body guitar this morning, on eBay. Walnut. Should be good. At least a lot of people like the model.
Walked into the local St. Vinny “Dig’n’Save” looking for a cheap patio table. Saw a very cool, low-slung, retro, light oak bed frame for $10, and walked out with it. […]

Today, instead of working on my AR research, I went to the Star Schools weekly meeting, but was told that they didn’t need me there because they were discussing control groups (nothing I’m interested in). So I worked on the curriculum documentation for the Wingra AR game instead — 122 pages and counting.
Then lunch.
Then off […]

[Update, Sep 30th: In retrospect, this is a good idea if the goal is to waste time, because it takes time just to post something. So, I’m not doing it. I am, of course, still wasting time every day.]
As a goal for the semester’s worth of writing that I must do, I promised myself that […]

On WPR this morning, Joy Cardin interviewed Patricia Martin (audio here), and they discussed what Martin, a marketing consultant from Chicago terms the RenGen (Renaissance Generation) –

a cultural movement created by the confluence of art, education, entertainment and business. A powerful new player is at its center: the cultural consumer.
Cultural consumers thrive on […]

Yay, it’s back to looking like what it’s supposed to look like (mostly). I could spend some time making a few more tweaks (e.g. Search box is positioned wrong), or I could just let it go as “good enough” and focus on more important things. While I’m typically not one to let these things go, […]

My thanks to those of you who emailed about the downed blog. And my apologies to any who were at all sad about it being down.
Thanks to Dastryni at Dreamhost for figuring out the culprit was a plugin. I’ve disabled all the plugins, so the blog now loads. And I’ll begin the process of rebuilding […]