Archives for March, 2005

In memory of Jacques Cousteau

This evening my Dad and I went to see Wes Anderson's fantastic The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. It seems difficult to go wrong with anything ...


East Dulwich: is a classic example of a laste Victorian suburb had a cinema between 1938 and 1972 (the building was demolished in 2003) was bombed heavily in ...


Design is no accident

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident. Emil Ruder Typography See entry about ...


Children learn what they live

If children live with criticism, They learn to condemn. If children live with hostility, They learn to fight. If children live with ridicule, They learn to be shy. If children live ...


Sounds like the sun is out

Winter is finally on the wane. The clouds are whiter and whispier and there's sunshine. Sitting in the office yesterday with the window slightly open, I ...


Sunday circuit

Good run... Up Dunstans Road and turn left (South) on to Lordship Lane Opposite Harvester on South Circular go through gate and up Cox's Walk to Dulwich ...


Stuart Beebe: "Societies do what societies think" Originally uploaded by PhilWolff.


This from David Weinberger via Euan: Open, transparent environments are more secure and more stable than closed, opaque ones. While Internet services can be interrupted, the Internet ...


Where to put stuff

Chatting to my friend Claire earlier about having cleared my inbox thanks to Mark Hurst's very handy guide to Managing incoming email. We talked about how, ...


Gestalt formula

"The fundamental 'formula' of Gestalt theory might be expressed in this way. There are wholes, the behaviour of which is not determined by that of ...


Broken

Great idea: This is broken "A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it." Amongst the hundreds of posts is ...


A designated quiet area

Sign on train today... Just wondering... what constitutes using a mobile phone these days? I read the news on mine today quite happily (and quietly). If I'd ...


Stringplayers

Kate's parents met at one of these...


Loosability

Buttons to operate toilet door on board train today... Just wondering... how do you know when it's locked?


Follow your bliss

If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the ...


Getting there…

I'm starting to narrow in on what to write about when I do my Masters At the moment it's looking like: The application of Gestalt theory in ...