Archive for 2005

Information access?

Wednesday, April 6th, 2005

The Business School hack has highlighted issues of definition around access to information. The (US based) article in The Register by Mark Rasch reports the facts as follows…

Some US business schools farm out processing of Web based applications to a third party Web company
Someone identified a security hole in the system used to process the [...]

The Teddy

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

“Teddys would be with their user for their entire lives. They would change in shape and form to match the growing sophistication and interests of the person, but each time someone got a new model Teddy, the information from the earlier version would be transferred to the new. As a result, Teddy would always retain [...]

Being Analog(ue)

Monday, April 4th, 2005

Don Norman is the other half of Nielsen and Norman the usability consultants. He has provided Chapter 7 of his book The Invisible Computer as a Web reading. The title of the chapter is Being Analog – which we as humans are… You can also read other chapters on the MIT Press site and [...]

Blog upgraded to Strayhorn

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

This blog is now running on Wordpress strayhorn using a theme munged from the WordPress classic. Ultimately, I’ll be running the whole site from this blog.

The upgrade was as simple as suggested. Nice one chaps.

Water

Thursday, March 17th, 2005