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Then there’s our building. Steve Jobs basically designed this building. In the center, he created this big atrium area, which seems initially like a waste of space. The reason he did it was that everybody goes off and works in their individual areas. People who work on software code are here, people who animate are there, and people who do designs are over there. Steve put the mailboxes, the meetings rooms, the cafeteria, and, most insidiously and brilliantly, the bathrooms in the center — which initially drove us crazy — so that you run into everybody during the course of a day. [Jobs] realized that when people run into each other, when they make eye contact, things happen. So he made it impossible for you not to run into the rest of the company.

About the Pixar building. Brad Bird describes how the use of physical space leads to interaction. I’m thinking about College buildings and how staff rooms can be used to improve communications in education.

You can buy the big box and get a tea towel and a DVD with your tea bags. There is only one catch…

Don’t you love that phrase? ‘Not suitable for use in Apple slot drives’? That is 80% of the product range and 90%+ of sales guys!!

Looking out towards Cradley Heath hill and the television transmitter – I realised that none of the buildings would have been visible in 1759 when Perrott had the tower built. Nice to see this 97 foot tall one room wide tower being used for exhibitions. The deer parks and heath land were built over to give us the city we see now, but this strange tower survived.

Bodmas has been upgraded to Wordpress v2.5 from v1.5 following the WordPress Codex instructions and all appears to be well apart from some theme issues. There should be a small image below (actually of the ‘Drama Triangle’ from a paper on transactional analysis of all things).

The fancy new media library isn’t working so I’ve had to use an older plug-in. The media library looks like a good feature so I will be trying to sort it out.