We went to Ferrara Homestyling to pick out some toilets and sinks. Beer and burgers were the reward. Shot these clips in Instagram for some reason and assembled them in Quik. Also cut them up for sharing on Instagram Stories. …
Should I really have bought a new camera?
You never use the cameras you have as much as you do when there's a new one ordered and on the way. I've just bought a Panasonic LX10 online to take the place of my 6(!) year old Sony RX100mk1—a …
Autumn in Japan, and some observations
We paid Tokyo and Osaka a visit last fall, following up on my life’s goal of visiting Japan at least once every two years, and nothing disappointed — not the food, people, weather, galleries, nor multi-storey complexes designed to make …
2017 Japan Snack Reports
Continuing a Japan holiday tradition... making videos of my daily konbini snack raids. Recently a few colleagues found these on my YouTube and thought it'd be funny to put them up on the giant Microsoft Surface Hub we have. I …
Listening, Remembering: a 2017 Playlist
In the early days of this blog and being online, I’d make mixes and upload them somewhere for friends and readers. Those were usually one and the same, who am I kidding? Personally, I hardly have time to listen to …
Fjord Equinox 2017
In work-related news (doesn't happen very often here), I recently joined Fjord, a design and innovation agency that's now part of Accenture Interactive, and one of their longstanding traditions is an annual “learning summit” that everyone travels to attend. This …
Melbourne, June 2017
In the midst of a busy June, between jobs and dealing with a massive electrical wiring failure where we live, there was time for a week in Melbourne where it’s currently winter. Being one of the few places in the …
Singapore Gets An Apple Store
Finally. After years of waiting, Singapore got its own Apple Store on Orchard Road (where else?) in May of 2017. I’ve been in the ecosystem for about 14 years now, and getting good sales service and support from third-party resellers …
The Trouble with Instagram Stories
I enjoyed reading this TechCrunch interview with Kevin Systrom where he openly gave credit to Snapchat for their ‘Stories’ feature, and talked about how copying it for Instagram inevitably created something different. What I’ve observed matches much of what’s been …
Two Weeks in New York
How’s everyone doing? I recently went to New York for the first time ever, and did a bunch of touristy things. It was also my first time in the U.S. in over a decade, and maybe overestimated how bad the …
iOS 10 Makes the Timeline UI a Reality
Wired: Apple May Have Figured Out the iPhone's Most Promising Feature 3D Touch is instrumental to Apple’s newly rethought lock screen, in a way that could fundamentally change how you interact with your iPhone. But with iOS 10, you’ll use …
“Onions” Breaks One of Apple’s Oldest Advertising Rules
Apple’s new iPhone ad departs from some of their oldest and most inspiring advertising by making fun of what customers do.
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