Doctor's Note

A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.

Playpen upgraded to Wordpress 2.0

Playpen has now been upgraded to Wordpress 2.0 largely without pain. In fact, without any pain at all, although I was particularly careful to back-up everything …

Wordpress 2.0 released

So, Wordpress 2.0 or “Duke” has been released. It now has a WYSIWYG Editing system using AJAX thanks to TinyMCE and a whole host new integrated …

Tried Pandora? Now try Tunatic.

I recently posted about Pandora, the online tool that looks for music that is similar to a track or artist name you enter. It’s great, by the way, and …

Kate Moss Interiors - vacuum those powders...

My COFA colleague, Simon Hunt, mailed me this very amusing pic today. He writes: Taken with my phone the other day, just off Elizabeth St in Surry Hills… …

Lost Pictures Found, Recoverd from Compact Flash

Like many idiots over the holidays I accidentally deleted a few pictures from my digital camera’s Compact Flash card. I was walking around repeatedly …

Best 50 All Time Gadgets

Okay, so I did blog on Christmas Day, but hey, it’s bit like reading the papers or watching James Bond movies isn’t it? As it’s Christmas I …

Christmas Zeitgeist news from Google

Gotta love Google. They’ve posted their 2005 Zeitgeist report noting our search trends around the world. The top Google News searches of 2005 are …