Doctor's Note

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

Adolf. Not a popular name after 1940s.

We were looking around at the popularity of names the other night and amusingly stumbled across this graph. What’s weird is the change of heart around …

Finally moved to WordPress

Okay, I’ve finally moved Playpen over to WordPress (hence the default-ish) theme (see footer for credits) for now. I have set up Alex King’s mt-wp …

Where Old Media Go To Die

Take a trip down Memorex Lane with Cassette Jam ‘05. I remember these Teac cassettes well. I thought they were the word in their day. Thanks to Toby for …

Food, Fabrica, Cameron

I just stumbled across the Fabrica blogs mainly due to the link to the old antirom photo that I blogged the other day. Then, of course, I found Andy …

New iPod and iTunes movie downloads - is the TV party over?

A few months back I wrote a post asking whether Apple were coming to the BitTorrent party and when iTunes Movie Store might open. It now has. This, it seemed to …

More scary historical photographs

I also found this photo in the Videobrasil archives. Rather scary in places and we all look so fresh-faced. Check out the nerdy bloke with glasses sitting at …

Antirom at Videobrasil

I just got mailed by Videobrasil to say they have put together a database of all of their festivals. It was a very pleasant trip down memory lane to see the …