Andy Polaine
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Writing & Thinking
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 …
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 …
3D Graffiti
One of my (most brilliant) ex-students, Gaby, just sent me this link from a friend of hers in France who does graffiti. It’s a bullet-time style version …
COFA Annual (2005)
Role: Interactive Director/Producer The Annual CD-ROM for the College of Fine Arts is always a significant logistical and creative undertaking. With almost 400 …
Sony breach copyright to prevent copyright infringement
Per Johan Johansen, code reverse engineer par excellence (he reversed-engineered much of Apple’s iTunes Music Store DRM code) has discovered Sony have …
RDC theme
I got a bit tired of the old Kubrick theme and I still have not managed to find the time to design something different. So I’m borrowing the RDC theme by …
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Lost for music? Try Pandora.
Okay lots of bloggers have been raging about Pandora recently. It’s come from the Music Genome Project and is brilliant example of collaborative filtering …
Xooglers
Ex-Googlers Doug Edwards and Ron Garrett have set up the Xooglers blog. It makes fascinating reading for anyone who has ever been involved in a dotcom …