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{ Monthly Archives } November 2008

CanUX Forum

I’m still recov­er­ing from three intense days at the Banff Centre, tak­ing part in the CanUX Forum. The ori­ginal motiv­a­tion was to learn more about user exper­i­ence, usab­il­ity, and design. I learned enough about that to fill my brain, and also learned ideas for brain­storm­ing, the rela­tion between cre­ativ­ity and muscle memory, and how sometimes […]

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2008 11 19 Conference Comments (0)

Multi-location brainstorming

In my cur­rent pro­ject at Sun, I’m pro­gram manager/project leader for a team that is spread over sev­eral loc­a­tions. Up till now we’ve man­aged with phone calls and email and wikis and occa­sional phys­ical meet­ings, but with travel budgets being cut, I’d like to explore other ways of col­lab­or­at­ing that give more of the “group […]

2008 11 12 Technology Comments (5)

EWF 2008

The Exec­ut­ive Women’s Forum is a con­fer­ence put on for women involved in inform­a­tion secur­ity at a leadership/executive level, and I had the chance to go for the first time this year. I’ve never been to an all-women con­fer­ence before and although I have mixed feel­ings (it is, after all, inher­ently dis­crim­in­at­ory to exclude men) […]

2008 11 12 Conference Comments (1)

Dawn and Remembrance

Although there’s lots in the paper about it, and people wear­ing pop­pies are every­where, Remem­brance Day seems to have less of a hold over Cana­dian life than Anzac Day in either New Zea­l­and or Aus­tralia. Anzac Day com­mem­or­ates the Anzac (Aus­tralia and New Zea­l­and Army Corps) losses at Gal­lipoli in the First World War on […]

2008 11 11 General Comments (4)

Election Ponderings

As I write this the res­ults of this year’s U.S. elec­tion are not yet known. There are reports of long lines to vote, of people vot­ing who haven’t voted before, this all adds up to a sense that this year is his­toric. Part of it is prob­ably that blogs and the appar­atus around them (searches, […]

2008 11 04 General Comments (2)