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 [...]
Tagged canux08In 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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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