Doctor's Note

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

Snaps for my students

Nice to see one of my students, Tim Rudder getting some interest on Tween for the music clip, Alicia, he’s just finished for his final year project with …

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 …