Doctor's Note

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

Off to India

I’m off to India for about ten days, so no blogging for me. I’ll be steering clear of Internet cafés too! Photos when I return. (This one from the …

Voice from The Void - the Blogosphere is alive and well

Oh, the irony of it all. After my post about Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void not responding to my mails and posts, I got a comment from Hugh: “I suppose I …

Vice President Dogsbody - the rise of misleading job titles

I just saw a job ad today for “Vice President of General Duties”. Vice President? So what are these general duties then? They must be pretty …

Dog with flowers

] Saw this dog on some steps the other day. It looked like it was wearing flowers in its hair and posing. I couldn’t resist a photo.

The Void in Gaping Void - What to do when blogs become victims of their own success?

I’ve been having an interesting conversation with Euph recently in the comments of my previous post about the SoundPryer and it’s led me to ruminate …

3G Phones go Wi-Fi - so what's the future for mobile telcos?

Interesting to read this story from Wendy Grossman on Wired today about the British company, Cambridge Silicon Radio and their new Wi-Fi chip, UniFi, aimed at …

Fleabilly - the extraordinary in the ordinary

I have just written a new article for Desktop (Issue 200) about photographer, artist, compositor, Ray Lewis. The boyfriend of my lovely pal Rachel, he’s …