It's been a whole month since I wrote anything in my blog? What happened? (Or rather, what did not happen?) Well, let's just blame it on Twitter. Or on the new iPhone. Or on two clients wanting … [Read more...]
Let’s be Clear About This – Lots more Laptops will be Stolen
The Clear program at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) has suffered an almost-predictable blow - a stolen laptop computer containing confidential records. Clear is the program that … [Read more...]
Bye Bye SMS
My real-world mixed-reality games were originally built to depend primarily on SMS (AKA "TXT" in the US) messaging. As the years went on (I started this in 2002) I found that I had to develop the … [Read more...]
Access Denied – Which Countries Filter and Why?
·GlobalVoices ADVOCACY has a page they call the Access Denied Map. On it they track visually, including pop-up annotations, countries that prohibit access to web sites. The thing that made the … [Read more...]
Buying an iPhone as Social Event
I spent a really interesting and entertaining four hours in line at the Apple Store in Palo Alto (California, USA) last Friday morning, waiting to purchase an Apple iPhone "3G." I had a great … [Read more...]