Monthly Archives: August 2009

UX Australia 2009 Vox Pops

I spent Wednesday through Friday (and a part of Saturday) meeting, talking and listening to a really interesting bunch of people at the inaugural UX Australia conference. Rather than taking a bunch of notes for the basis of a big write up (I figured there’d be enough people doing that I could link to over [...]

Photohunt Honeycomb: A fun after-hours Alpaca-spotting game for conference attendees in Canberra

Here’s something you won’t see in most cities. Honeycomb the Alpaca has been spotted over the years being walked around Canberra neighbourhoods on foot and being ferried around town in the back of a Mazda 121. He visits nursing homes and hospices. He’s “like portable happiness”. If you’re organising an event in Canberra that’ll have [...]

Total Eclipse of the Chart

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Down in the Basement – 11 Aug 09

Tonight’s playlist featured wet weather blues and fairweather funk.  Didn’t matter if you had the my-housemates-taken-all-the-forks-and-now-I-gotta-eat-steak-with-a-spoon blues, the my-DepSec’s-giving-me-the-shits blues or the I’ll-teach-my-staff-about-colons blues, we had the tunes to take your mind off your day.

Canberra Knights 6 def Penrith Bears 4

Audio reports below the fold…