Although she *does* come by it honestly… š
GeoGuessr is a pretty fun online game where it shows you a random location from Google Street View and then you zoom in and click on a world map to guess where you are with points being assigned based on how close you are to the actual location. There are no “rules” per se but […]
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. It’s a day to consider how people with disabilities experience the web, software, mobile devices, games and so on, targeted towards designers, developers, usability professionals and others without much experience with accessibility. There areĀ public events scheduledĀ all over the world, as well asĀ other accessibility-related events. To participate on your own, […]
My life has developed over the years to a point where I endeavour to lead my life and make my decisions from a place that’s focused on using evidence, science, skepticism and facts to determine how I understand and interact with the world. Ā This is the culmination of many things coming together – my lifelong […]
I, too, used to do this… …until I realised there was a better way. For the love of Dog, people, turn your camera phones sideways! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA
Back to work today after two and a half weeks at home with the new baby is pretty tough. I keep telling anyone who’ll listen that I’m really jealous of two guys I know who are both relatively new dads – one is a University professor who (I assume on purpose) timed his sabbatical year […]
This is brilliant…although if Sasha’s anything like her big brother, she’d find a way to pee on the iPad instead of the pot. Ā (A co-worker still brings up the story we told him when Pace was a toddler of Pace standing in our living room and peeing on our VCR!) (via /r/Daddit)
A few different shots in honour of perhaps the nerdiest day of the year: I’m not a programmer but via a handy online interface, was able to create my own watchface for my “21st Century Calculator Watch“. Ā There’s also a web site with lots of other cool watchfaces others with greater skills than my own […]
Lots of cool ideas on this list.
The police often get the short end of the stick in terms of public perception but stories like this one show there are definitely good cops out there. In my line of work, itās not often that you can arrest somebody on multiple occasions and end up being friends with them. On the flip side […]
