Archive for January 2008

24 Jan 2008 1232H

Apple Airport Extreme Base Station

I picked up this wifi base station at the Fry’s the other day while shopping for some networking parts for my dad, and the big difference switching to 802.11n, I think, is the amount of capacity that I can now put through the network. I have connected my media drive to the USB port, which [...]

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19 Jan 2008 0909H

Homaru Cantu cooks raccoon

I know I promised to take the food blog stuff out of EID here, but, words cannot describe, so I’m just going to link to it and hope for the best. Monica Eng brings raccoon to Homaru Cantu, the engineer-chef of Chicago’s famed Moto, and he creates a miniature roadkill scene from it. Enjoy.

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19 Jan 2008 0900H

How to decipher your natural gas bill

Was going through a pile of newspapers the other day and found this really interesting infographic on the redesign of Cleveland area gas bills, thanks to the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s John Funk. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, believe it or not, kicks major ass when it comes to infographics. Check it out.

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19 Jan 2008 0842H

Astronomy book for the blind

Via NPR the other day, it doesn’t do justice to the book, “Touch the Invisible Sky,” to say it’s merely an astronomy book for the blind, but there are fantastic images used to communicate the world beyond our world, images that the blind can’t obviously see. How then to communicate the majesty of space when [...]

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15 Jan 2008 1322H

Macworld Keynote ‘08 metatalk

11:49:16 AM Me: nothing much compelling here on macworld keynote so far
11:49:24 AM E.: just connecting to it now.
11:49:46 AM E.: appreciate the airport hard drive upgrade
11:50:10 AM Me: that makes sense but there still isn’t a culture of backups around yet
11:50:24 AM E.: it just takes one bad day to fix that
11:51:31 AM Me: [...]

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15 Jan 2008 1319H

Macworld ‘08; Starbucks; Good to Great

No telling what’ll happen this week. Movie rentals on the iTunes Store? Eh. Would put a cork in the non-debate that is HD-DVD vs. Blu Ray, since frankly people are bypassing it all via direct downloads off P2P networks. So, if it ain’t broke, why fix it? I’d like to see iPhone rolled out to [...]

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10 Jan 2008 0931H

the Tata People’s Car

I’ve talked a lot about cars here in the past, mostly small cars, and how cars represent a design challenge because of their impact on the environment and users and usage contexts and the like. So, by now people probably have heard all about Tata Motors’ bargain basement car, Rp1 lakh/$2500, comes with nothing but [...]

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10 Jan 2008 0854H

The persistence of memory

Welcome to 2008. Information architects, like the library and archive sciences that spawn them, are particularly anal-retentive, or so it is commonly believed. And so, organization, retention, making order out of everyday chaos is one of our main tasks. But what does it mean for our work when we begin to externalize our memory using [...]

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05 Jan 2008 2319H

Moving over

In essence, there is no easy way to migrate content from this blog to the way that HostMySite has it setup on my domain name, save painstakingly exporting using the built-in RSS feed generator for each archive page, then importing them back into the new blog which was itself a learning process.
But that work took [...]

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