Image via the trickledown This quote really resonates with me. Working in advertising, I’m expected to keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies and assess if they are right or indeed, relevant to any of my clients. Time and again, I see that just because something’s the latest thing doesn’t mean it’s [...]
There’s An App For That
The boyfriend and I have been away in Israel for the last week (more on that in upcoming posts) and serendipity brought us three iPhone apps that became (to varying degrees) very useful in our travels. It goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that all of these need to become Blackberry apps soon, [...]
If I Can’t Hear You, I’ll Lip Read
Wearing hearing aids is a very odd thing. As much as they’ve taught me a lot about myself, they’ve taught me a lot about other people, mainly that there is an intense fascination with ‘otherness’ . Here’s the back story: I have a degenerative hearing disorder which has left me with about 60% of my [...]
Sunning Myself in Mars
Mars24 is a really cool downloadable tool for all you astronomy fanboys and girls out there. It displays the Mars sunclock, a graphical representation of Mars and a readout of the time in 24-hour format, amongst many other cool things. You can also use the program to display a panoramic view of where the [...]
