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Designing for yourself

We were recently discussing some quotes from Apple man Steve Jobs around the office, where he talked about his philosophy when it comes to design:
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

BusinessWeek, May 25 1998

So you can’t go […]

1 year abroad!

Time sure has flown for me. For the most part, it’s been a spectacular year…
A short list of highlights (and the odd low point):

Travelling through 11 countries spanning four continents (so far)
Scuba diving in Thailand and Vietnam
Like, pretty much all of Mexico
Having my laptop stolen in Peru
Still in Peru, kicking arse on the Inca Trail […]

Mexico City, Mexico

Having settled in here in London I must admit I miss Mexico. Quite a bit. What an awesome place to visit. Mexico was the culture shock and the push out of our comfort zone that we had been craving toward the end of our time in the States. It was the first place where, by […]

Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

On January 9, we took a bus to a small agricultural port on the Mekong River from Phnom Penh and got on a boat and headed towards the Vietnamese border with a small group of travellers headed for Saigon. Pretty early on I realised that Vietnam would be one of the highlights of this holiday.
Day […]

Travel plans

Okay, so from here on for a fair while this blog will contain more and more posts about travel in the lead up to, and obviously during, Meg’s and my big ’round the world trip in November. I’ll still be adding the odd geek article wherever I can, and if I manage to get to […]