Agile in other contexts Many moons ago, I chatted with a woman about utilizing agile in other contexts and have since wanted to see it in action in a non-tech environment. I recently got a grant for a technology-fuelled neighborhood garden and we’…
We applied for the Vancouver Greenest City grant to develop a different type of community garden which you can read about here. We have kicked off the project with the “gold standard” in User Experience Design by conducting some good old-fashioned…
Well, like many things in life, it sprung from the loins of a rant. To be precise, a rant that I indulged in at a local garden center. I just couldn’t understand why gardening shops and greenhouses don’t show you their products in context. Why cou…
It all started with a rant about local and organic food. Well, finding it, specifically. Being immersed in the land that spawned the 100-mile diet, you do kind of feel compelled to source “unevil” foods. I’ve sleuthed down all sorts of venues, mar…
Yesterday I was walking through VPL’s Central Branch (as an aside, Moshe Safdie’s design is one of the few North American libraries that feels truly like a public space instead of a creep-magnet). I spotted some freestanding posters with stickies …
Maybe I’m a strange creature, but there’s a building in this world (and unfortunately located in this fair city of Vancouver) that has the power to change my route purely based on its aesthetic design, especially on any cold or dismal days. I real…
I’ve concluded, much to my dismay, that I lead a fairly rote life most of the time — my commute follows the same path and times, I have my favorite lunch haunts etc. When I did the Myers-Briggs test a number of years ago, my profile included a st…
As I mentioned yesterday, Illustrator went all wonky on me. I repeatedly received this nice little message: All my usual tricks didn’t work. Not even the good old copying and pasting into a new file. Not even starting a totally different file from…
We have this really obnoxious coffee machine at our office. We were already well-acquainted with one another, having encountered each other at a previous office. When I first used it, I really had to scrutinize its menu to figure out how to simply…
My daily commute is often filled with small annoyances that I drown out with either music, email or eBooks. But this time it was different, some cylinder in my brain fired as I contemplated this ill-placed transit map: Plan My Trip Here?! Oh, you …
