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  • My favourite MP3 player of all time

    Sleek, light, shiny perfection. It worked, stored almost 4GB of songs, didn’t get updates that slowed it down to a crawl, and didn’t require your facetime all that much.

  • wtf gmail contacts?

    So this probably got implemented awhile ago, but how the blazes are you supposed to know that contacts are found by clicking on the Gmail word with the tiny arrow? This is an example of trying to minimise the interface at the cost of usability, with negative results.

  • Ready for liftoff?

    This washing machine looks like you need a degree in rocket science to start a wash cycle! Seriously, if you had to guess at which buttons and dials you needed to operate, in which sequence, and the logic behind some of the groupings is, how would you fare?

  • Coffee anyone?

    I know this is an established design, but I bet most people don’t understand the affordance in this lid for getting liquid out and into your cup.

  • Going down?

    This was in a shopping mall elevator in Turku, Finland. Can you figure out how the buttons relate to where you need to go?!

  • Marks and Spencer self checkout

    This one has bugged me for a while. Seems like a disconnect between the software and the planning of the self-checkout terminal. Here’s what happens: You scan in your items You choose to pay (by card) You are asked to insert your card, so you move to the card reader and gaze at it… Meanwhile,…

  • Papa’s got a brand new bag

    The old John Rocca was getting a bit too funky, upgraded to a nice Marimekko bag!

  • Weezer in 8-bit

    This is just awesome, any 30 somethings out there will remember trying to make some tunes on the C64 and the like…of course these songs are a little better than what I achieved. Link

  • The Rules of Travelling

    During our trip in South America we always joked about the Rules of Travelling: basic rules of thumb that ensure that you get the most out of your travels with the least amount of hassle/pain/irritation, especially when backpacking. These will also work on city trips. The Rules have been developed and refined on the numerous…

  • Back from down South

    South America that is- Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Peru. 6 weeks of truly inspired travel, amazing sights, hairy bus rides, deadly rides….the blogging continued on another site…now I’m back, new flat, time to make money again…

  • More pics

    The backlog is going up online at last – back in the land of fast connections, hurrah. Final posts will be up later….cheers!

  • Lake Titicaca

    We just got back from a cool trip on Lake Titicaca, the famous body of water that borders Bolivia and Peru. We took a boat out and visited the man made reed Islands of Uros, and then continued on to the lovely Island of Amantaní, where we stayed with a local family that put us up…