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I went to the PayPay Developer Day at The Grace Hotel yesterday, which was described as the launch of  a community for PayPal developers in Australia, the first country outside the US (and Canada?) to participate.  I’ve since noticed the UK in there as well. Since they rightly recognised that developers are their front line [...]

A Social Media Consultant, a PR consultant, two agency specialists and a client walk into a bar….. Sounds like an 50′s style joke doesn’t it? At Social Media Club Sydney two a few weeks ago (I know, I am soooo slack! I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while now) the talk was [...]

Am I the only one who seems to get upset at the massive open-air refrigerators in grocery stores? My local council introduced a scheme to reduce the use of plastic bags, called “bagbusters” in the neighbourhood, for obvious reasons, and you can read the press release by downloading the PDF from their site. But to [...]

After my rant last week about restaurant sites that don’t take users into account, just like London busses, three good ones come along at once! I didn’t want to leave you thinking I was all whinge and no praise so decided to write about them here. We were looking for a good Indian food or [...]

We’re not individuals all of the time; we’re occasionally herd animals, sometimes like flotsam sometimes like wheat, and yes, occasionally the lone wolf. I’ve been noticing how people behave when a train’s approaching. Ok, it is usually during rush hour, with that 8am grogginess or 6pm urgency that I notice this, but it’s a valid [...]

I’ve been watching you. I mean, I like watching you. I mean, you’re interesting to watch. I’m digging myself a hole, aren’t I? I like to watch people using technology in a public place, to see how considered their planning might have been, just like I like to watch people use websites, to learn how [...]

One thing I am extremely passionate about, are sites that include a crucial process, like joining membership or soliciting feedback or making a purchase, that think about what I might feel about their process. I can’t stand form fields with conditions (i.e.: username requires special characters) that I’m not told about until the form fails, [...]

WordCamp Australia day2 After a great day at Word Camp Australia, my personal highlight of day two was definitely Harley Alexander of Baffle! inc who gave a fun and entertaining presentation on a simple but complex (yes, I just wrote that!) concept, WP_Query versus Query_posts. The great thing for me was that he is 15, [...]

WordCamp Australia, Day 1 Only about 75 people here, in a small hangar like cavern, quite appropriately called the big red box in canal street, Sydney. (Sorry, gotta complete my wordpress upgrade before I add the images!) On the bus home, hired macbook on my lap (don’t get me started on how my MacBookPro died [...]