Posted: October 7th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: talks | Comments Off
Last week I went to a great lecture by Jan Chipchase, a design researcher for Nokia. His blog has a picture of the audience, look on the left side.
He brought up some very intersting points on cultural relations and design. For example, how do you design a phone for someone who can’t read? Even though his talk was at a very high level, I think he made some strong points and gave a talk in a style I enjoyed. The great photos certainly made the time go even faster.
Posted: October 7th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: google | Comments Off
Ryan’s Library
While I was looking for information on R, the statistics program we’re using in my data analysis/ data mining class, I came across a book in Google Book Search which lets you look at certain pages, depending on the copyright. I saw a link for add to my library, so I tried it. After a short while I had a selection of the books I’ve read over the past few years, sorted, tagged, and stored. While I like my spreadsheet for remembering them, it’s pretty nice to have the a set of covers many with search-able text.
