by Jono Bacon | Sep 18, 2005 | Uncategorized
Had a superb birthday yesterday; thanks for all of your birthday wishes. I am pleased to report that with the help of the bald, I got my SIP phone plugged in and working. It is all working a treat. 🙂 I have just written and released a new O’Reilly Weblog article...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 17, 2005 | Uncategorized
Wow, 26 years old. This one crept around a bit quicker than usual; I think this happens when you start the process of old-fartification. The mystery present from Sooz was a suberb VoIP phone. Sooz always gets me cool presents – I had not been asking for a VoIP...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
Kat, I do think formalised education does have a place, but I think your comments are really taking about the huge benefits of mentoring. I am a big fan of mentoring, and anyone who was lucky enough to have a good lecturer benefits greatly working with an...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
Good night last night. Luckily woke up this morning without too much of a hangover. Props to Ron for a great talk about Asterisk. 🙂 Donald Norman speaks the truth. I am also getting a little tired of the fanfare pushed towards Google regarding usability. There is no...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 14, 2005 | Uncategorized
This morning I did a presentation about building dynamic websites with the LAMP platform. The seminar was well attended and the response was positive. We also managed to unload a load of Ubuntu Hoary CDs onto the unwitting delegates. One of the slides in the...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 13, 2005 | Uncategorized
Seems to be an interesting day for usability. With the unveiling of the Office 12 interface, its balance of aesthetics and usability seems rather contrived. Taking a look at the shots, it seems like a step back in usability in some areas. Take a look at the following...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 13, 2005 | Uncategorized
I have been thinking recently about usability in different places. As an example, a few weeks back I was astounded by the usability problems with my bank. Apart from the fact that they don’t know their arse from their collaborative elbows (how can someone who...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 11, 2005 | Uncategorized
Wow, check it out, Linux Desktop Hacks in French: You will be pleased to know that there were no deaths whatsoever at the hands of my cooking. Aside from a slightly rubbery pasta, it went pretty well. The good news in the cooking department is that I am getting better...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 9, 2005 | Uncategorized
Firstly, thanks for the fantastic contributions on the TV out issue. It is great to see some decent hands-on advice. It seems that I need to explore a means of getting a higher quality (maybe RGB?) signal out of the MythTV box to my TV. My boss Scott has concocted a...
by Jono Bacon | Sep 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
Last night I poked around looking at MythTV some more. Thanks to the kind folks in the mythtv-users channel on freenode, they answered my questions. I am now well on the way to understanding how I am going to build this baby. One point that did concern me a little was...
