I began my career as a field ecologist on the remote shores of Hudson Bay, where I spent between two and four months off the electrical grid for five successive summers (1980-84). That's me at far left, with a rifle for polar bear protection. A generator charged the car battery that powered the radio that […]
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Digital Divide Chronicles Part 1
Before leaving Toronto for 4 months, I worked pretty solidly over Christmas and New Year to finish as much paperwork as possible. It's still not all done. My preparations also included buying a new laptop, because the excellent MacBook Air that I bought in 2011, was clearly approaching the end of its life. Sometimes it […]
When to be an Early Adopter and when to be a Laggard: Part 1
This is an updated repost from the Madeleine Ewins A Day in the Life blog, that I guest-authored in August 2013. Since then, I discovered an amazing book all about Apple design from the early days, to the present, called Iconic. It's by Jonathan Zufi who founded the website, Shrine of Apple. (I'm not kidding! It's […]
