La piscine a Colin et Chloé
As odd experiences go, this evening is pretty strange.
Mr Floyd's last words
I saw this picture on Twitter and I wanted to remember, so I typed Mr Floyd’s last words.
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La piscine a Colin et Chloé
As odd experiences go, this evening is pretty strange.
In things Dug cares about,
Building a boat from tree felling to launch in 7 years
I started Googling resources about building wooden boats and came across the Acorn to Arabella project. I was fairly immediately hooked, and am posting here simply to say they’re amazing people and that a boat tha...
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Kayaks and canoes
So after moving to Scotland I found myself buying a Canoe. Over time, this has led to me spending more and more time on the water and camping on beautiful Scottish islands. This was never a plan, but just an accid...
In things Dug cares about,
Have products gotten worse during the decade of the Product Designer?
So have been thinking about how design is operationalised in business and in particular what product design as a discipline has been up to these last few years.
In things Dug cares about,
Their lives are more important than ours
So Mum and I both tested positive the day after Boxing Day.
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Personal data not so personal any more
In theory, under compliance with GDPR, companies that store your “Personal Data” (see https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/) should handle it to a certain standard, including deleting it when it is no longer ...
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Assumptions in product design
So I’m not saying all product designers build on assumptions, but many do.
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A letter from Grandad Jed
As you know kids, Grandad Jed goes through life with a sketchpad shoved down the back of his trousers. Over the years his collection of “Jed’s Red Books” has grown, and occasionally, he sends a photograph of some ...
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What did I learn in 2020?
I may be experienced, but I learn something new pretty much every project I help out with:-)
In things Dug cares about,
Bringing the customer into the room
So I was recently talking to a colleague about the amount of human capital that is wasted as we fly through projects, coming up with great ideas, putting them on the board and moving on to the next challenge. I’ve...
In things Dug cares about,
Manfrotto single arm 2 section plus goPro
So I finally got the old goPro working. Turns out an SD card that fits in the slot can mess up the way the camera works. Who knew, silly me;-)
Testing a workable alternative to a dry-suit?
Special 6 Shirt A design classic developed with the Special Forces. Tested over 30 years in the most hostile conditions. Used by Military, Police, Mountain Rescue Teams.
In things Dug cares about,
Where should service designers be focusing?
It’s only when you get the whole picture, you can fully understand what’s going on.
In things Dug cares about,
Should I build a vision canvas with my stakeholders?
Recently, I’ve been hearing some variation of the following statement quite often…
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This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.
How much experience do you really have with authoritarianism? Any? If you’re a “real” American, you have precisely none.
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Calming influences
I’d forgotten about this walk I took with Steve back when she was wee. Very calming slo-mo. Nothing happens but it’s pretty. I should set it to Ravel or something;-)
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Fishing for plastic bags in boat made of plastic bottles.
Plastic Whale is a movement of people who love doing, creating, making progress. We firmly believe taking action is a positive step forward. What happens next is not always certain, but that’s part of the fun!
In Things Dug Cares About,
The Week in Pictures
Missed the slideshow last week. The internet has been busy and some of the Trump ones are pretty good. Feel like these things had a lot more impact once upon a time…
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Jason on why Apple's appstore deal is not a good thing anymore and why it needs to change. Now.
Good relationships tend to be between consenting adults, or at least people.
In Things Dug Cares About,
Wednesday evening on the Forth (5 miles)
Managed to finish work on time on Wednesday. Nice thing about living in Scotland is it stays light later in summer. Looking out the window as I write this at almost 9pm the sun is still in the sky.
Mr Floyd's last words
I saw this picture on Twitter and I wanted to remember, so I typed Mr Floyd’s last words.
What the Catalina boot volumes - eclecticlight.co
How did I not know about https://eclecticlight.co?
Archival? No, not really...
So way back when, I fell in love with photography (or being a photographer?) and built a darkroom and started using my dad’s SR-T303 (black body, lots of brass showing through, mystical “passed” sticker…) eventual...
In Dug's really old stuff,
The Week in Pictures
This week have been on new project at work with almost no down time, so only picked up a few pictures. One of them is a poem by Helen Woods, aged 12.
In our story,
Comment on @jukesie's Multi-hyphenates post...
@jukesie writes
In Dug's really old stuff, In how we got here,
Happy birthday Kevin Kelly
Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.
The Week in Pictures
This week has me confused by the exchanges on Medium between David Spiegelhalter and Michael Levitt not least because they’re both geniuses who can’t bloody well figure out how to use the comment system on Medium ...
In our story,
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
What sucks about this is Ronnie delivered more debt and more inequality than anyone had managed before. With his invitée Margaret (Thatcher) really moved neoliberal ‘trickle-down’ thinking into the conservative ma...
When the Free™ really aren't
There will come a time when I no longer find myself getting depressed about the behaviour and beliefs of the American People every. single. day. and I can write and think about other things for a change.
Happy Birthday Brenda...
So #QueenElizabeth, my Dad was a scout at your coronation and his family has felt you close to them over the years, starting with your broadcasts during the blitz (he was in Golders Green then) and continuing over...
Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford Uni stringency index
The UK Government’s response stringency does not change during the time between under 10 to 100 cases.
Are home-sewn cloth masks becoming a thing?
The United States Center for Disease Control is publishing instructions with sewing patterns to produce homemade cloth masks
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Something soothing and pleasant for a Friday afternoon...
So I saw this on twitter and had to grab it. Nice picture:-)
Image files that start with 'M'
rediscovering an /images/ directory on a backup drive with almost 20 years of internet stuff continues to give me a bit of wonder. Continuing my random selection, here are images whose first letter is “M”…
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Pointers for the next White House presser...
Mr. President, are you saying Nancy Pelosi or indeed the Editor of the New York Times carries the primary responsibility for the safety and security of the American People?
