antoin@eire.comNews, views and a little bit more.A business video and podcast- January 14, 2008 Fergal Quinn on Crowning the Customer and providing great service David Allen on Getting Things Done (via Damien Mulley)http://www.eire.com/2008/01/14/a-business-video-and-podcast/ No free wi-fi in Dublin- January 10, 2008 No free wi-fi in Dublin. No surprise there really - using state money to undercut commercial operators is just not a great way to spend money, even if you have it, which Dublin City Council simply does not. There is still no reason why Dublin City Council could not help with deploying FON. Plenty of other ...http://www.eire.com/2008/01/10/no-free-wi-fi-in-dublin/ Reviewing the signage on Irelands motorway system- January 7, 2008 This article on the UK Design Museum site tells the story of the British motorway and general road signage system, designed by Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert. It begins: Determined to illustrate the haphazard state of British road signage at the turn of the 1960s, the graphic designer Herbert Spencer drove from central London to the ...http://www.eire.com/2008/01/07/reviewing-the-signage-on-irelands-motorway-system/ HCI and table-top computing- January 7, 2008 A well-thought out set of research on the topic, involving Stanford and Microsoft. Not just idle curiousity, related to a project I&8217;m currently working on.http://www.eire.com/2008/01/07/hci-and-table-top-computing/ Video conferencing- January 7, 2008 This is a good article about why video conference does and doesn&8217;t work.http://www.eire.com/2008/01/07/video-conferencing/ |