The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

Month: August, 2009

Less mousing around

Interesting post giving an account of computing with limited use of the mouse from someone who has a recurring injury disability

disability access is like organic fruit

Not that long ago, the origin of the fruit and veggies in our supermarkets was a lot less important to the general populous than it is now. Barring the scandals of oil spills and contamination reports we supermarket shoppers were largely content to believe that the fruit and vegetables that were being presented to us [...]

Say it in seconds

Brevity may be the order of the day for our PM, but ultimately what they say is more important.

On Writing

From the aptly titled Write when inspired
If you want to be great, or at least to be better, start by breathing, taking breaks, and working intensely when the mood is on.

so, so yesterday

In a vague half hearted attempt to find blog statistic tracking tools for this blog I found this. It’s a discussion of the trends around blogging; whose doing it, whose reading them, how often people update and burn out rates. Its an interesting read which traces the rise and it believes fall of the phenomena. [...]

how good is this

Just for something different. See here for explanation. It’s my desktop image now.  via Jason

Getting things done …. dude

If you know me, especially off-line  probably know that I am a fan and practitioner of the Getting Things Done methodology by David Allen. Here is one guys’ approach to it on a Mac. I might one day do my own explanation of my system, but for the moment this is funny and wise!
via Twitte

The [...]

The Michael Jackson thing

Despite the fact that I am of the right generation, Michael Jackson’s music never really grabbed me. I knew and liked one or two of the more popular songs, though, at the risk of sounding like an old woman as a teenager most of his music was too fast for me. Although, once reviewed, his [...]

The wheels of the bus

The last few weeks have been quite remarkable. Remarkable in a good way I hasten to add. My experiences with mass transit have worked. Consistently. Seamlessly. They just have.
The ramps of the rear loading buses have largely worked; and, on the few occasions when they haven’t worked first time the drivers have tried a few [...]