by David | May 25, 2012 | reading & writing, technology, working
Do they teach email writing in school? They certainly did not when I was in school, perhaps because there was no email back then. I suspect they still dont’t teach anything about email except maybe how to change the fonts and click the send button. I’m...
by David | May 22, 2012 | design, working
I’m standing at the coffee bar at Dwelltime, not because I’m a pretentious euro-snob sipping my espresso, but in protest of the absurd edict of the cambridge city council about the number of seats allowed in this establishment. Then it occurred to me,...
by David | Apr 13, 2012 | media, science!, working
So we were hiring an intern. Hiring might be a strong word since we’re not planning to pay this intern, but I digress. So I’m reviewing resumes and sometimes if somebody looks promising, I check out his or her Twitter account. It is at least in part a...
by David | Mar 28, 2011 | working
Apparently, it’s time for my biennial office shuffle, as in the spring of 2009’s deckchair destiny and the great cube shuffle of 2007, we’re moving the office. But this time, just after we got everything packed up and labeled, a last-minute hitch...
by David | Feb 22, 2011 | design, working
Whether you manage a global brand or just run a dinky little blog like this one, you’ve probably at one time or another thought to yourself, “it’s time to redesign the logo/website/theme/brand.” Here are some reasons why you were probably...
by David | Apr 16, 2010 | culture, reading & writing, working
I was editing a blog post at work the other day – it may surprise you to learn that writing this blog is not my job – and I amended “the data says” to “the data say” because as everybody pedant knows, “data” is the...
