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Working Commute by Rail

February 15, 2010

I visited Thirlmere yesterday – the centre of Steam Engines in NSW. I didn’t get to ride on any of the engines, but did meet half a dozen people who commute daily to the Sydney CBD to work. This is a two hour commute – in both directions. One person leaves home at 5:30am...
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Use less fuel in city driving

December 9, 2009

Given that expecting motorists to manually start and stop their cars at traffic lights is impractical and unlikely to be widely adopted … How can we stop our cars burning petrol while waiting for a traffic light to go green crawling in city traffic at less than 10km/h Solution Fit cars with a controller...
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CSS Properties (on one page)

July 12, 2009

Check out this persuasive demonstration of CSS properties using the (On on Page) information design pattern:  CSS Sandbox
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SPARQL on one page

July 11, 2009

Check out this very informative page using the (On on Page) information design pattern:  SPARQL FAQ
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The Lightbox Clones Matrix (On One Page)

July 4, 2009

Ozh has created a Lightbox Clones Matrix selection tool that exemplifies many of the qualities of the (On One Page) design pattern.
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(On One Page)

June 26, 2009

Announcing (On One Page)(On One Page) – is an information design pattern aimed at assisting people to master best practice guidelines, policies, procedures and bodies of knowledge.  I have created some examples: New South Wales Health Department’s, Aged Care Assessment Guidelines (On One Page) .  This is sourced from a 144 page book! The...
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Opera Unite and Tier Agnostic Computing

June 16, 2009

Opera has just released Opera Unite web server in the browser technology. Here is analysis by Mashable. Opera Unite is an enabling technology for tier agnostic Request Based Distributed Computing (RBDC). Key issues directly addressed by Opera Unite include: Drivers Build Distributed Applications Provide programmers with a unified programming model (i.e. not deal with...
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