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The online home and (not so) alter(ed)-ego of Ann McMeekin Carrier. New Mum, Photographer, Knitter, Petrolhead, Shoe and Stationery Obsessive and User Experience Consultant at Lab49.

Archive for March 2009

Getting out more

After a year of working from home almost exclusively, I’m going to be spending the next two weeks (maybe longer) working at a client’s offices near Euston. On one hand this is great. With HFBB being away in Poole during the week, if I’m not careful, I can go days without speaking to anyone face [...]

Formula 1

I know who is responsible for my indoctrination into the world of F1, even if I can’t remember exactly which year it was. I know that it became a thing, to plan weekends around the coverage. Saturday lunchtimes are about qualifying, Sundays are all about the race. The build up starts slowly. A lazy sunday [...]

A new philosophy

Matt “Blackbelt” Jones has the right idea. Don’t keep calm and carry on, get excited and make things. I need to put this into practice. Sooner rather than later.

Thought-provoking posts on Accessibility

There have been several really thought-provoking posts about accessibility made over the last week or so, and while I’m marshalling my thoughts (and the several thousand words I’ve written in response) into something coherent, I thought it’d be worth linking to them. Accessibility to the Face from Northtemple Here’s my point–if your brother or sister [...]

TIFI: 19-25 March

Some of the things I found interesting between the 19 and 25 March. Sadly, having roughly 100 tabs open between two windows in Firefox tends to quite seriously bork things, and I lost more than half the tabs I had open. Which, if nothing else, is a reminder that I should clean out the tabs [...]

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