My friend Cheryl has started blogging on enableblogs. She’s written a considered pozt about access issues in the Arts Theatre in Adelaide. Step over there and give a new blogger some support. Introduce yourself. Dave
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PresentedUp
Mike and I did our presso at ConnectingUp today, all went well. I’ve given more info. on my Lifekludger post here. Mike’s got a bit on the presentation here too. Oh, and our podcast was born today.
ConnectedUp – Day 1
UPDATE: Photo posted on Flickr Mike (Learndog-Left) & Dave (Lifekludger-Right) – Thanks Lab for posting the pic. UPATE: I’ve updated the page of links regarding our talk to include the link to the audio of the talk. See that page at lifekludger.net/cu06talk. Well Mike and I gave our long-planned talk at the ConnectingUp 2006 ConferenceContinueContinue reading “ConnectedUp – Day 1”
Tank my ride!
Forget Cam’s lame ‘trick ya stick’ walking stick mod idea from my previous post. Here’s the REAL deal to mods. Yeah baby. Seriously though. If someone can build me a track equipped device I can lock my wheelchair to that I can go on the beach with….give me a yell. Going on beach is theContinueContinue reading “Tank my ride!”
ConnectingUp Podcasts
The PodCast feed for the Connecting Up 2006 Conference – Hyatt Regency Adelaide, South Australia, May 1-2 2006 – is up and running. To subscribe to conference podcasts, tune your ‘PodCatcher’ software to: http://feeds.feedburner.com/cu06podcast You can expect to hear a couple of pre-conference interviews with CISA CEO Doug Jacquier, at least two sessions from theContinueContinue reading “ConnectingUp Podcasts”
Trick ya stick
Over on Cameron’s Brain blog, Cam has a sore toe (poor diddums). He wants to trick-up his walking stick. Make magazine reported on a GPS-enabled walking stick. There’s a video on the Make post that references it – but doesn’t show an exact picture of it. Maybe he could fit it with a tracking deviceContinueContinue reading “Trick ya stick”
Opensource meets the physical world
http://del.icio.us/js/playtagger Kludging on the Radar – Alpha Geelks Hi people. Something a little different. I’ve put together a snippet of a podcast from the Emerging Technology Conference held just last month. This is from ITConversations and is Tim O’reilly speaking about modifying ‘things’. If you’ve seen the Lifekludger Vision as it stands so far…..you’ll understandContinueContinue reading “Opensource meets the physical world”
Ultimate Environmental Control
Just watched a video Hugo Ortega has made about a potential UMPC controlled ‘home Automation’ system that uses IP. By doing so he’s just made my dream of a Horizontal computing solution more real. (By Horizontal I mean while in bed) This whole ‘Home Automation’ thing really is a broad consumer focused edition of whatContinueContinue reading “Ultimate Environmental Control”
On context and openness
“blogging is the opensourcing of ideas” – confused of calcutta. Context is something that bugs me from time to time, and features in Lifekludger. Openness is a more recent ‘fog’ to me. A couple more recent posts from around the place that have got me back thinking about context again, and openness still. In aContinueContinue reading “On context and openness”
Tablet PC – a Lifekludger view
It’s rude not to point Ok here I am typing on the onscreen keyboard of a Tablet PC*. A first for me. The good folks at Tegatech Australia kindly sent me a Tablet to loan and have a bit of a play and see how someone without the use of hands might go using aContinueContinue reading “Tablet PC – a Lifekludger view”
Umbrella rotations
Anybody using a wheelchair will know what it’s like to try and get protection from the rain under a run-o-the-mill circular umbrella. Usually your torso keeps dry while the run-off spills all over your lap! Here’s a great idea – a double umbrella. Only rather than use it in the side-by-side configuration, use it inContinueContinue reading “Umbrella rotations”
Who’s driving who?
Further thoughts around my previous post on Openness is more than an API. Via Beth Kanter I found myself at Christine.net at a post titled “Ramifications of Web 2.0 for Nonprofits with Participatory Applications” covering part of the NTEN 2006 Conference. This bit grabbed my attention : The first intriguing question that came up: DoContinueContinue reading “Who’s driving who?”
Lifekludger does a Hugh
So what’s all this about? Stick around and all will be revealed in a few days.
Spam spam go away
In last couple weeks this blogs been hit hard by comment spam. None of it got through my filters and blacklists etc but I’ve been getting about 100 a week. These are mostly trying to piggy-back onto posts that already have valid comments. New comments on posts that have no existing comments get trapped byContinueContinue reading “Spam spam go away”
Openness is more than an API
Doc’s gone and done it again – got me thinking and linking stuff whirring around in my brain. This time it’s over an email he sent to Nathan Torkington of O’reilly, documented in a post titled “Business as Morality”. Doc Searls: Business as Morality In it, Doc outlines three moralities, however it’s the last oneContinueContinue reading “Openness is more than an API”
Goodbye Horizontal HQ
Had a day off Tuesday. Went to the specialist to have an xray of the broken arm. Last time I have to see him. Apparently the bonmes started to knit and staying in the place it was when all this strarted. Thing is it appears it isn’t, or never has been, lined up where itContinueContinue reading “Goodbye Horizontal HQ”
Classic colour
Where’s all the colour gone Apple? Came across this interesting article in the Metroplolis Magazine (a design mag) focused on the use of colour in Apples computers. I had one of the first Macs they talk about so it was a nostalgia trip for me (and a nice one now I’m trapped in WindowsLand dueContinueContinue reading “Classic colour”
Hands free dialling
Make reports on a telephone that features a built-in PIR motion sensor. If an intruder is detected within a 30 ft. range, TeleSpy calls a preset telephone number and allows you to listen in to the premises. Now, what a cool concept. If this phone was positioned in a certain way and programmed with aContinueContinue reading “Hands free dialling”
The business is about the people!
Okay, caught a glimpse of a link (of the web ‘hyper’ kind) that got my mind linking (of the cerebral kind) all these things together. I’m gonna try and get them down before the latter (cerebral) ones give out on me. Follow the links (web) and try to keep up with my thoughts. I wroteContinueContinue reading “The business is about the people!”
Have ramp will travel
Came across this transportable folding ramp on the excellent how-to site “Instructables”. The ramp looks a beauty…just glue a few strips of emery paper going across this and she’d be non-slip! Great to see sharing like what’s on the Instructables site. I hope Lifekludger blog will be able to share these similar lifekludging how-to’s overContinueContinue reading “Have ramp will travel”
Tuff ipods
Came across this tuff case for iPods called a TuffWrap. It reminded me of the look of those laptops that are used in extreme environments, usually by military and industry. I once heard these toughened laptops are good for kids with disabilities, who can often be very heavy on electronic equipment using it day inContinueContinue reading “Tuff ipods”
Empowering a conversation based on Focused Intention
Caught up with Dr Lloyd Walker today. He was in at where I work with some 5th year biomedical engineering students he gives lectures to about rehabilitation engineering so he dropped by my office. We were talking about the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) bid and the desire to engage people with disabilities, and those whomContinueContinue reading “Empowering a conversation based on Focused Intention”
Truth and Traffic
Seems the net went balistic on a topic with the same title as my last post on Lifekludger only revolving around someone trying to get traffic by offering a bottle with bubble gum stuck to the top on ebay (I purposely am not linking to it). In addition it seems that Popular Science may haveContinueContinue reading “Truth and Traffic”
DIY Bottle Cap Tripod
UPDATE: For my take on how this topic recently went balistic, see the post Truth and Traffic on my personal blog. Back on 14th Feb I posted about a bottle cap that you could buy and turn any bottle into a camera tripod. Today I got a comment on that post from Jake over atContinueContinue reading “DIY Bottle Cap Tripod”
Pledgebank – empower yourself
I came across this site, Pledgebank, via Beth’s blog. What a brilliant idea. A tool to harness the collective will of a group of people! From the Pledgebank site: “We all know what it is like to feel powerless, that our own actions can’t really change the things that we want to change. PledgeBank isContinueContinue reading “Pledgebank – empower yourself”
