Liesl Barrell

For those of you wondering (and there are fewer of you each day, Google tells me), I have not been blackmailed into silence by the Interacting with Print secret society. And the less said about my absence, the better (the interwebs are brimming with ‘Oh blog, how I neglected thee!’ posts.) Suffice it to say that: [...]

Today (March 24) the blogosphere honours Ada Lovelace, considered the first ever computer programmer (and daughter of poofy-shirted poet Byron, no less). Charles Babbage nicknamed her The Enchantress of Numbers, and she kicked algorithmic ass for his Analytical Engine back in the pre-natal days of computing. A Web of One’s Own But what’s really neat [...]

You may have noticed my posts have dwindled to once a week as of late. Of course you noticed, it makes you angrier than a piechart missing recovered profits… Well, there is a reason for the cruel halving of my post time, and the reason is actually rather awesome: it’s First Person Digital. Thatchers Abound [...]

One of the only good things about being stuck in two airports and a plane this holiday season, was that I got to read the current issue of Wired cover to cover in one sitting (in addition to completing many crosswords, notes on my content plan for this blog, listening to music, and staring intently [...]