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Posts Tagged ‘martial arts’

Better Travelling With Jet Lag Passport

With the attention given to travel lately (Dopplr springs to mind, as well as my own increased flight frequency this year) I thought I’d finally write up my experiences with a jet lag prevention technique called Jet Lag Passport. I was planning my trip to Las Vegas earlier this year when I was approached by [...]

Harmonious Interfaces, Martial Arts and Flow States

There’s been a few posts from the UX community in the recent past on flow states (most notably at 37signals’s Signal vs. Noise). This got me thinking about my own experiences of flow and what this tells me about how flow states could be induced with interfaces. A common example of flow states is when [...]

Back With a Black Label

Just a short post to check in. I arrived back from Vienna this weekend. The week’s training was a lot of fun, very hot and quite successful. I managed to pass all my examinations which means I’m 2nd dan Takeda Ryu aikido now, and have received my assistants-license. Huzzah! I didn’t take that many photos, [...]

Off to Vienna

I’ll be off to Vienna in a few hours. I’ll be training Takeda Ryu for five days at the Matsumae Budo Center and resting my battered body in the Bosei Hotel. The week will include a tournament and some examinations, so I’m excited to see the outcome of those. I’ll be back on the air [...]

Signals From the Leapfrog Offices

Or in other words, what I’ve been up to, besides keeping myself busy over at Info.nl. Reboot 8 is shaping up to be another great conference. I’m already looking forward to seeing Matt Webb and Chris Heathcote speak, among others. I’m also still thinking about doing something myself, the question is: what? While we’re on [...]