Paris B-A

The personal domain of Paris Buttfield-Addison, opinionated bastard, HCI graduate researcher, author and co-founder of Secret Lab. I teach people things, write books and research papers, develop iPhone and iPad apps and games, and wander the world looking for coffee.

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California; PhD; Google & HTC’s Nexus One

I’m in California again for work! It is raining heaps and I’m really enjoying it. Half of Secret Lab’s clients are now in the Bay Area. PhD is coming along slowly (but smoothly!) Gadget wise: So, I’m using a Nexus One now. Review to come (uncharacteristically I plan to review the thing!) In short: win. [...]

Why 2009 was a good year for movies

Update 21/01/2010: added Zombieland! Another post of no substance! Why 2009 was an above-average year for movies, in no particular order: District 9 Watchmen Coraline Up Star Trek Moon Inglourious Basterds Avatar Zombieland document.getElementById(“post-180-blankimage”).onload();

New domain; paris.id.au

Greetings! New domain! You can now find this site at http://paris.id.au – although, if you’re here, you’ve already figured that out! document.getElementById(“post-57-blankimage”).onload();

LCA 2009 is over!

linux.conf.au 2009 finished yesterday in Hobart. It was run at my home university, UTAS. A great time was had by all. The three keynotes were all pretty interesting and there was a great spread of talks over all of the miniconfs and during LCA itself.  My favourite talks were, in no particular order: Did Hell [...]