Custom Shelves Pt1

I pretty much live at my desk, both at work and when at home.  When I'm not working at home, I'm probably playing games, faffing with personal software development, personal development, catching up with friends / family or just plain surfing around on the web achieving nothing.  I also have lots of "junk".  It's not junk, of course, it just has specific place and purpose; "place" being mostly piled on my limited shelf space.
Limited space no more.  Move over <insert preferred contemporary furniture outlet here>, Paul is going designing!

Security and the Corporate ID card

Feeling wordy this morning, though it probably won't last!  Whether cyber security is starting to burrow into my subconcious or it's just that I watch so much Burn Notice, but it amazes me how many people wander around with thier company ID passes in high visibility places on thier person, for the journey to work. 

You can generally get name, position and company name from a casual glance or two.  If I ran a company that employed ID requirements, or even worked for a company that did such, I would put forword a scheme.

On website or similar branding:
"Average Joe Public is invited to email us if you see our employees out and about.  Tell us their name, and where you saw / met them and we'll give you a £5 <insert current socially favorable voucher vendor here> voucher."

The £5 would of course be subsidised in its entirety from fining the said employee (after validation of course) for being stupid / negligent...
Thier ways would soon change.

The Future of User Input (aka Gesture Is Dead)

I travel a lot for my job. Occasionally I find myself travelling with Sayyed Shah; friend, fellow developer and long time co-worker since day 1 at Neutrino, in his kindness as he gives me a lift most of the way home.
On one such journey, our conversation drifted to that of User Input and as such serves as catalyst for this post, Sayyed deserving as much credit for eliciting the thoughts from my head for this article as me.