Monthly Archives: May 2008

iec 16022 project

By dmacwilliam | Published: May 29, 2008
I was flying back to Vancouver from Banff last night when I was struck by how beautiful the data matrix iec16022 barcode was on my boarding pass. Then I remembered that there was one on the email that AirCanada sent me and I began to do a little research and found this link to Stefan Schmidt [...]
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compression artifacts

By dmacwilliam | Published: May 20, 2008
Over the past few days I have been thinking about the limitations of digital photography. I particular the formal limitations of lossy data compression. As I began analyzing I have become interested in the formal limitations of data transfer and the compression artifacts that are produced when an image is saved with heavy data compression. As [...]
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thinking about three things

By dmacwilliam | Published: May 17, 2008
1: How we locate ourselves- our sense of self within the world- literally, geographically- physically: “where we are” as well as psychologically and emotionally. 2: How we define ourselves within different communities- in relation to others- our family, our colleagues through relationships- extended relationships, professional communities 3: How we collaborate within a group- networks, social networks, email [...]
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6 phases of heuristic research

By dmacwilliam | Published: May 16, 2008
Yesterday Saul Ostrow talked about how one makes sense of things and how he prefers talking about a rhetorical object and the research process and timeline that he uses to get through a collaboration. He is collaborating on a project with Charles Tucker, who talked about heuristic research. I wrote it down and when I [...]
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