Blog of Eli Burford

Twitter Pays Off!

Eli — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:09:27 +0000

Check it out! So they were giving away these little beauties at the Adelaide Adobe CS5 roadshow last Tuesday to those that asked good questions/answered questions about the products. I didn’t think of a good question or anything of that sort so instead I just went to Twitter and asked them for a Rubik’s cube. That [...]

Picked them up from the printers yesterday…

Eli — Fri, 07 May 2010 02:23:58 +0000

My new business cards! The last iteration would be from late 2008 and so it was starting to look a little … primitive. Before you continue reading you must watch this scene from American Psycho. Another video that sort of inspired me would be this one; although it is said to be staged/fake there is [...]

Flaunt (oh yeah…)

Eli — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:29:04 +0000

I received my copy of Flaunt in the mail the other week (although considerably damaged), but UnderConsideration were kind enough to send me a fresh copy straight up, without even having to send the damaged copy back (thanks guys!) So yeah, as soon as I saw this book I knew I needed something like it, as [...]

Everyday Bad Design

Eli — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:42:47 +0000

Above: “something” that I encountered when leaving Flinders Medical Centre once. Oh how good an idea it is to put something like this in front of someone who wants to leave a hospital in a hurry … I wrote a short essay on the topic “No matter how cool your interface is, less of it would [...]

Apple iPad Announced

Eli — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:53:58 +0000

Somehow we all knew it for months before they actually announce it, but anyway, here’s Apple’s newest gadget, the iPad! Yeah, I’m not too fond of the name either. It’s a nice-looking device, but some cons/negatives have turned me off the prospect of owning one (besides, I already have an iPad nano!) One prediction I would make [...]

I Seen Avatar in 3D!

Eli — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:57:48 +0000

That is to say, I saw Avatar. In 3D! The experience was pretty crap (had trouble getting to the cinema, bad seats, then trouble getting out of the cinema), but the film was great! Quite a typical, feel-good story, but good nonetheless.

Got the Smashing Book!

Eli — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:07:37 +0000

I was fortunate enough to pre-order the Smashing Book days after it was announced (fortunate that I had the funds in PayPal, that is). And I received it a few weeks ago (sorry for not writing, I guess I consider Twitter to be my Blog as of late). As of writing I’ve only read a few chapters [...]

Some Resolutions And Stuff

Eli — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:04:40 +0000

I remember reading a while back (not sure where) that if you really want to get something done, then you tell as many people as you can, and then you feel more obliged to do it (maybe it’s because you’ll feel as if you’ve let someone down?) Anyway, that’s sort of why I’m making this post! [...]

Machinarium Released

Eli — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:26:06 +0000

I thought I would spread around a little bit of love for an independently-developed game that was just released the other day, Machinarium. It was developed by a company (Amanita Design) that has already released a few interesting games, Samarost 1 and Samarost 2. My brother first introduced me to the demo of this game the [...]

“Cool, a ruckus!”

Eli — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:55:20 +0000

… in the words of Bart Simpson in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington. So yeah, onto the controversy… Google vs. Apple, war! Ah, how I do love a bit of controversy, although there isn’t really much to go on at the moment. So if war does break out, how can Google not win?