Letters from the Equator

• Wishing my friends were here (0)
• Settling Down in London (0)
• We are moving into a new apartment (1)
• New Flickr Homepage!!! (1)
• My Interaction Design Blog (0)
• London can be tiring (1)
• UCL action has started (0)
• UK after a week or so (2)

Find me Elsewhere

• 12 Dec 08
• Safety Research Reports - BERR
• Headpones in London. - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio
• Usability gripes with Firefox’s download feature
• Methodologie Browser Size Test
• Web-scalable narratives : block, slab, pillar
• The New Amsterdams – Fortunate Fool
• The New Amsterdams – Story Like a Scar
• The New Amsterdams – A Beacon In Beige
• The New Amsterdams – Hughes
• The New Amsterdams – Fountain of Youth
• The New Amsterdams – Wait
• The New Amsterdams – Revenge
• The New Amsterdams – Slight Return
• The New Amsterdams – Worse for the Wear
• The New Amsterdams – All Our Vice
• 11 Nov 08
• The Designer's Review of Books — Books for the creative mind.
• Miso Ramen Recipe | Rasa Malaysia: Malaysian and Asian Food, Cooking, and Recipes
• PHP - List of countries from MySQL database (output Smarty) - By Antonie Potgieter
• Top 100 User-Centered Blogs | Virtual Hosting Blog
• YouTube interface redesigned
• Chinese pork ribs recipe - Recipes - BBC Good Food
• Five-spice powder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• ASDA Recipes - Chinese spare ribs
• 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding | CSS | Smashing Magazine
• Paths For Designers & Ia’S - SlideShare
• Formal Usability Report vs. Quick Findings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• Happy Webbies
• jaremfan: finally got rid of McAfee! Performance improvement is clearly visible.
• iPhone usability
• Boon Yew is noticing a lot of weird facebook activity from UCLICers.
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: Embarrassment: Malaysian Embassy in London ( http://tinyurl.com/5sj8o7 )
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: Embarrassment: Malaysian Embassy in London ( http://tinyurl.com/57bwkg )
• jaremfan: Recessionary design : http://tinyurl.com/6f4eyj
• Boon Yew is done with the first draft of the ATM paper and needs to let it sit for awhile and go to bed.
• 21st century jobs - Know thyself and find a fit
• jaremfan: post-completion errors have been repeated a millionth time now - possible exam question?
• Google Mail offers THEMES
• Boon Yew wonders whether Derby or the conference was more exciting.
• jaremfan: so i thought there were good things about the ergonomic society student conference, but I am too tired to know if it was worth it
• Boon Yew just saw Feeder at the Astoria and needs to sleep now so he can wake up at an ungodly hour to go to Derby for a conference.
• jaremfan: Feeder @ Astoria = Good
• jaremfan: not sure if i'm going to stay awake the whole day
• Boon Yew bought a wireless keyboard to aid his ergonomic posture and found out that the keyboard has poor usability.
• jaremfan: swamped with assignments
• jaremfan: @rajanand london's pretty good - where are you based?
• The Ergonomics Society website is not ergonomic
• Boon Yew found lots of interesting shops and restaurants between Angel and Highbury&Islington and is happy he lives nearby.
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: Wishing my friends were here ( http://tinyurl.com/5d4uda )
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: Wishing my friends were here ( http://tinyurl.com/628cd2 )
• Boon Yew realizes his workstation is totally not ergonomic and is suffering from shoulder pain and tingles and justifies the need for wireless keyboard/mice.
• Boon Yew is suddenly afraid of ATMs.
• World Usability Day, talks at LBi
• Boon Yew says happy World Usability Day!
• jaremfan: malaysian websites are too masculine?
• jaremfan: curious why people would want to compare Malaysian and US websites in their research papers
• jaremfan: finally got wireless set up with virgin broadband - it was a bit confusing but it's all over now
• jaremfan: footbaths are the rage - only in cold weather
• jaremfan: car clubs in london should benefit from social networks
• Boon Yew gave too much money to Ikea.
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: Settling Down in London ( http://tinyurl.com/5nndw3 )
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: Settling Down in London ( http://tinyurl.com/56xscg )
• Boon Yew is looking for his ischial tuberosity.
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• Usability vs. Innovation? Stop already.
• jaremfan: boonyew.com: We are moving into a new apartment ( http://tinyurl.com/6bjc94 )
• Boon Yew thought that the UPA event was pretty real.
• Boon Yew found the best and most authentic Thai restaurant at the corner of Hornsey Rd and Seven Sisters.
• 10 Oct 08
• Boon Yew attracts police dogs, which is a bad thing.
• Boon Yew is designing a washing machine interface.
• My 2 hours at Serco Usability
• Boon Yew likes the snow in London right now.
• Boon Yew is moving to Islington soon.
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• Boon Yew just got done with the ACS video - and hates listening to his own voice.
• Web Without Words - the danger of using wireframes
• Blogs on Interaction Design, Usability, and User Experience
• Boon Yew thinks Pizza Express is the bees knees.
• Boon Yew is having a sore throat... again! :(.
• Getting the Postgraduate Experience Without Paying for it
• 9 Sep 08
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• Graduate School - Think Before You Leap
• The pain of uprooting myself
• 8 Aug 08
• 2 weeks to go before getting to London - Lessons Learnt So Far
• Achieve your goals by navigating your dips well - a car sale case study
• How to Survive in a Flat World
• Five Reasons Why Wordpress is Best
• 5 reasons why LinkedIn is great for Headhunters and Opportunists
• Life’s Lessons from a Chicken Rice Seller

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My name is Boon. I'm a Malaysian based in London, where I am currently pursuing an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction. I am currently married (happily) with no kids (yet). View more about me here.