it really strikes me, the casual observer, as odd that the jerusalem battalions and hezbollah have such similar “logos”.
on the other hand how hard can it be to make a logo with an arm held upright with an assault rifle in hand and topped off with some funky typography.
What is it with the working class that makes them consider everyone that isn’t working or able to work, fit to die? there’s a lot to be said about people who leech off of the welfare system. but dying is not a sentiment we should encourage in society.
I would never cut off my nose to spite my face. I’m not abandoning Microsoft (or Windows entirely, for that matter). I do feel, however, that Microsoft Windows has already abandoned me as a power user. If you’re content with Windows Vista, fine - but you’re doing yourself a tremendous disservice by dismissing Mac OS X because it doesn’t work the same way.
[From A Different Kind of Personal Computer ~ Chris Pirillo]
Chris Pirillo on computing, food for thought to say the least. he highlights the good and bad things about the diff. next generation platforms — not that vista or osx is particularily next generation since they’ve both been on the market for a period (osx 10.4 is current, 10.5 is however next up)
“Use Flash for interfaces to sites, for quick impact. Use Shockwave for more complex multimedia work, or for web applications that are beyond the browsers’ abilities.”
i’d like to generalise it down to: “here’s how we say something without really explaining anything”
bah.
me and Malin, graduation. awesome pic, however, i have no beard
and well, I did shave my head not too long afterwards. funny how losing a beard makes you look 10kg lighter — wishful thinking at best 
today Sun released “Darkstar“, game server middleware aimed at mmorpg’s. Sun’s got a lot of iron the furnace atm, now let’s see what slags off and not, Darkstar seems interesting from the interoperability angle, but other than that. heh, it’s Sun, its bound to be built on java without midp support.
single node only, multinode is slated for a later release so no big iron fawning just yet — sorry for the Laynia Petrovna title-bait
Today has been a flurry of events, following up on all the posts about the Kathy situation and trying to understand the triggers that caused it.
Jonas has been my pillar and reason about the whole situation.
The reason i’m worked up about this isn’t because of one isolated case. not at all. it’s because when I posted it, some of my female friends told me that it happens to them as well.
So as much as i’d like for it to be an isolated case, that we men, don’t prey on the opposite gender it’s one of those drops of idealism that dried up in the sun.
For a long time I boasted that I was master of all possible landscapes and I thought the great figures of modern painting and poetry were laughable.
What I liked were : absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints ; old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children’s books, old operas, silly old songs, the naïve rhythms of country rimes.
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents : I used to believe in every kind of magic.
-Rimbaud
interesting times are ahead of me.
technorati tags:rimbaud
Let’s fly to the famous Asian cities,
Stealing our maps from dark museums,
Ancient, inaccurate maps
With curly-headed winds.
Let’s fly to the famous Asian cities
On Friday next, at the quitting whistle.
We gather where the road is crooked.
Our password is your name
Whatever it may be
On Friday next, at the quitting whistle.
Marvelous animals, beautiful spirits,
We were never much good at being human.
Like heroes in old films,
Frantically we flee the world.
Marvelous animals, beautiful spirits!
-Henri Coulette
testing hte moblog feature.
“Robert Brunner, then
with Lunar Design, was floored when Ive showed him an elegant question
mark-shaped phone — not just a foam block but an actual model with all
the internal components machined separately. “It wasn’t just that the
product had heart, but it was engineered; he was thinking about how to
make it in volume,” recalls Brunner.” — Interview with and about Jonathan Ive’s, of Apple inc.
The interview is really interesting since it displays the lack of prestige within the apple design team and the attitude of hard work and good work ethics displayed in the work of and in the team.
It isn’t often you read about some of those things in the technology sector these days, programmers do a good job most of the time, but are more often than not far too preoccupied by their sense of what’s easier and more effective vs. the need of the user of the product.
Wikipedia, has been in turmoil, more than once over the seriousness of their project. recently they decided to delete the biography of Rob Levin founder and former project leader of PDPC and Open Projects aka. freenode. an internet relay chat communications network, used by a massive amount of open source projects.
This is because of him not being notable enough, which to me, is unreal. the man built and offered up a communications infrastructure for the betterment of the open source movement, this is a big milestone, it helped people to communicate, it also helped the various projects to pool their efforts.
it’s been said he’s not notable enough, but is really the latest internet meme notable enough? by what criteria should we judge people. by what they’ve done? by who they know? or by what they’ve done for others?
Rob did something, that no-one else did, prior to the freenode project. obviously a lot of people feel that they could’ve done it just as easily, this where i grew up, is called “hyperbole” either you deliver or just shut up.
freenode isnt just yet another irc network, freenode is an institution, and one that Rob Levin, was instrumental in forming.
i’d say that this could be seen as a failiure of Wikipedia, to prove it’s worthyness to knowledge.
Myself and many of my friends buy ebooks to read on our pda’s or just peruse onscreen on our computers, it’s boring and the multitasking nature of modern operating systems makes it very much like trying to find a needle on the street in downtown NY in the middle of a working day.
There’s been a few portable prototypes of ebook readers that’ve made it to market, sony being one of the foremost contenders, but still lacking in the ye-olde usability department.
another contender is the amazon project ‘kindle’ which I consider to be the bastard child of every device that has gone tits up since 2001, eerily reminescent of the n-gage & apple 2+ and seemingly packing an immense distaste for usability — ‘distaste’ might be the wrong word, it could also be lack of UxD / IxD schooling — and ambivalence to the goal, which.. would seem to be reading books and surfing the web, and well. texting a great deal.
some hobbyists did get it right with a prototype — not availible to the public aside from schematics — dubbed juicebox;
and oh boy did they ever figure out that an ebook reader doesnt need to be fifty eleven things at once, doing audio output and displaying the text on a readable display is all that’s really needed — note the lack of the kitchen sink.
technorati tags:UxD, Ebooks, usabilitymistakes
I logged on to irc this early morning to find that a friend of mine had passed away. gone was my cheery mood and my sunny disposition took over.
Rob Levin was one of the very few infrastructure moguls in oss, a who got “it” about open source, he wasnt all too concerned with global domination, but more about how to go about the revolution logistically. He was many things to me, a good listener, skilled in diplomacy, a strategist, but most of all. a good man in times of ambitious bastards.
I’d love to be able to do something more, anything. but I’m at loss as to what short of donating to pdpc, which is what I am going to do. but it doesnt feel … like it would be enough.
Rob, I hope you’re up there, showing them who you are, what you did for all of us, and living life to the fullest.
”Caelum videre iussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus”
via Laughing Squid