Last week flying ants came out in their millions and disrupted Irish life for a few days while they danced their mating dances! I was outside the office and spotted this lot coming out of their nest. It’s fitting that last weekend was the warmest this year! The average temperature was around 25deg C. Dry, dead heat!
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Lots of Demos!
Woo, here’s a long list of demos! I might be busy tonight downloading this lot!
Link Catchup
That’s what weekends will do to you: you miss stuff! Here’s a few things I’ll be reading tonight.
- Developing Photos That “Pop” – unfortunately it uses Adobe Camera Raw II but there’s probably something useful in there even for GIMP users!
- USES AND APPLICATIONS OF 35mm LENSES – good humorous looks at lenses!
- Over the gamut and through the woods – an in-depth, detailed look at colour.
- Finishing a Full Game – applies to any project I suppose!
- Digital memories survive extremes – the memory cards might survive but our digital archives probably won’t. 🙁
How HCI Killed Open Source
Great article and comic from usability guy, Tom Chi.
Brilliant comments too and so many quotables you should just read through them yourself. In an optimistic mood, I like to think there’s some way this could be solved:
OSS programmers are often just hacking in their free time because their day-jobs aren’t satisfying their desire to write strong code. So for those people, they’re coding as a hobby, not as a job, which makes it difficult to impose un-fun constraints on them like listening to a non-programmer (oh the humiliation) as to why their software isn’t usable. The trick here is to find a way that good HCI can mesh with the OSS mentality and development model. Any suggestions?
Like most things done “in their spare time”, things are far from perfect. When was the last time you cut the hedge so it was exactly straight, or washed and polished the car until it gleamed so much you could see your reflection in it – from 10 feet away? We need the hedge cutting and car washing professionals to join us in our spare time hobbies. Such a collaboration can only benefit both groups!
And if that site had permalinks to the comments I’d probably be linking to several of them. oh well, more usability work to be done! 🙂
The Willful, part 2. Sunday week ago
The Willfull from a week ago!
The Willful, Sunday week ago
The Willfull from a week ago!
Hey Joey!
Hey Joey! My relation’s beautiful dog!
Tree in the Lee
Hand-held photo of St. Finbarr’s Cathedral and the River Lee. The original was very dark and the colour was spoilt by the local street lights. Converting it to black and white and adjusting the contrast made for a nice photo IMO!
Batmans Begins – bah, crap trailer, looks good!
Me being a big Batman fan, I just took at look at the Batman Begins trailer. It wasn’t great, you don’t get much of a look at the Caped Crusader, but it does give you a taste for the story I suppose! Nice Batman logo! Oh and wget this link if you want to download the trailer in QuickTime format. That at least is friendlier than the wmv format to Mplayer but don’t forget to download the QuickTime codecs to play it!
Old vs New
Pictured from near the Opera House, you can see Shandon, and the construction work building a new appartment block near the river.