Decided that the default Wordpress theme is… well, default. Some time well spent produced this theme, iNove. Still not what I want but it’s closer. Liking the random posts, I’d guess it’s going to have some kind of impact to the time spent at the site.
Usability wise, still too much small fonts and the header needs to be rethinked but I like the sidebar. So, this is the look now and perhaps the next one will be the one.
Phew. Got the photoshoot done yesterday, about 500 pics totally; loving the 8GB CF card. Thumbed the pictures through this morning and I’m not super pleased of myself. Some composition and cropping errors and even some problems with focusing, though I’m laying the blame for that on my camera. It seems that it had some problems focusing on black shirt on dimly lit carage, go figure. Oh well, gotta make your mistakes so you can learn from them. On the positive side, the main model was just super, doing her thing like nothing.
I think I have to whip myself to get some gallery running so I can get some pictures up.
Oh, and saw The Dark Knight. I have to say I was kinda disappointed, as I clearly had waaayy too high expectations for it. Quick break-down: Mr. Ledger was just brilliant, one of the best roles EVER. And I do mean EVER-EVER. Bale was surefire and Gary Oldman just doesn’t fail you. But… There’s always a but: I have a problem with Mrs.(?) Gyllenhaal and Mr. Eckhart, I’m sure they did their best and all but with such names as Ledger, Bale, Oldman and Caine I’d give them the same changes as icecube (pick you favourite) in hell. I really had no feelings for either of them, when they were filling the screen I just wanted them to go away to see more of that brilliant Joker. Not to mention the far-out scifi shit that was going on… In times it was just like watching bad episode of C.S.I, I mean come on, cellular transformed to 3D sonar? Producing fingerprings from a bullet which is shattered to million billion pieces and is inside a brick?
All in all, it was a good movie, entertaining even, not to mention the best superhero movie ever made, but the best movie ever, come on IMDb?!
Just have to post this. Want a ultra-light and easy to use tablet under $200? I know I do. Here’s the deal:
Michael Arrington from CrunchGear decided to start a project to create ultra-portable open source tablet. It would would have one button to power up the device, it would fire straight to Firefox with no desktop environment. Low end speakers, mic and web camera would be integrated, touch screen providing control input. Half a gig of RAM and 4 GB SDD included.
They have already in the talks with manufacturer who says it could be produced for ~200$, all they need is custom software to make it all happen. Want to help? Check the link below and go for it!
TechCrunch
It’s been tad quiet here lately since it’s my holidays and I went up north to see my parents and friends. Anyways, now I’m back and pondering about new articles. Tad quiet in breaking user interface news.
There seems to be a problem with WordPress and it’s ability to sort the posts with tags. It looks like quite common problem and yet still no fix for it. It seems to cache the pages so it would take a while for new posts to appear (go figure) and because of that people seem to go with “clear your cache, wait” doctrine, which is, in my case, doing absolutely bubkus.
So, in the mean time, while the people at WordPress figure this out, if you want to chech posts dealing with i.e. gaming you just have to bite the bullet and browse through the posts (they are not that many, after all). Sucks, I know.
Edit: Nevermind. It’s now working
The purpose of this blog is just to get my ideas and concepts up somewhere, and perhaps in the process advertise myself, who knows.
I will be concentrating mainly on different usability and user interface issues on different contexts but every now and then, if the situation approves, I might be presenting new concepts, virtual and physical.
