06 Mar 2005
Has anyone else who does the whole design thing ever come up with something they’re convinced is great, then been told that it’s not quite what the client was looking for and having to go back to designing something that just doesn’t feel as right, but is closer to the client’s desire?
That’s what’s happened to me recently… who remembers the Windows High Contrast themes? It’s looking something like that… red, black and white, coming from the previous design of far subtler blues and greens. Apparently it’s “youthful”, although I think it’s a tad too aggressive, personally! My current task? Turn the German flag into a website.
… it’ll get done, and possibly even look good, but that doesn’t mean I agree with it! Who else has felt that what a client is asking for in terms of design just feels wrong, even if their suggestion could be made to work just fine?
06 Mar 2005
Not new photos, just part of the massive film backlog that needed to be scanned and published online. Just because. Heh, and my brother scanned about 80 photos for me because he wanted one of them… I said he could have a scenic photo or three (that’s what he was looking for… no idea why) if he scanned the lot (well, sort of… he kind of volunteered as well), and he did! Yay!
I still got the task of cropping and colour correcting (transport faults on the camera when I set the shutter speed too low… it’ll go to 1000th of a second, but it’s not labelled as such, and only sometimes works properly… so the colour banding on some images is as a result of that. I’m not using that setting in the future!) the photos, but shrug.
So the latest ones are from December last year, taken in Tea Gardens, whilst on a holiday with Ben, Tori and Nicolin. No, there is no reason for Snoopy being there, except for my wanting to finish the film before I went away again… I didn’t finish the film in time. More photos to come are from the cruise, but not until I get time to crop them all (they’re scanned 3 to a plate).
Tea Gardens photos, December 2004
05 Mar 2005
It was a great night, and there’s a load of rather blurry photographs which I just rotated, resized, uploaded and painstakingly added ALT text for in my Photography section. Go take a look!
The last photo isn’t from the carnival – it’s a picture of a Smart car bearing the numberplate “Petit” (sic)… Ben and I both thought it was funny, but unfortunately he was driving and I’m incapable of taking an un-blurry photo with my digital, hence the crappiness.
01 Mar 2005
It’s a tad down from last month in everything except unique visitors, which means I just haven’t been creating enough new content and have been dependent on search engine traffic for hits from irregular visitors.
Unique visitors: 1038
Number of visits: 3395
Pages: 17556
Hits: 30006
Bandwidth: 232.74 MB
Yes, I should get back to posting real content, but I’m afraid that’s not too likely, between school (3 weeks to half yearlies! I know we’re not halfway through the year, but the final year of schooling is odd here in Australia!) and a production next week which is likely to consume all waking hours! I’ll hopefully get a chance to post regular or semi-regular photos, at least, but maybe not.
01 Mar 2005
We’ve finally bought a TV capable of having RCA cables plugged directly into it! Sure, it’s second hand, conventional (i.e. not flat) CRT and a Sanyo, but it’s 51cm and means we don’t need to use a 19″ BenQ LCD bizarrely wired directly to our DVD player which has a VGA output (nearly exactly half the LCD’s native resolution, which is handy, but it’s a pain to lug from the office to the living room every time we wanna watch a DVD!).
So that’s exciting. I’d post pictures, but just imagine any generic curvy CRT TV and you’ve got the right idea. ;) It wasn’t really worth the time it’d take to find the camera, take a photo, come upstairs, upload photo, resize photo, login and upload via FTP, and then figure out the path to the file for inclusion in this post!
It also has wonderful wonderful mono sound, but that’s okay, because we’ve got a nice Sony system hooked up for that… at least the audio side of things is pretty good quality, even if the vision is functional but far from excellent (Infinitely better than the 20-or-30-something year old set we used to use as the main TV, though!)…
Later: As a direct result of the wonders of procrastination, I ventured downstairs with a camera and took a photo of a perfectly boring TV.
There you go.