I’ve delivered simple, clear and easy-to-use services for 20 years, for startups, scaleups and government. I write about the nerdy bits here.
— @joahua
15 Jul 2006
The first image would have been a spectacular photo with the aid of a tripod, a bigger camera, and more time. I was running late going somewhere one night and took this as I headed off. The industral setting of it all is epitomised by the moon itself appearing harshly bright, like some unforgiving floodlight for night-work. Only vastly more brilliant, and, in (probably) any other context, beautiful.
The second image is chiefly provided for the clarity that the first lacks.
15 Jul 2006
The cat/rat distinction is somewhat blurry. I was coming out of the driveway earlier this week and was perplexed to see what I thought to be the face of a cat staring at me from inside a drain. By the time I stopped the car, got out my camera, turned it on, and snapped, the cat was a little further out.
Yes, I go home and practice my ninja-speed-photo-taking abilities at night. *ahem*
13 Jul 2006
It just occurred to me that the most frustrating thing about time-travel for anyone post-Intellectual-Property law would be the discovery of various things they themselves had previously identified as “wouldn’t-it-be-great-if” concepts. Case in point, Caller-ID: “Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell who was calling before answering?” Yes, it is. Everyone with a mobile (pretty much) has this. Imagine if you’d thought of it a little more seriously when you lived just a short while after Bell/Meucci/Reis invented/stole/plagiarised the telephone.
12 Jul 2006
Porridge this morning. I’m not usually a porridge person but it looked warming. I went to microwave it and laughed when the finished message displayed on it’s screen (“Meal is ready”) as I had extrapolated “ready” before it scrolled across the screen to be “Readymix” (that is, a cement company in Australia and various other countries). It was surprisingly nice for the thick brown-grey coloured substance that it is.
12 Jul 2006
Let me take this opportunity to remark that I’ve never seen One True Layout working satisfactorily apart from the instance wherein it was originally demonstrated. It is singularly the most frustrating, impotent, over-rated, and deceptively-named CSS technique ever published. No offense.