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
And was contemplating writing variously about potential reasons why, but then decided that I couldn’t be bothered and didn’t know enough about her anyway. That said, I still don’t think I’m Virginia Woolf (if only on account of my being male, decidedly straight, and opposed in some way or another to the influence of feminism upon society, even recognising Woolf’s own objection to that term).
Awesome service, but I just checked out how much it cost me. Was on the phone whilst away for two minutes and nine seconds, and it cost a little over $12. Ouch.
Here’s the good stuff. Or at least the condensed photo-narrative version of events as told by my camera. For a more full version of things head over to my Orient Point Flickr photoset.
I was doing really well trying not to think about any time other than now/future, until someone asked for something (past) to be changed. Which of course meant observing other things from the past, which of course meant remembering everything associated with those times. It’s just a slip in sentiment, that’s all. Don’t over-analyse the word ‘nostalgia’, its etymologies, popular culture allusions (in an inverse aetiological sense, meaning I thought of it first and then discovered similar foundations elsewhere), and all possible meanings (I can think of only two) in its usage. Anyway, it was entirely accidental. It’s not as though I stood there throwing taunts at some maddened, blind cyclops, revealing identities boastfully as the impious brute runs crying to its father. No: convenient mythological explanations for any of this are decidedly thin on the ground.
Flickr’s photoset view irritates me. There’s always so much whitespace it’s not funny, the columns are divided but the “cells” (apparently, for they’re not in a table I don’t think — can’t be bothered checking) are stacked without space, and the page goes on forever resultingly. The screenshot with this post (right) isn’t even the entire page. That’s about two thirds of the content right there. I cut the image for visual brevity, etc.
Point is, they should be doing this lots better but aren’t. All it’d take is a floated div or two, and it’s not like their website isn’t complex enough with JS/CSS/whatever already… the current design is utterly illogical and can only be justified as an effort (made consciously) to make people make shorter photo sets (financial/bandwidth incentive, perhaps?). Pfft. I didn’t pay my (however much per year) to Flickr, Inc. Yahoo!’s acquisitions team (it passes for innovation, perhaps? ;-) Okay I’ve had my little jab now.) to put up measly numbers of photos. You give me 2GB/month uploads and at the minute I’m using up to nearly half of that — and, yeah, it’s something I’ll pay for, because 90% of the time it’s mind-numbingly easy and painless. 10% is little UI stupidity issues such as this one. Sigh.