Hack Day London 2007
Head's a bit fried from all I saw. Limbs ever so slighly numb from the walking about helping out. More info as I get a couple of brain cells to interact.
Just a few links for now - got to rush to work:
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Monday 18 June 2007 at 11:33 am
OMG. Bitful… I know it's superficial and all, but I miss the pink bits. I know the content's largely the same as ever, it still functions much as before and is just as entertaining, informative and useful, but I like things that come in nice packages. I mean, isn't it nice to be surrounded by beauty even if it has no intrinsic value other than its mere loveliness?
Which brings me to the Hack Day t-shirts flickr group. OMG and ROLF. Seriously, those dudes probably function perfectly well and are informative, useful, and probably quite entertaining, but do they -like- compete to see who can look the most nerdy? Not much attention paid to appearance there.
Were they the inspiration for your makeover? "Wait a sec… these guys aren't much to look at, but yet they know how to do protocol on a rib site with minimum precedence lossage - cool! That's what Bitful should be like!"
I know this is a blog on technology, so perhaps this new minimal look is well suited. But isn't it also a blog on queerness? And don't all us queers want to look simply fabulous all the time?
Nevertheless, I'm still lovin' your work.
Monday 18 June 2007 at 12:25 pm
Ah, the pink. The pink is most likely coming back; I am attached to it as it has been there since the very beginning, and to me at least it is and always will be the defining imagery for bitful.
I guess part of my stripping this website bare has got a lot to do with my thoughts on online identity, and the need I cannot keep ignoring of owning up to what I do here with selected colleagues and friends: I want to see if having a simple, anonymous interface would make it easier to direct people here.
Ideally, I should be proud of my loud pink, which of course I am, but at the same time I don't want people to stop there without delving any deeper.
As I said in my previous post on the design change, by stripping everying off I wanted to see how much my readers (and I) would miss certain elements. It's working already :-)