Comments on: Hack Day London 2007 http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/18/hack-day-london-2007/ UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: bitful http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/18/hack-day-london-2007/#comment-4936 bitful Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:25:46 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/18/hack-day-london-2007/#comment-4936 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 <a href="http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/15/how-to-manage-multiple-online-identities/" rel="nofollow">my thoughts on online identity</a>, 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 <a href="http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/17/dude-wheres-my-design/" rel="nofollow">my previous post on the design change</a>, by stripping everying off I wanted to see how much my readers (and I) would miss certain elements. It's working already :-) 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 :-)

]]> By: Oliver http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/18/hack-day-london-2007/#comment-4934 Oliver Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:33:07 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/2007/06/18/hack-day-london-2007/#comment-4934 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. 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.

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