My previous layout here was a fairly simple custom theme. But not simple enough for an upgrade to the new version of WordPress, which broke it.
So I have a default layout with a shoe-horned header image.
Todo, tofix.
It’s Sunday night and I’m just waiting for the last few files to upload to my website for the little side project I’ve been busy with.
Correction. It’s actually Monday morning, and I really should get to bed and start the week on a good note. But I can’t. I’m enjoying myself too much…
I wish I could explain the energy I get from a night like tonight in front of my computer. I don’t care about the lack of sleep – or how the day will be tomorrow. I’m just enjoying the silence of the middle of the night while I problem solve and code and think and read.
Anyway, the upload’s done. Here’s what it is: One Thousand Songs. No great shakes, just a first attempt at some data mashup and visualisation, for the hell of it. It was an interesting process, and I hit many snags and contradictions, and I think I will do some more to improve it as I go.
Meanwhile, sleep.
Tonight I read this from Groupware Bad in which Jamie Zawinski tells the story of when he convinced his friend not to try and make an Open Source Groupware product:
If you want to do something that’s going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.
One thing that always confuses me is how, as creative people in this industry, we are somehow often convinced to base our decisions and channel our energies around corporate structures and managers’ whim, like somehow that is something cool, something to aspire to. I see it all the time in studios where developers, designers and account directors alike lap up the promise of higher management, client or wider industry affirmation. Instead of thinking about the people who will use our products decisions about product behaviour are made in a boardroom full of management egos.
It really winds me up.
