I’m quite interested in software user interfaces and GUI design. I like and recommend “Designing Highly Useable Software” by Jeff Cogswell, as a good read. But I’m always on the look out for good websites.
Somebody just sent me this – maybe of interest if you’re also into software development.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000734.html
There are some interesting comments.
(More holiday photos on the way!)
Something that shits me at the moment is the frequency with which I’m seeing comments like this – that environmental activism is just a new religion. I’ve seen it on blogs, in newspaper Op-Ed pieces, and on Usenet. Often it is combined with a view that market forces will avert problems or provide the best solutions.
Yes, it’s true that environmental activism may be a religion to some. But to others it is just cold, rational, thinking. It is simply not in our interests to severely disrupt an environment that our comfort, economies and lives are deeply entwined with, in complex ways that we sometimes have a poor understanding of. ‘End-times’ scenario’s are often the realistic consequences of not changing our behaviour to acknowledge this.
These photos are from the same two hour, dawn, boat trip on the Ganges as the previous couple of posts.
I’ll be rescanning a few of these, and perhaps adding a few new photos. Unfortunately some are blurred because of a remove dust-and-gunk-on-the-scanner filter. Also the colours look a bit out in some cases. Nonetheless you still might find some of them interesting!
There are 25 more in this post – they may take awhile to download if you don’t have a broadband Internet connection (click on ‘Read the rest of this entry’)!
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Wheels World 