Dlod
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If Google is a lean sprinter (actually sprinters are a bit cool, maybe a roller blader, in chinos) then Dlod is an overweight reality TV enthusiast, feeling a touch of panic at the thought of running out of cheesy snacks. And the way Google is eyeing up my poor fatty of a blog and making tut tut sounds is making it nervous.
Google are now incorporating page load speed as one of the factors they measure in order to determine the relevance of pages in their search results.This is probably … fine. Google still seems to me to be the best performing search engine out there, consistently delivering relevant search results. Most probably they have figured out how to intelligently incorporate this factor into their voodoo and everything will be business as usual.
But it makes me nervous. It makes me nervous because page load time has nothing to do with the relevance of a search result but everything to do with the quality of the experience of the website that contains that result. It means Google are trying to measure the quality of a website’s user experience.
Graphic Design, Interactive Design, Jetsum, User Experience
Posted: April 27th 2010
Imagine what you could do if you applied your collective imaginations and intelligence into fighting human rights abuses, or world poverty, or global warming. Now stop imagining because all that guff is going to have to wait. I need to use your accumulated knowledge, experience and wisdom to help me chose what kit to get instead.
Basically my faithful computer has had it and I need to replace it. Normally I would just get a new Macbook Pro but I’ve had a bit of a tiff with Apple and now have no idea what to get.
Here is what I need to be able to do:
- Run Adobe Suite. I can’t run an alternative because I’m almost always required to produce and work in Adobe formats. It’s pretty much the industry standard much to my software budget’s dismay.
- Run Microsoft Office for the exact same reasons above, although potentially I could fudge it with a product that produces MS format documents.
- Record music and edit video, do 3D rendering and animation. This isn’t work but is just for yuks, so I do all those things in a lo-fi crappy sort of way. I use Audacity, Garage Band, Blend, Flash and After Effects.
And here are my options as I see them …
Posted: February 1st 2010
Slightly unrelated to anything, I joined Twitter recently (after telling anybody who would listen that I wouldn’t) and tried to make an Icon. Normally I wouldn’t share it here but the end result was such a monumental and creepy failure that I feel compelled to make you look.
It came out like a weird half bird half fish genetic hybrid with a creepy open mouth like it’s waiting to be fed. Or to pleasure someone. It’s so wrong I can’t look away. Also made me realise that I have accidently nicked the Twitter blue. In my mind my Twitter icon has woken up and just discovered that it is now a hybrid mutant and is begging to be killed. I’m sorry bird/fish. You should have never lived.
It’s here by the way: Matt’s Brain
Posted: December 3rd 2009
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