Finally…

At long last, I have a working copy of a current version photoshop! Exciting new vistas of RAW photograpy, and being able to attempt to fix barrel distortion are available to me! Blindness caused by being hunched over, staring at the screen awaits!

Web dev malaise

So, I’m sitting here in the office, bored out of my mind, attempting to upgrade someone else’s stinkingly poor spaghetti-logic code, to make it do something it was explictly designed not to do, and really, just wishing I had the sort of job where I was developing interesting shit, rather than crap for a company that’s too scared to do anything interesting with the internet, despite being perfectly placed to try to do cutting-edge things. And then I run across the summary for next year’s O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and frankly, I just get more depressed at what I’m missing.

This entry was originally published at my workblog.

On social software

Tom Coates writes as concise a definition of good social software as I’ve seen, and one I want to come back to for Londonlist:

*Every individual should derive value from their contributions
*Every contribution should provide value to their peers as well
*The site or organisation that hosts the service should be able to derive value from the aggregate of the data and should be able to expose that value back to individuals

This entry was originally published at my workblog.