I did a bit of a redesign of dx13 today. I’m pleased with the result; it is a departure from my previous designs in that it isn’t black-on-white. I’m not quite sure whether the dx13 title on the picture should be changed to a similar brown to the text, though having it black does ensure it stands out. There are various other tweaks I’m thinking about, but I am going to leave things be.
J mentioned it in the sidebar: Bluefunk is coming to look somewhat like Muine. Is this intentional on my part? As with many things, in some ways it is, and in some ways it isn’t. Before I started work on Bluefunk, I used Muine. I believe Muine has a far better interface than iTunes, Rhythmbox et al. Jorn has really thought about how most people listen to music and reproduced it on a computer.
Congratulations on your storage upgrade from 2MB to 250MB!
Lots of love the Hotmail staff…
Congratulations?! Wtf are they congratulating me for? Their sudden realisation that 2MB is completely inadequate? Let’s be honest, with storage now at £1 per GB, they are spending a whole 25 pence on the space they are giving me now; not exactly a huge display of generosity.
Another instance of Microsoft trying to make themselves out as absolute legends and generous as hell, as opposed to the reality that they were suddenly not so far ahead of the curve as they like to believe…
A small note about what I’m up to at the moment. As seems to be the norm for this year — my final year at university — I am currently sitting facing five big deadlines within ten days of each other. This isn’t exactly conducive to spending time writing for dx13. I believe that it gets somewhat less hectic after our exams in January.
This isn’t the real reason, however, just my excuse. The real reason is that I’ve been spending most of the time where I’m not working hacking on bluefunk. Those of you who have been watching my Linux screenshot in the sidebar will have noticed the results of my work steadily producing a nicer player. I’ve also been squashing big bugs in the playlist logic that were leading to quite a few crashes. I’ve also been cleaning up the UI; sanding down the rough edges. Finally I have been neatening the internals for -data handling, including escapes for Pango rendering.
Well, after the optimism of the last post, gloom has become the more relavent emotion on the Girl front. As alluded to in the last post, it’s was pretty difficult to actually get a decent conversation with her. Next conversation was Friday and did last a while. However, no replies to either of my calls yesterday. To me this indicates one of two things:
The latter more positive, the former the one you’re forced to presume to be the case. Either way, not exactly a portent for much contact in the future. I’m not holding out much hope for it. Shame, ‘cause she did seem pretty interesting and amusing.