How very strange. I was just thumbing through the paper and there’s an advert for a Tablet PC. The strange thing is that the PC (running Windows XP) is using Redhat’s Bluecurve Linux theme… I wonder what Redhat would have to say about that?

More work on the Gnome File Selector by Seth. Most interesting in this series of mockups is the save dialog box. In my opinion, this is probably the best Save As dialog I’ve seen. I’ve always felt that the Windows Save As dialog is not very intuitive, and I think the mockup is a great solution to this.

The emphasis on the Name box makes it much more clear what you are doing than the Save box in Windows, which looks far too similar to the Load dialog box. Often, I have to take time out to check I'm in the right dialog, which I shouldn't have to do. Having the Save dialog look different to the Load dialog is a good move.

Removing the Path box is another good move. Most people store their files in a very small subset of folders, that are single-level. This means that there really isn’t any hierarchy to them. The path string therefore promotes a hierarchical principle that doesn’t exist for many people.

An interesting article in the Guardian points a finger towards selfishness, rather than a growing altruistism in society, being a reason for the growing number of public shows of mourning. I have to agree with many of the points put forward. Many people are simply using the public grief to put a face on a real grief they have for a given event. However, I think that many people simply do it because everyone else seems to be doing it. Looking like a caring individual rather than being one would seem to be more important.

In many browsers, you can use the max-width CSS attribute to set a maximum width for a given portion of a webpage. Among other things, this allows you to constrain a the width of a large amount of text to a given width. It’s a well known fact that people are much more comfortable with line-lengths of around sixty characters than longer ones. Therefore setting a maximum width for a column of text allows you to keep line-lengths within reasonable limits.

Though the Death Cab for Cutie concert was last weekend, it would seem I’ve still not really written about it. I’ve been fairly busy this week with one thing and another, so you’ll have to forgive me. Though it was a good gig, it wasn’t much different to previous ones I’ve written about here, so I’ll not bore you. I’ll just say that you should go and see them if they play near you.