Being pedantic

I'm a bit of a usability nerd. I'm all about intuitive interfaces, logical organisation of data, self explanatory navigation. So here is my gripe.

I've been trawling through the archives of a few blogs and things lately (remembering that one feature of using a blog format for a major site is the ability to place your content in a timeline). And, almost without fail, down the bottom of the page, there is the pair of links 'previous page', 'next page' or some other ambiguously labeled link.

The problem I encounter, when I'm further back then the front page, is the horrible inconsistency among sites to decide which way in time they are moving. Often I will click 'previous page', expecting to be taken back in time (blogs being timelines and all) to previous posts. But instead it takes me back to the page I was previously at. The newer one. So the next site I visit, I click 'next page', and I am again taken forward. Some people who give over a certain amount of eloquence to resort to 'older posts/entries' and 'newer posts/entries' achieve a better user experience. People just need to make up their mind.



In other news, I bought a 50mm f1.8 lens for my camera. I've been wanting it for ages, and I don't think its going to be coming off the camera for awhile. Great sharpness, depth of field etc. Brilliant 'normal' lens.

And now brace yourself for a shameless plug:

Vena Cava Productions Presents:

Fresh Blood 2007

Featuring two original plays:

No Bare Feet

Written by Bronte Coates

&

It Would Be Rude Not To

Written by James Grant & Sam Davies

Preview 2pm on Sunday 7 ^th October 2007
Opening at 7pm on Sunday 7^th October 2007 at 7pm
2pm and 7pm on Saturday the 13^th October
7pm Sunday the 14 ^th October

In the Woodward Theatre – Kelvin Grove QUT

Tickets cost - $7 Vena Cava members, $10 Students, and $12 Adults

To book your tickets call: 0421 253 795 or email: venacavaprod@gmail.com

Fresh Blood is a production showcasing 2 student written/directed/produced shows, and will prove to be an interesting combination, one being a surrealist piece, the other an 'Aussie comedy'. I'm stage managing the comedy and would like us to show to a full theatre. A full theatre of young people would be even better. So get along if you have time :)

Some good news...

-I may be late on the uptake, but my (and many others) beloved Gotye picked up 5 ARIA nominations, for his remix album 'Mixed Blood'. He's already taken out 'Best Cover Art'(stupid fasterlouder, getting their shit wrong. It was actually Mondrian Silverchair who won that)and is up for, among others, Best Male Artist, and Album of the Year. Well done Wally!!!!!

This is apparently Photoshops new logo and tag line (it seems this one is for marketing purposes, as Adobe stresses that they have not done away with the existing one. Y'know. The feather and stuff.):


I. Do Not. Like It. The tagline is perfectly viable, but the logo makes it look like Photoshop has mysteriously become this web 2.0-ish social networking site, where they get carried away with their shiny glass-like buttons and boxes and logos. Like this speech bubble.

If you replaced the 'Photoshop' with 'Twitter', then you would have something that made sense.