Charon's activity.log

Track of the week

Charon — 2010-07-28T15:42:25+02:00

Stunna - Aquarius [Play sample]

Another HQ production from fresh BassDriveTunes label. Keep rollin' guys.

Track of the week

Charon — 2010-07-11T18:06:04+02:00

Arje - Controlled Emotions [Play sample]

First false positive ever

Charon — 2010-06-01T12:40:37+02:00

I have experienced first false positive spam message ever since I started using DSPAM spam filter. Anyway ... check Monty Python's definition of spam as something unsolicited or undesired. In this case the original canned meat known and sold here in Prague as "lunch meat".

Track of the week

Charon — 2010-05-18T16:31:03+02:00

Undersound feat. Jane Thomas - Soul testify

Embassies as the architecture showroom

Charon — 2010-05-14T11:40:11+02:00

Check out the overview of embassies in current "architecture capital" of Europe - in Berlin. I did not view everything just about seven or eigth and my surprising favourite so far: Oman.

Web application that sucks example? Facebook

Charon — 2010-05-06T12:50:32+02:00

I have just read an interesting article Top 10 reasons why you should quit Facebook. There are a lot of complatins about privacy, unethical behavior, technical incompetence etc. which are definitely relevant and significant, but the truly gem there is located at the end of the text as the no. 1 reason: "the application itself sucks". I would sign that!

I created my Facebook profile because of an online marketing campaign in my work and since the firt moment I wondered why so many people use a love such a terrible web application as Facebook?

It has really horrible user interface (UI), for instance:

Non-intuitive navigation - the most items are somewhere else than you would expect and it takes time to locate anything
More ways of reaching the functionality - You can choose more ways of accessing certain functionality, which is not good itself. The worse is there are different options depending on the way you navigated (for example reding external RSS feed into Notes).
Important features missing - Why we can not edit the post in we make a typo? No editing, just delete and repaste once more ... with another typo maybe? :)
Bugs - Even the core features have bugs. If you use cut&paste to fill the wall post and have longer text, you get wrong alignment. The only way to keep it correct? Retype!
Options hell - The ton of different settings seems to be designed only to annoy the user to be kept at the default.
Low availability - I wouldn't declare myself as a heavy Facebook user, but even though I regularly get "Page is currently not available, try later" message or load of the page just dies and the content remains disabled in grey and the only way is to reload the page - even the links on the page do not work anymore?!

That reminds me of another "UI comparison" that hits the nail - Regular TV remote vs. Apple remote.

Track of the week

Charon — 2010-04-28T10:25:48+02:00

Technicolour & Komatic - Dickinson's rocket [Play sample]

Steve's razor

Charon — 2010-04-21T22:19:48+02:00

Found an interesting article discussing the same strategy/process behind original Apple Mac in 1984 and today with iPhone/iPad. One of the original Mac developers describes Steve Job's success formula. Check at least IMO most inspiring chapters "Fearless leader" and "Steve's razor".

Track of the week

Charon — 2010-04-16T11:25:25+02:00

Nuclear - Hidden weapon [Play sample]

Early spring nature patterns

Charon — 2010-04-08T16:05:09+02:00

A few images of the patterns found in the nature in a much darker day than this one.