non-random ramble

I gave a presentation at TW last thursday last month (August).

The subject was Collective design.

There was some interesting discussion about design in general.

For now, the slides can be seen here:

Collective design presentation

Abstract:
Software development implicitly creates a software “design”, the shape of the software artifact. To build software requires people. This talk discusses how the design of software is affected by and communicated between software developers, particularly on projects involving many people.

You would have thought this was the easiest thing in the world!

anyway after 1.5 hours trying various offerings i finally found this:

RapidoResizer

Which does exactly what you want. Simply drag a load of images on it and then resize them!!!!

It does however seem to reduce the quality a little, think i should have started out with png files rather than gifs.

Anyway i now have a way to put an entire presentation including effects on the web.

Simply view it and press COMMAND + SHIFT + 3 and OS X will save a picture to the desktop. Have to give it chance to catch up between shots.

Then can resize them with the above software and then rename them all – need a script for this but am to tired of software nonsense for one night!

and we are the dreamers of dreams… always wondered where that came from. Its in an Aphex twin track (i think!) anyway also sampled a few other places, the poem comes from:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ode_%28O%27Shaughnessy%29

curtesy of Josh

We are the music makers,
  And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
  And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,     5
  On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
  Of the world for ever, it seems.