Well I logged into Facebook today and saw the new homepage design for the first time. Is it just me or did they not even tell anybody they were going to redesign it?
Right off the bat the first thing I noticed was the three icons next to the Facebook logo in the upper left hand corner. I don’t particularly like them for 2 reasons. Firstly they are very dark and easily missed. Secondly and partly because they are so dark it’s not immediately understood what they are for. You have to mouse over them and wait for the tool tip to pop up to know what they do.
Next the sidebar. It’s very wide and the font size is rather small. I would prefer they increase the font size to make it more readable and/or have icons on the top section for the menu items that don’t change ie: news feeds, messages, events etc.
I don’t know what the deal is with the applications either. They included a game in the list that I haven’t played now in almost 8 months and it was above 1 I played just last week. They aren’t sorted by alphabetical order either from what I can see so I really don’t know how they are sorting it at this stage.
I clicked on the messages link expecting they had simply renamed the status updates option and was instead taken to my email inbox. Now I don’t know about anyone else but I have a gmail account and a yahoo account and to be honest I don’t even think about using my facebook mail so this really isn’t a big feature for me. I’d rather have the status updates option, YMMV. I don’t want to see the whole news feed when I first log into facebook. I want to check everyone’s status and reply if I choose to and only after doing that am I interested in reading the news feed. So that’s a -1 for me.
Now I’ve just clicked on the Facebook chat box in the lower right of the screen and it has opened up a large pop-up window that takes up well over 75% of my screen and stops me from being able to do anything else whilst chatting. Am I the only person who likes to actually use the computer whilst chatting? Having to constantly Alt+Tab between the window I’m reading and the chat window is rather annoying.
The main section of the screen is at first glance the same as it has been for a while now so I wont go into it here You should be familiar with how it works by now.
Finally logging out. It isn’t immediately obvious how you should log out of Facebook and whilst I was able to work it out in a few seconds I can see other people being stumped by it and getting rather frustrated.
Well that’s all from me at this stage regarding the latest changes to Facebook. I will have more of a chance to explore the new interface tomorrow and may put up another post when I have done that.
Let me know your thoughts, opinions etc in the comments below
I used to have 2 piercings. The 1st was the standard ear lobe stud for about $10 at a local hairdressers. The 2nd and funnily enough 1 I swore I’d never get was a PA or Prince Albert piercing (NSFW). Follow the link and you’ll understand why.
I totally loved the PA. The only reason I took it out was the missus said it hurt during sex, maybe it did I’ve just gotta take her word for it. Everything I read online from girls said they loved it. Who knows.
I still have the curved barbell (6g btw) and I definitely plan on getting it re pierced just as soon as I get the spare money.
The lobe piercing has been out for I-don’t-know-how-long. It was 1 of those piercings that at the time I really needed to do, kind of a “I’ve moved on from you” kind of thing. Now I hope to replace it with an Orbital lobe.
Basically it’s 2 piercings done in my case horizontally through the lobe and connected by a cbr ring. I’ve seen a few pictures of it done and it looks hot.
The 2nd piercing is the septum. Unlike the PA when I first saw the Septum I really liked it. I hope to get this done at some stage but I know it will get a reaction from people including those in my immediate family and I guess that is the main reason I have kept putting it off.
So anyway that’s my story, Feel free to leave any thoughts in the comments below or tell me your piercing stories, why you got a certain piercing or why after getting it you’ve taken it out … I’d love to hear them
I’ve just this week discovered the Gnu projects IceCat browser.
Here is a snippet from their web site to better explain things
GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser. Its main advantage is an ethical one: it is entirely free software. While the principal source code from the Mozilla project is free software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins and addons
So basically I chose to use it because it is promoting the free software ideals that I believe in and because it is still at it’s core the browser that I love and have chosen to use above all others, free or otherwise.
n.b as a side note being free also means I am able to contribute to the development of the product and/or the promotion of the product or in any other way that I see fit. As can anyone else that chooses to.
Ok just a short post for today. I didn’t do a fitness walk on Thursday as such rather I decided to take a bus into the city and I spent the afternoon walking around sightseeing I guess you’d call it. The original plan was to visit the Museum but when I got there I realised I had forgotten that it’s the last week of the holidays and as such every mum and her pram was there.
So anyway as I was saying I didn’t do a dedicated 30min workout but I basically spent nearly 5 hours just wandering around and considering I would normally have been sitting in front of my pc for that amount of time (or more!) I reckon that is pretty good.
So often in life we do something because it’s easier or because that’s the way it’s always been done. Well here is an experiment to find out if by making something fun you can change peoples behaviour. Follow the link to check out the video.
Yeah I know I never wrote a day 1 but ya get that.
So anyway today I was awake and not at the computer (shock, horror) and I decided it was a good time to head out for a walk. For those that don’t know me I don’t walk, Period. I mean I’ve driven less than 1km to go to the shops for milk or a paper. So the fact that I have decided to start walking for exercise is a major milestone for me.
Anyway the conditions today were 22c, 60% humidity and sunny. Humidity was a bit high for my liking but other than that it was a nice day. I decided to walk for 30mins and set my timer for 15mins so I would know when I was half way through.
I had the FOSS podcast on my iphone which I hadn’t listened to yet so I put the headphones on and grabbed a water bottle and headed out.
I run Firefox on my awesome Asus Eee pc. It’s 1 of those revolutionary new Netbooks with in this case a 9in screen.
The trouble is while the screen size is small applications like Firefox only make it worse by having 3 or 4 toolbars running by default. Read the rest of this entry »
I’m at my Lady’s tonight. Eddie has an EEG @ 10am @ PMH and then another test after that. I was initially meant to sleep here after work so the other kids had an adult to turn to if they needed anything.
Now I’m taking him to his tests cause the other night he wouldn’t/couldn’t sleep cause he was worried about it and I said I could take him instead of Mummy as I have been through it all before. Read the rest of this entry »
