Made some progress on this tonight, mostly just adding the grass to imitate the Welsh flag a bit more. Still not finished though.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Twitter dragon – a mascot for Welsh tweeters
A simple mashup of the Twitter cartoon bird identity and 'Y Ddraig Goch' that appears on the Welsh flag. It’s not finalised yet, but it’s nearly there. When I look at it again in a few day, I’ll probably spot exactly what needs to be tweaked to make it just right. Of course, feedback at this stage is often useful too. :)
I’m thinking about putting him on a grassy backdrop, to imitate the Welsh flag even more.
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Mark Shuttleworth has kicked up a bit of a storm by apparently saying that Linux was “hard to explain to girls”. There is an open letter post about this on the Geek Feminism Blog, followed by a hell of a lot of comments on the subject. It seems to boil down to ‘he didn’t really mean it like that‘, ‘it’s not okay to say that kind of thing, even if you didn’t mean it like that‘ and ‘has anyone seen this video or a transcript anyway?‘
Anyway, I’ve made a little graphic that Ubuntu could use for their 11.10 release if they wanted to tackle this issue. :)
(Please note this was produced with a high level of sarcasm and irony. If you are offended, please look up those words before commenting!)
Blogging icons
I’ve been slightly tweaking a nice WordPress theme to use for my blog, and I wanted to use some nice minimalistic icons. I had in mind the excellent Picol project icons, but on closer inspection they were a bit mismatched and when I saw them in place they looked like they had come from several different icon sets.
So these were heavily inspired by Picol, but a little more rounded and consistent with each other. The set took less than an hour.How do you turn 3.9million internet pirates into 7million? A lesson in statistics.
Where the British Government’s official figure on the level of illegal filesharing in the UK came from:
- Survey 1,176 people
- 136 admit of filesharing – that’s 11.6%
- Beef that up a bit, some must have been lying: 16.3% sounds good.
- Let’s assume there are 40million people in the country with net access
- (Actual figure according to the ONS: 33.9m)
- That’s a shocking 7million pirates in the UK!
- (Actual figure: 3.9million)
And guess where the figure came from: Government > Forrester Research > Jupiter Research > Commissioned by the BPI, the music trade body. This stuff drives me batshit.
People don’t choose to use IE
I know this isn’t huge news to anyone, but I thought it was interesting to see how much IE usage dips at the weekends. Despite being fairly far behind IE overall, it’s pretty clear which browser many would rather be using.
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