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the synergy of humanity and technology
So, I’ve been running a little experiment – pretty much handling all or as much of my communication as possible via Google+, including what would have been going up here.
How has it worked?
Better than I expected, in many ways, and yet, I still need this place as a home base. The busy nature of Google+, which gives me the engagement I seek, also means that things you write tend to disappear quite quickly.
So I suspect I shall keep this as a home base for some time to come – one of several home bases, actually.
Which leads me to my question today – can anyone tell me what is the significance of the title of my blog post, and the image, to the platform on which all of this is running?
And when I say “all”, I mean ALL.
Email your answers to brett DOT legree AT barefootcyborg DOT com and you’ll be entered into a draw for yet another prize – an official Ubuntu CD!
Good luck!
Like the image! Particularly the “xt” portion. And the “ne” actually. The cube makes my fingers itch to start Photoshop and play with it more. Can’t help myself.
I *am* going to claim unfair advantage and refrain from answering your question.
Hey, thank you – I can’t take credit for the original design of the image, just the concept and the name.
I have an interesting “tweak” to pull in the heritage of the original cube as well as the logo from one of my other sites. I’ll have to play around a bit in Pixelmator to see if I can bring it to life…
Tell you what – if no one else at all enters, I’ll give you double entries on the next contest.
And just to make it more of a random draw:
All you have to do is leave a comment, and you’ll be entered into the draw – how does that sound?
I’ll end the formal contest at 00:00 UTC August 3 2011.
I like the logo too; especially the “e.” I was just about to tweet this, until I realized that the end date of August 3 has passed. I’ll watch for the next contest!
Google+ does move quickly and so that is a good point about your posts being buried quickly. Too bad there isn’t a way to “favourite” your posts and store them where your circle members can find them easily. What they need is to set up “circle categories” where we could store our posts in archives similar to blogs.
Hey, glad you like it, Davina – it is a truly special logo, one of a kind.
I figure Google+ will mature into something like that – to be honest, I think it has surpassed even their expectations and they don’t know what to do with it!!!
I’ll have another contest soon and try to make it a bit easier for folks
plus the prize will be something “non-Ubuntu” but still geekish to the core…
LOL, Brett! I just did a Google image search for “geekish to the core,” you know… just for the fun of it. Well, the logo you posted at the beginning of this post was there… linked to this blog
Rock on! Hehehe.
Really? That’s kind of cool
glad to know that someone has noticed me!
As it happened, sometime in the late 80′s, I happened to have been hired to help configure what must have been one of the very first of those to which you obliquely refer.
I remember being quite confused by the icons
Yeah, it can be a bit of a shift in thinking when you start using a NeXT or NeXT-like interface.
I’ve tinkered with it in VMware but most of my experience has been via Window Maker and GNUSTEP.
I still like to run it on my Linux machines since it just stays out of my way and uses very little in terms of resources. I guess it also appeals to my ‘engineer brain’ if you can call it that (though I am starting to think it’s more of an appreciation for modernist designs and art than any kind of logic!)