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Leaving Catalyst
After 11 years 1 month and 28 days it's time for me to farewall Catalyst IT. While this is something that I've been working towards for the last couple of years, my reasons for leaving don't reflect any large dissatisfaction with Catalyst, but rather my own disinterest in fulfillling a role which is deemed appropriate to an executive director of the company it has become. As well, it is Catalyst's current and continuing success which provides me with the opportunity to fade out, like the cheshire cat, without the need to have strong plans.
I do believe that the use and understanding of free and open-source software in New Zealand has matured to a point where there is the potential for an independent to make a few dollars reviewing or planning for open source projects in corporate and government areas. I hope I'll find out.
And a great big thank you to every one of you — staff, clients, suppliers and friends — who has made Catalyst such a fantastic place to be a part of. It really will be a hard act to follow.
Finally: DAViCal 0.9.5
Finally, I have released DAViCal 0.9.5. Hopefully this will resolve the series of installation- and upgrade- related problems which plagued the 0.9.4 release.
Thanks for everyone being patient while this release was thoroughly tested through five pre-release versions, and especially thanks to those patient people who helped test those pre-releases.
Now if I don't get too distracted by:
- processing my GPS tracks of the last two weeks around the South Island
- Uploading my last six months worth of photos
- Making sure the kids have done their homework
- Describing the places near where I live.
- ...anything else that catches my interest
... then maybe I will be able to really concentrate on nailing the scheduling extensions work over the next couple of months...
Wish me luck!
It's just a Small Matter of Firewalling, isn't it?
The IPv6 wave progresses apace. Well, perhaps not 'apace', but it is moving...
The latest kernel exploit has incidentally had some local fallout in causing more of our boxen here to be upgraded to kernels with IPv6 support, and as a consequence our mail server is now reachable on IPv6. Some have suggested that making it only reachable on IPv6 is a good solution to spam but I suspect that there are still a few mailservers out there that we do want to receive e-mail from which are not IPv6 capable yet!
Since I can now SMTP and IMAP happily over IPv6 I decided it was time to get more adventurous. IPv6 is now in Squid3 head, so I built Etch packages of that and it seems to be 'basically working' in a few places now. We've been using ircd-ircu for a long time for an IRC daemon and it similarly seems that now has IPv6 support, so I backported that to Etch as well.
Packages are available for i386 and amd64 from my repository:
deb http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch ipv6 deb-src http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/debian etch ipv6
If I think of more Etch things that I need for IPv6 I'll put them there too. I do have dircproxy for Etch with support for connecting to IPv6 ircd but I seem to have misplaced the packages somewhere. If you're keen on seeing that then I'm sure I can reconstruct them somehow...
Now that we are having increasing amounts of IPv6 around some things are starting to reduce down to a 'Small Matter of Firewalling', which is suggesting to me that we will need manage our firewall rulesets differently for IPv6 than we have for IPv4.
In a lot of cases we can turn on/off large chunks of access related to a particular person/organisation by disabling a VPN, with the firewalling being a somewhat static monolithic overriding control above that. With the control potentially moving away from the VPN, and more directly into the firewall rules, we will need clearer association mechanisms in place. Of course we will continue to have VPNs, but they might become somewhat simpler, reducing in many cases to encrypted tunnels between exact endpoints.
Using NZ Open GPS Maps from Linux
A GPS is one of those toys that I have wanted for a very long time. So last year I finally marshalled enough excuses in one place, lined them up and plunked down some money for a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx in the vague belief that there's enough Linux software out there which understands GPS, and the Garmin is a brand that seems to have mature Linux support. And besides, I'd been told it was a good model that would do what I wanted and then some.
Once I got it I naturally wanted to do stuff with it, and in particular I wanted to connect it up to my laptop which (of course) is running Linux and I found that it wasn't nearly as trivial as I had thought.
This prompted me to run around finding software to use with it, so here's my capsule review of my journey from "extremely naive" to "very naive". Perhaps I'll also learn something from the comments of people who are further down the track.
My first resort was "apt-cache search gps", of course, which immediately brings up such fine sounding programs as "gpsman", described as "A GPS manager" (I haven't managed to get it to do anything yet), "gpstrans" which since it specifically mentions Garmin GPS sounded like just the ticket (it appears to be quite old and superseded). There was some useful stuff as well.
gpsd | Connects to your GPS and relays that in a format that all of the other software understands. This seems to have a fairly active development community. A bug I discovered was fixed quite quickly in a new release. |
gpsdrive | This software seems quite functional, though most of what it is trying to do is done by my GPS already. It can talk directly to many GPSs but I used gpsd for the actual communication, which provides broader support and multiplexes the GPS data so it isn't locked by a single applications. |
gpsbabel | This very powerful comannd-line tool will inter-convert many GPS data formats. |
Getting Maps on the GPS
Since the Garmin GPSMap series will display maps, I wanted to be able to get some mapping data on there. There are two map sources I was interested in:
- Map data from NZ Open GPS Maps which gives comprehensive coverage of New Zealand, and is free and community maintained, albeit with some annoying uncertainties about the licensing of the data, and it's being tied to Garmin GPSs.
- Map data from OpenStreetMap.org which gives excellent coverage of many areas of the world, and is free for use under a creative commons license.
Using the NZ Open GPS Maps
The NZ Open GPS Maps are built specifically for the Garmin GPS, so getting them onto my GPS was relatively simple once I found out the exact command line was remarkably hard.
The program that I needed to find to be able to get the maps onto my GPS was sendmap20
which is a free (as in beer) download from the cGPSMapper Website.
I downloaded the maps from the NZ Open GPS Maps hosted on the cGPSMapper site. I needed the files identified as 'binary' files - the installer is a Windows program and no use on Linux. They all have filenames like 64000012.img
The command-line I first used to install the maps onto the GPS was:
sendmap20 -t/dev/ttyUSB0 640000??.img
That works fine, but if you have even a moderately sized micro SD card in the GPS there are much faster ways. As I found more free maps I found much better ways to do it.
An alternative approach
In the GPS (well, in my one anyway) there is a micro-SD card which is FAT formatted and all of the installed maps are in one humungous combined image of all of the uploaded maps. This means that there is no way to straightforwardly add/remove maps without creating that image, and re-uploading the whole thing. The image file is called 'gmapsupp.img' and is in the 'garmin' subdirectory on the SD card.
This means that you can create the file (or even several different files, with different maps on them) and move them directly on there much quicker, either by taking the SD card out and using it in a USB2 reader (for really big files) or switching the GPS to operate in USB Storage mode (which is USB1, but OK for smaller files).
You can create the IMG file to copy in as gmapsupp.img
with sendmap20 also, with a command-line like:
sendmap20 -lNZOpenGPSMaps.img 640000??.img
and then, if you mount the GPS as /media/GPS, you can copy that file on directly
cp NZOpenGPSMaps.img /media/GPS/garmin/gmapsupp.img
Another program I found useful specifically for dealing with the Garmin GPS Map format is QLandKarte, which understands the native Garmin format and will display the maps in a graphical window.
You can also point and click to select maps, building up a specific set that you can then upload to the device from within QLandKarte itself. This seems to operate a lot faster than sendmap20, presumably because it's driving the USB directly, rather than through usb_serial. To get it to work I seem to have to (a) sudo rmmod garmin_gps and (b) sudo QLandKarte, however, which is definitely not ideal.
For the moment I will continue to use sendmap20 to create files which are sets of the maps I want, and will put them on the device in USB storage mode.
QLandKarte is still very useful, however, for looking at maps and deciding if they are worth bothering with. I used it in this way to select the Australian maps I took with me when I went to Linux.Conf.AU recently. There are more free Garmin GPS maps.
Those Australian maps came from OpenStreetMap.org and ultimately I expect that it will become the best source of data for creating maps for my GPS. OpenStreetMap.org is an attempt to provide community-maintained maps for the whole world and which seems to have made significant progress in UK, Europe, America and Australia as well as many other parts of the world.
The data from OpenStreetMap.org does not have the same licensing restrictions as are present even in the NZ Open GPS Maps data (which is relatively free, but has problems similar to the old-style BSD license).
There are also some good mapping interfaces to the OpenStreetMap data although the searching currently still leaves something to be desired. Interfaces are also available for extracting subsets of the data, which is in a fairly straightforward XML format, or you can download the whole lot, but at nearly 3GB for the bzip2 compressed version you won't do it every day.
I gave a brief overview talk about OpenStreetMap.org while I was at Linux.Conf.AU and it seemed to go down quite well (I gave it several times, in fact). You don't need a GPS to contribute to the project, and of course the maps which are being created are usable for many purposes beyond their usefulness on GPS. Some people apparently even print them out, but that just seems weird!
LCA 2008 so far
LCA officially started today, with a great opening keynote by Bruce Schneier very nicely pointing out the differences between feeling secure and being secure, and with a few good examples of where these are mismatched and action needs to be taken to fix the mismatch. Good stuff - catch it on video if you get the chance.
Of course for me LCA started on Monday when I got roped into presenting a lightning talk at the Community Wireless miniconf on OpenStreetMap.org which is something I've been fiddling with recently, and a project which definitely deserves more attention. Since nobody else turned up to give their lightning talks my 3 minute presentation was stretched severely out of shape, but the Community Wireless miniconf was generally pretty interesting and I stayed there all day in the end.
Yesterday was the SysAdmin miniconf, and as one of the organisers there was no chance for me to look around at what else was going on. It was a full-on day, and the feedback I have from everyone is that it was a good miniconf. Certainly it was good enough to attract more people than could fit in the 120 seat theatre we initially had allocated so that we had to move into a much larger theatre. A big thank-you to the organisers for so quickly recognising and reshuffling things so that was possible.
All signs so far definitely indicate another great linux.conf.au
Which is the more interesting hackspace: X or Linux?
A curiously interesting thread has sprung up on the Xorg mailing list recently regarding the lack of bandwidth the developers might have for accepting patches. Bernardo Innocenti, who hacks on OLPC stuff amongst other things, wants to get some patches reviewed for acceptance, but there aren't enough people around with the time and inclination to review and accept his work.
He did a quick and dirty analysis of Xorg LoC vs Linux LoC, to give a "X codebase is roughly 1/2 Linux codebase" (which surprised me, actually, I'd always thought it was larger) and then a similarly rough analysis that suggests that Xorg has roughly 1/20th of the developer base.
To some extent Bernardo's metrics are arguable, but the basic facts are that Linux gets the lions share of the developers. Is this what we should expect? Is this a healthy way for the free and open source software community to support the development of what I personally would like to see as the future desktop base?
Linux does a fantastic job as an OS, right now. It's been doing it for years, really, but we still need to get behind some of the differential further up the stack. And all credit to those stalwarts of X development who are shouldering more than their fair share of the burden.
So if you were looking for an open source software project where you can be appreciated, don't overlook X.
DAViCal and support for Apple's CalDAV client in OS 10.5
Quite a few people seem impressed with the new release of Leopard, and are now looking for a CalDAV server to use with their shiny new iCal app. Unfortunately it seems that Apple wrote this primarily to work with their own (free, open-source) calendar server, which has the side effect that it doesn't work with DAViCal.
Part of the "doesn't work" is due to DAViCal not implementing some areas of the CalDAV specification, which is fair enough. Part of it is due to DAViCal not implementing some draft extensions to the CalDAV specification, which I can also understand, since it allows them to provide some useful features that those extensions are designed to support. There also seem to be some parts of the "doesn't work" which are due to a dependence on extensions beyond either of these cases, which is a little more disappointing - and quite a bit harder to implement.
So far I have made some fixes to the first point, and some additions towards parts of the second, but as of today it still does not work. This is complicated by my not having access to a Mac. Things are looking up, however, because Tom Robinson has kindly agreed to loan me a Mac running Leopard from next week.
In order to "clear the slate" for that, I will be releasing a 0.9.2 over the weekend with the various minor enhancements and fixes that have been applied over the last week. So although this upcoming release will let you add your DAViCal account to iCal 3, it still won't actually work with it. I'm hoping that ready access to the application will enable me to correct that fairly quickly.
Also waiting in the wings (and which unfortunately won't be in 0.9.2 either) Maxime Delorme has been working on SyncML support, and is nearly ready with a patch, so we can look forward to that addition fairly soon also.
CRM114 Awesomeness
I hate spam!
Which probably puts me in the same camp as 99.99999% of the world. The other 1 in 10 million are, of course, the spammers, who seem to take the space invaders approach to sending e-mail: we'll keep sending you more until you die.
A few years ago I used to only receive perhaps 1 every 100 seconds, which was pretty annoying, but Spamassassin was quite able to filter out 99% of those and let through about 1-2 each day, which I could deal with. My spam levels increased to maybe 1 every 20 seconds, and late in 2005 I implemented a second layer of spam filtering on my laptop using DSpam. This worked quite effectively, but DSpam is really not the tool for the job - it's much more appropriate as a company-wide antispam solution, and potentially as a replacement for Spamassassin. It drove me nuts on my laptop because it's resource usage slowed down the interactive response.
When I got my new laptop at the beginning of the year I decided against continuing with my rather baroque mail setup and to leave the spam filtering on the server. What I didn't realise is that my spam rate had increased again to around 1 every 8 seconds, and it has been slowly driving me to distraction ever since. It seems to have cranked up another notch recently, to perhaps 1 every 3 seconds now, so that 1% making its way through Spamassassin was getting to a very annoying several hundred each day. The longer I took to resolve it, the more time I would be wasting dealing with it every day.
What I chose to apply on this occasion was CRM114, which I had some vague idea might be able to help. I was fairly impressed by the relatively simple install, but what completely blew me away was the speed with which it was able to learn to be useful. Starting from scratch, it seems to be correctly classifying over 90% of my incoming mail after about 12 hours of training, on a total of only 75 'Unsure' messages. Even after only an hour it was getting over 50% (I'll describe my actual CRM114 installation process in a comment below). So far there have been no false positives.
Now that CRM114 is installed I will be able to look into some of it's other mail classifying features too, and I'm really looking forward to that too.
Getting Blood from a Stone
Last week I installed Ubuntu Gutsy onto Heather's laptop. While Gutsy seems to be an easy task for most situations, installing it onto a Pentium 366 laptop with 200M of RAM and (particularly) an 800x600 screen was harder than it perhaps should have been.
I'm sure that most installations these days aren't 800x600, but the graphical installer in Gutsy seems determined to make this painful. I had to move the toolbars to the sides of the screen, and then I could see the top half of the buttons on each page. It was like the page was sized for 600 vertical pixels, but the designer had forgotten about toolbars and title bars - not that I could see any screens in the process I followed that needed more than 5/6 of that screen anyway. Eventually I got it installed, and it even seemed to run OK once we booted into it. That's "OK for a 200M P366 with an 800x600 screen" though.
Looking around at the price of a new laptop made putting up with that sort of performance a whole lot less palatable. The Acer Aspire 5310 (with free RAM upgrade) was $898 at Dick Smith, with a $99 cashback offer. A quick google shows that it's using the Broadcom 43xx wireless which isn't even close to being the best, but can be made to work with Linux. Everything else seemed likely to work, so we bought it.
Installing Gutsy on it was nearly trivial, though I had to install bcm43xx-fwcutter on a different PC (my laptop, which is running Debian, in fact) to get the firmware for the WLAN before I could get the wireless working. I'm surprised that Broadcom still don't make that firmware publicly available somewhere, rather than forcing people to jump through the sort of hoops that would get them wanting an Intel chipset next time.
Anyway, everything installed very easily, and the laptop is working quite nicely. Strangely neither sound, nor suspend to ram are working out of the box. They're not so important in this case fortunately, but perhaps in due course I'll try and get them working and post some details about it.
Much harder has been getting the fabled 'cashback' from Acer. I think I now know what I'm being paid $99 for. Firstly the only way to get your cashback is by registering through a webpage. Heather's first attempt to do this resulted in an error from our proxy about a malformed request, so I got called in. I tried registering using on my laptop, but couldn't even get to the cashback page. I then tried using IE6, with similar results. So perhaps it's my PC? I tried using a different PC, with the same result again!
We tried ringing them up, but they were absolutely determined that (even after 20 minutes on the phone) they were not going to accept that information over the phone. So the only way to get the cashback from Acer was via their thoroughly broken website. Even their Contact Acer page is broken in firefox just showing a blank. Firefox users need not apply.
In Other News: DVD Slideshow
Meanwhile I've been playing with DVD Slideshow which seems to be just what my parents have been after for a while, so they don't have to keep their favourite photos on the camera to be able to show them off on someone's TV. It's great! At least it is great now after I changed all the calls to ffmpeg to add a 'k' after the bitrate parameter. But that's Open Source Software, I guess. I'll send a patch to them... :-)
Release 0.9.0 of DAViCal CalDAV server
I have not been able to put a lot of effort into DAViCal over the last couple of months, since my father was diagnosed with stomach cancer in early September, and he died on 2nd October.
So here it is, finally, including a lot of refactoring work around the handling of DAV/CalDAV REPORT requests and implementation of the DAV::principal-property-search report. This also requires an upgrade to the latest AWL library (0.20), which includes a complete rewrite to the class used for parsing and rendering iCalendar data.
This release is recommended, since you will need some of this stuff to support the upcoming Mozilla Calendar 0.7 release properly.
At this point I have only released the files to http://debian.mcmillan.net.nz/ and I'll push it out to a wider audience if I don't here screams of anguish from people in the next few days :-)
This release does not have any associated database changes, so it should be a simple matter to install the upgraded code.
Software of the week
This week has been a week of pictures for me. I was looking around on Wikipedia earlier in the week and decided that the articles around the Porirua area where I live was looking a little barren. So I've been out taking a few snaps to liven it up a little. The articles themselves don't look that great either so I'll see if I can't put some effort into improving them as well.
As a result though, I've been playing with photographs and I'm finding that the graphics landscape on Linux has improved significantly since last time I was playing around with things. I've been using Hugin for making panoramas since someone pointed me to it at Debconf5 in Helsinki, but version 0.7beta4 with Panorama Tools 13 is an immense improvement. It seems that now if I take my photos the right way I can expect Hugin to create a panorama with only a couple of minutes of time, and no real effort to speak of. I built some Debian packages of Hugin 0.7beta4 and libpano13 which are here, if you're interested. Sadly, it seems that the current maintainer has not updated these packages for a long time.
Something I've also been trying to do properly for some time is to produce decent HDR images. Although the tools have been around for a while they are somewhat inaccessible to people, taking a long time to gain any kind of intuitive understanding about how they work and what parameters a person should use. The answer, it turns out, is something like the Hugin one: provide a GUI front end. Well there now is one, and it's damn good. I've now started taking a few photos in triplicate so I can fiddle around with QtPfsGUI and learn to recognise the situations where HDR can make a better photo. It's not an addictive name, but it's great software and when I've managed to get my head around it I will create an HDR area on my gallery and put a few fun images in there. I've built some Debian packages of this also, but I've never had to deal with something using QMake before and it doesn't seem particularly friendly to packaging. Probably I'm just beating on it the wrong way. Anyway, here are some Debian QtPfsGui packages for anyone who is interested. Maybe if you know how better to drive qmake from a distribution point of view you could send me some tips.
Something that I really like about both Hugin and QtPfsGui is the way that they are providing a GUI framework for some pre-existing command-line tools. The separation of UI from function is a classic application of the Unix model that will be familiar to anyone who has ever piped find into xargs, and it really does allow for the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts. What is interesting about the two above, seems to be that by providing the UI they have managed to breathe some new life into the underlying functions as well.
The next thing that I'm really looking forward to is the upcoming 0.46 release of Inkscape SVG editor. This totally awesome program just gets better and better and a bunch of the upcoming enhancements come from the Google Summer of Code. Actually all of these programs are quite a bit better recently because of the sponsorship they have received from the GSoC.
There have been a few Catalyst people mentoring some GSoC projects - mostly around Moodle, Lisp and Git - so a couple of the Catalyst folks will be off to the big meetup / review in a couple of weeks. I hope those lucky stiffs pass on my thanks to everyone involved.
I have finally chosen a new name: DAViCal
After much wading through possible names, none of which really excited me, I have finally chosen "DAViCal" as the new name for my CalDAV server that was previously called RSCDS, or the "Really Simple CalDAV Store".
In the end, I chose DAViCal because it:
- seems easy to pronounce.
- combines the 'Cal' and 'DAV'.
- returns < 1000 results on google.
- doesn't make me cringe.
- didn't have a domain name registered.
That was about the hardest part of preparing for the 0.8.1 release, and now that I've done that I should manage to make the changes to the packaging, though I have no doubt that the old name will appear in all sorts of places for a while yet.
Choosing names is an important business, and I should know that from the length of time we spent agonising over names for our children, discarding all sorts of things because they had silly abbreviation collisions (like the "Royal Scottish Country Dance Society" :-) Even then, I think we got the kids names wrong, and the big one should be called "Thumper" with the little one called "Sly", but perhaps that's just a temporary annoyance and in time the names that we registered for them will fit them better.
I also recall Grant once saying that you should never use the word "Simple" in the name of your project, and he should know. DAViCal is no longer particularly simple, although I have attempted to hide the complexity from the user as far as that is possible, and will continue to do so.
Once I get out version 0.8.1 of DAViCal I will finally upload it to Debian, proper. This version has some important enhancements to its DAV spec compliance which are going to be needed by some future versions of Mozilla, and probably other things too, so it's important to push it out as soon as possible now.
Personality Types
Visiting Andy Chilton's blog to see how well his zaapt CMS is looking now I found this old entry and followed where it went.
I doubt if it surprises anyone that my personality type is ENTP, though it came very much as a surprise to me the first time someone suggested I was an extrovert. I also wonder if the long success of the Myers-Briggs type indicator is because of the magnificently flattering descriptions of all of the types.
Hosting on IPv6: autoconfiguration of IPv6 addresses may be harmful
The availability of IPv6 worldwide is surprisingly extensive, nowadays, but over the past years as it has slowly filtered around, people have had bad experiences with it because of poor routing. It seems that, as always, a bad rep travels about 20 times further than a good one, so an automatic response to casual problems that people see when using IPv6 is to blacklist it, without actually investigating the problem.
Take today, for an example. Someone said to me "I disabled IPv6 in Firefox because it was slow for one of my favourite sites". OK, so show me this favourite site. Show me the traceroute. Give me some facts!
Further investigation showed that although there is an AAAA record for www.crooksandliars.com, there is nothing listening on the other end! Looking at the AAAA record returned, we see that it is an autoconfigured IPv6 address of the form xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxFF:FExx:xxxx and can conjecture that the likely problem is that someone has done a hardware upgrade on their server, so they now have a different MAC, and consequently the autoconfigured IPv6 address has changed. Other scenarios are entirely possible, of course, but this is a likely one.
This is the second case I have seen where someone was running publicly available services on IPv6 using a manual DNS record pointing at an automatic IPv6 address, but I doubt that it will be the last. Unless there is infrastructure in place to automatically update your DNS when your address is autoconfigured, you are going to get bitten by this problem at some point if people remotely connect to your system for some service.
New Zealand "Summer of Code"
I see that there is another Wellington Summer of Code this year. I know that Catalyst didn't get involved last year because it seemed to be primarily for commercial interests, which was a disappointing contrast to the Google Summer of Code.
So it's good to see that they are sponsoring some open source projects, but I can't see us getting involved with it as it stands.
Meanwhile, of course, there are always a few openings at Catalyst for students over the summer break. That's paid work, of course, and won't always involve working full-time on FOSS projects.


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Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Shûji Terayama, 1971)
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Untitled (It's our pleasure to disgust you) by Barbara Kruger, 1982
As the excellent realityayslum has pointed out, the original photograph used here was Horace Roye's controversial Tomorrow's Crucifixion (1938)
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Marilyn Monroe, From The Last Sitting, Crucifix II by Bert Stern, 1962/2007
Illustrated in Stern, The Last Sitting, London, 1982; and Marilyn Monroe: La Dernière Séance, Paris, 2006. The "cross" appearing in the negative was drawn by Monroe.
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Hanel en croix lors de la 31 action du Theatre des orgies et des mysteres de Hermann Nitsch a Munich le 8 decembre 1969. Photos de Ludwig Offenreich retouchees a l'encre par Pierre Molinier.
(… from the book Pierre Molinier by Jean-Luc Mercie, les presses du reel 2010, pg.195)
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Symbolic Nude by Allen A. Dutton, 1965. Photograph, silver print. 16 x 15 cm.
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Alice Sweet Alice / Communion (Alfred Stole, 1976)
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Étude de la Crucifixion,c.1914 [see also] by František Drtikol
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Mert & Marcus, Religion (for Visionaire #60)
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Sunday 1st Sep 2013
I use the title guardedly, as these words featured and illustrated by Ella Frances Sanders at Maptia are all perfectly translatable, but as phrases rather than as neat single words. There's probably a neat word in a language somewhere that we could use to describe concepts-as-single-words that can't be translated into single words in other languages. We could of course make one up, say, we could call them uniglottal, i.e. existing as a word in only one language. Words like this get borrowed pretty quickly if they're useful enough, for example, Schadenfreude — and while words get borrowed all the time, here they're a special kind of loan word, describing an idea rather than a thing.
One of the words in the list, the lovely Japanese word komorebi reminded me of a word that's been sufficiently borrowed long enough not to be included in lists like this anymore: bokeh, which is well-known in photography, and like a lot of loan words doesn't venture much outside a particular profession or technical niche. Then you get to thinking of it and notice more and more, and it reminds me of a French colleague half-jokingly saying, "You can tell if an English word is one of the ones we brought over*: it has more than one syllable". Controversial.
If you're interested in the idea of words like this, Better Than English posts a new one fairly frequently.
* 1066 and all that, or, if you prefer.
Saturday 10th Aug 2013
I've been enjoying Patricio Betteo's 365 project for a few years now and somehow never linked to it here. The illustrations are (I think) added daily, though there've been a few months where it's not been updated at all (sounds familiar, can't think why). It's a regular source of inspiration for me, with a mix of illustrative styles, with occasional photographs and typographic designs, and always in a square format — the variety and quality are quite brilliant. Patricio Betteo is extraordinarily talented, and if you look through his blog or DeviantART portfolio you'll probably notice you've seen some of his work at some point even if you've not heard his name. Well worth a look.
Saturday 10th Aug 2013
I'm quite fond of illustrations made with restricted palettes (part of the appeal of mid-century printed ephemera, I think) so this project by Sameer Kulavoor (as Bombay Duck Designs) caught my eye when It's Nice That featured it.
The illustrations highlight the use of basic blue tarpaulins in Indian cities by abstracting all the other elements and leaving just the shadows and the blue colour to define the scene. If in India the blue tarp is ubiquitous, as in Kulavoor's words, "it makes for excellent sun-proofing, dust-proofing, pigeon-shit proofing, packaging, and temporary refugee camps." they're certainly familiar globally; I recall my father's motorbikes being protected from the rain with them, a neighbour's shed-rebuilding project shrouded in one (for years) and various festivals and outdoor markets seemingly constructed from them (and thickets of scaffolding poles). The book is available from Tadpole Store.
Saturday 10th Aug 2013
Created by Bart De Keyzer and Frederik Jacques, This is how I learn my ABC is a beautiful little educational app (or digital book, should you prefer) for the iPad. Clearly aimed at children, the app is delightfully presented with clean, crisp illustrations, bold typography and subtle animations, and therefore will probably get just as many designers as parents buying it (and I'd guess most of the overlap between those). The app is in three sections, the first a tour through the alphabet where you get to admire the big illustrations, hear the sounds of the animals and read a fact or two about each one, and the other two are quizzes that let you match the letter to the animal or vice versa, and keep score on how well you're doing.
There are some posters available to buy on Society 6 as well (there's no page listing all of them that I can see, so I've linked to D for Dog here). I think the name of the app is a little too dominant on them, if you got a 'full set' it'd look pretty strange — I'd rather they be more traditional with the illustration and animal name front and centre with the name of the app much less visible. After all, if you buy these for your home, who are you advertising to?
Tuesday 27th Nov 2012
Very much a hey, look at this post, this. I've just seen a link to this collection on Things Magazine of Pelican Books covers for the 1960s (and each decade they were published). It's interesting to see how the template developed along with the Penguin series until it all got a bit chaotic in the late '70s and was discontinued in the 1980s. Joe Kral also maintains a collection of Penguin and Pelican covers on Flickr.
Tuesday 27th Nov 2012
A couple of years ago I wrote about Kuka, the RobotLab project built to write the entire Martin Luther bible onto a long roll of paper. The robot emulates the calligraphic style replicated in the Schwabacher blackletter typeface, writing it using a pen as a (particularly neat and tireless) human might. It's quite a lovely thing*.
I was reminded of it when I saw this project by Walter Nicolino and Carlo Ratti (of Carlo Ratti Associati). They've designed and built a suspended plotter to write the contents of the Open Architecture Manifesto page on Wikipedia onto a wall at the Adhocracy exhibition at the Istanbul Design Biennial. As the text on Wikipedia is updated the robot erases and rewrites the document on the wall at the exhibition.
The comparison between the two projects is perhaps obvious, that one is reproducing a historical, unchanging document, while the other reproduces a brand new, constantly-updating and ephemeral one. Indeed until the manifesto was published in Domus magazine (whose editor Joseph Grima is curator of the biennial) the article kept being deleted by Wikipedia editors.
I'm especially interested how the plotter is reproducing the text. The typeface could be Times, but the generous amount of ink the fat nib of the plotter pen puts down, and the way it outlines the characters, makes it hard to tell exactly. Also, looking at the video the output is a serif face but part of the processing (in Processing) looks like it uses something more like Verdana or Tahoma. Could be that different parts of the text are in different faces of course. Curious.
* Though some people saw it as blasphemy and a sign of the imminent demise of humanity, the Earth, and the entire universe. I had some interesting emails.
Saturday 6th Oct 2012
I had been searching for something geometry-related when I found the Euclid book in the last post so when I found the Public Domain Review I wondered if they had anything else about the subject. Turns out they do, and I found this fascinating and somewhat bonkers book from 1887, Geometrical Psychology. Nothing to do with what I was looking for, but it has some remarkable illustrations in it where the author attempts to diagram the evolution of human consciousness. Some of my favourites:
The back of the book also has several pages of adverts for other works available from the publisher, and just the titles alone are fun to read through. Some of my favourites again:
Saturday 2nd Jun 2012
Looking for various calligraphic-related things on image search, on Graffuturism I find the work of Greg Papagrigoriou, a graffiti artist from Athens—or, to use the term, a calligraffiti artist from Athens. He creates densely textured pieces, often collaborating with Simek whose work often acts as a centrepiece or focus. The two artists' work complements each other perfectly and create striking images that remind me of protest posters or propaganda, but while on these the words flow and possess graphical rhythm, they defy any attempt to be read.
Friday 4th Nov 2011
A bit of a campaigning post, this one. The International Printing Museum is running a Kickstarter campaign to expand their collection of matrices for the Ludlow Typograph. It's a worthy project, to keep an example of fairly democratic technology in use and in people's awareness, to keep rare typefaces in use and to let people around the world use them – and, well, just because. The Ludlow is similar to the Linotype, but excels at producing slugs for very large type - over 200pt. In the words of British Letterpress:
The principles behind the Ludlow are simple — the operator collects a small brass mould for each character needed in the line. These are assembled into a 'stick', a small frame, and the moulds are clamped together to form a line of moulds. This stick and moulds are then clamped in to a machine which injects hot metal into the moulds. A line of type is cast and ejected from the front of the machine. The moulds have to be distributed back into the relevant cases by hand. Unusually, the Ludlow can cast between 6pt and 228pt type on slugs without changes to the machine. Other systems have to be modified with each size change. British Letterpress
If you're interested in helping keep some printing technology alive and not just a piece of history, you can back the project here (there are some nice rewards on offer too).
Tuesday 18th Oct 2011
The Guardian now has an iPad app. Previously if you wanted to read Guardian content on an iPad you could read the website, use the iPhone app or attempt the Digital Edition. I used to subscribe to the Digital Edition, a downloadable PDF of the paper (now with an online viewer) in exactly the same form as it was printed. By the looks of it, it's much improved these days. I cancelled my subscription fairly quickly, because while it was good for reading some articles, seeing things like "continued on page 5" with no hyperlink felt weird, and some of the diagrams in articles had text on them which at the resolution the PDF was created at was unreadable. I complained about one issue like this and was sent a jpeg of the graphic at a higher resolution. Great customer service but it never seemed a scalable or sustainable solution.
So last year the Guardian did a survey of its iPhone (and presumably web) users asking what they'd think of an iPad app, and how much (if anything) they'd be willing to pay for it and/or a subscription. I figured that if they did it well, it could be revolutionary. The iPhone app was (and is) so good it still stands as a reference guide for how to do a content-driven app well. If the iPad app was as good, then it'd be great.
I've used a fair few magazine and news apps for the device and they've all been a bit of a let-down. As it's the first mass-market tablet the iPad presented a new and unfamiliar environment to design apps for. Some went down the fill-it-with-crazy-interaction route, others down the scan-our-printed-edition route, most sort of somewhere in between, but nothing really felt natural to the device. It takes time to learn about the new medium rather than simply adapting what went before.
I think the Guardian app is mostly there. There are a few things that I think 'hmm' at (well one thing, the issues list), but it does what it's designed for and is a pleasure to use. The design principles for the app (from this article by the project lead, Jonathon Moore) are beautifully focussed and simple:
These are principles that can and should apply to the design of pretty much everything.
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It struck me that in all reviews of apps like these, much attention is given to the surface features of the software, but the content is largely ignored. It's typical feature-itis, and ignores the user's experience of a thing. The entire reason for someone using this app is to read the Guardian, and let's be fair, reading a printed broadsheet (or even a Berliner) in almost any situation is rarely a comfortable experience. But you put up with it, it's worth it for the content, and after a while the medium of crumpled, flapping paper tends to fade away. To do the same (or better) in an app requires a deep understanding of what the content is and how people regard it.
"But to me it was always about how to capture the essence of the print experience and translate that into forms and behaviours that felt right on the iPad." Mark Porter
I know from experience of developing websites that content is often regarded as the 'word filler', viewed as the own-brand mystery sauce to be poured into the shell of the app, not really to be considered as an aspect of the design itself. This is a massive mistake.
Browsing the printed Guardian you see articles from a broad range of subjects, short snippets of fact here and there, and huge page-spanning features and editorials. Newspapers are varied. News websites, even the Guardian's, are rather more uniform. The pressures of news-now, of getting the story 'up there' before anyone else changes the style and format of journalism. There seems to be less room for editorial and analysis - a story is happening now, and this is how it is, …but what does it mean? Most of that type of content remains in the printed paper.
"When we look at the pages of a printed newspaper we take in a range of stories at once. Some are big, some small; some are obviously more important than others. The decisions about space, position and treatment are the product of the experience and values of the editors, and when you buy a printed newspaper you're not just buying the words and pictures, you're also buying those values and judgments." Mark Porter
Bringing that to an app requires a solid understanding of how it works in the paper - how to signal to the reader the relative importance and scale of an article. Is it news reporting? Is it opinion? Is it editorial? Analysis? In any paper it's the typography and layout of the page that gives you this information.
"I worked closely with Barry Ainslie, our Art director for Sport, to define a range of typeface styles that suited our headlines from print. We defined the minimum required and slowly built them out as the app developed. It's the first time we've used our (extensive) range of fonts to such effect in any of our digital products." Andy Brockie
That extensive range of fonts is the Guardian's own typeface, Guardian Egyptian by Christian Schwartz. It has over 200 fonts.
It's quite clear from reading the app that a great deal of thought and effort has gone into the typography, making it work perfectly on the iPad (which isn't a perfect medium for great typography in itself). Looking through the images detailing the design process shows just how many iterations of type and layout were tried. I must admit to feeling a bit envious of them to have such time and resources to spend on it.
The details of the typography are often subtle - body text is perfectly readable, sidebars with links to related articles don't intrude, colours are carefully used to illuminate interactive elements and bring variety to front pages, and headline styles change depending on the type of article. Most articles get a regular weight headline, so that when you get to one with a lighter weight, you know it's a different kind of content, comment, editorial, obituaries and so on. Features and very long articles get a big screen-filling photo with text overlaid on it, with the article starting below.
It all creates a beautiful effect, inviting you into the content, and letting you read it without intrusion or obstruction.
The treatment of adverts is interesting, and welcome. They do exist in the app, but are restricted to interstitials and section front pages. So by design, while reading an article you don't see adverts. By design! No hacks, no reformatters, no plugins, no extra services, this is how the content is presented, by the Guardian. Only a few other news apps (like the Channel 4 News one) do anything similar.
The iPad is a determinedly multifunctional thing, but it relies on the two universal gestures we can do with our fingers, the stroke and the tap. Stroke vertically to scroll, horizontally to swipe. Stroke with more than one finger - more functions. Tap to select, to activate things and to type. Tap and hold for a contextual functions. But how to design and build an app that responds to these things in a natural way? Apple apps provide clues, but obviously didn't solve all the problems - there never was an Apple app with loads of content that updates frequently, unless you count the browser itself. But that web/app debate is a whole other kettle of worms, and I'm not going there.
The Guardian app solves this simply, in a way that we've come to learn feels natural for the device. There are very few interactions possible; Text scrolls vertically, and you swipe sideways to change articles or sections. You can tap on links to other articles and sections. There are a couple of settings and you can share some articles, but that's it. Which leads to:
What's interesting is what's missing. There's no double-tap to expand the text. You can't tap and hold to select (and copy) text. Many articles can't be shared - only the ones that are also on the website can be. There's no pinch zoom. Navigation is pared-down to just a few common functions and links.
There's no option to have larger text sizes, accessibility support (such as VoiceOver) is OK, but fails on the front pages (where it reads out the ID for that type of headline).
Some of these things could certainly be added, and the accessibility could be improved, but I know from experience that the desire to get all features into the shipped product usually leads to the product not shipping at all. This is version one of an exceptionally solid app, and I'm glad they've polished it as they have. They may not be able to do everything, but what they've done is very well done.
And this leads nicely onto the features the app does have. I strongly suspect it's aimed at readers of the paper who are looking for something more convenient than the print edition but find the website content lacking and maybe the small form-factor of the phone apps constraining, i.e., commuters. Commuters on trains, specifically. Phone signal on trains is notoriously variable, and train operators often charge stupid money for Wi-Fi, even when it works, so the Guardian app pre-downloads its content in the background in the very, very early morning.
But aha, you say, what if something newsworthy happens at 7AM? The app is out of date! Martin Belam nails it:
"To me, that is like arguing that there is no point the BBC broadcasting the Today programme or putting Newsnight on iPlayer, because the news might be "out of date" the instant the programme is finished." Martin Belam
To my mind that's where newspapers still have a unique and valuable offering. You can get live feeds of news from multiple sources, but it's newspapers, books and documentaries that (on their different timescales) tie the stories together and provide context and meaning. As a result it actually doesn't matter if a newspaper is a little out of date, provided the journalists have done their jobs properly.
I suspect that the majority of the app's users want a better, more convenient newspaper, not a prettier newsfeed. It sounds like that's what the Guardian thinks they want, too. I know I do.
Printed newspapers offer very simple user journeys. There are articles on pages, and the paper is divided into broad subject categories, as sections, and you simply flip through them, stopping to read whatever catches your eye. The app uses the same scheme, but also creates a front page for each section. The design of a front page like this isn't a trivial matter, and it's particularly interesting the technology the Guardian uses to build these from the content of the newspaper automatically. When I read about it I was amazed at what they'd done.
"This was to be the world's most beautiful, elegant, interpretation of the print experience - with a few digital twists. It was also to be tied intelligently into our print production systems. That was big task – a task that we underestimated. From get-go." Jonathon Moore
That's an enormous task, and I bet immensely satisfying to work on. Looking again at the design evolution Andy Brockie presents, I wonder how the system works out where to put everything. I'm slightly relieved that there is some human input to fine tune things, because if all of that was automatically generated we'd better get ready for welcoming our new robotic overlords.
"Unlike the iPhone and Android apps, which are built on feeds from the website, this one actually recycles the already-formatted newspaper pages. A script analyses the InDesign files from the printed paper and uses various parameters (page number, physical area and position that a story occupies, headline size, image size etc) to assign a value to the story. The content is then automatically rebuilt according to those values in a new InDesign template for the app." Mark Porter
And then from InDesign to HTML. Automagically. That's the future right there.
The simplicity and straightforwardness of the Guardian app is (like its iPhone version before it) going to stand for quite a while as the acme of how these things should be done. It's also a good reminder that simplicity is actually quite hard.
Much has been said (by oh so many people) claiming that 'print is dead' and that newspapers are whipping a dead horse of a business model. If you look at the distribution of printed newspapers people pay for with money, vs. the assumed-free access to news on websites, you'd be right. There's more to the story than that though. As I pointed out, there's a special type of content that newspapers have, and despite everything, not much of that content is actually available online. The few newspapers that have made a success of paywalls, such as the Financial Times, do put their analytical and editorial content online, and it shows that plenty of people are willing to pay for it.
For a more general audience the received wisdom has been that people are highly resistant to paying for news, and the Guardian's own survey showed that many people are. However, not all are, and many people (I include myself in this) actually want to if it means getting a higher quality product. I can't put it better than Martin Belam, again:
"It strikes me that it is considered quite normal for car manufacturers to have a range of products that are designed and priced to suit different sectors of the market. When a news provider does it, from some sections of the web community there is an almost instant knee-jerk reaction that this proves news organisations "don't get" digital.
Just because you can have an always on app that crams in updates and breathlessly fast breaking news from live blogs, doesn't necessarily mean that you have to." Martin Belam
There's no doubt that the business models of delivering news to people are changing, but it's quite clear that people still want news, and people still want journalism. I doubt the constantly-updating feeds of largely analysis-free news updates will provide much of a business model to anyone (except in aggregate) but actual journalism, that is most definitely worth something. Whether this app is what nails it we don't know yet, but I think it's got a damn good chance at making that breakthrough.


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A typical "you get what you pay for" hotel. A fine location close to London Euston train station, regents park as well as the pubs of Camden Town.
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In common with most small family hotels that are converted houses, the accommodations where somewhat compact, the shower cubicle in particular, but everything I needed was provded and worked well. The breakfast was fantastic and much better than I expected from this price range. However the most impressive aspect of my stay was the people who run the hotel. Steve, Karen and their family were absolute stars, who could not have made me more welcome. The next time I visit Blackpool the Marsden will be my top choice for friendly service and value for money.
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The stay at The Sandalwood was a pleasant surprise, and I am sure to visit again. It was close enough to the Blackpool town centre and a pleasant walk along the water. Margaret and Pete were very attentive to our few needs and the breakfast was cooked to order. No complaints at all.
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