Dec 08 2008
visio is for the unworthy and inadequate
People often need to create network diagrams. Some server rooms are, of course, harder than others. Some software even claims to make it easy. I tend to work more directly with graphics primitives myself.
But all of these use computers — the very tools that got us into this mess. Karin Dalziel decided to take the opposite approach: raise the napkin scribble to new heights of sophistication. It works very nicely in a blog post too. It’ll be quite a while before Visio’s that good.
Painting: “A painting of my home network (in progress)” by Karin Dalziel, CC by 2.0. Medium: uh, water colour, acrylic, sharpie …
