“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
(Martin Luther King Jr.)
Goddamn This Dusty Room, All My Life I’ve Been Dreamin’ of Something
Love. Hate. The Future Belongs to…
As life moves on and the years start adding up, people tend to sit down and reflect more. This is probably still my weakest point, I like moving forward too much to really sit down. Nevertheless I have learned to not always immediately react on things anymore, sometimes I even know when to shut up. Occasionally I still fail at the latter.
Generally though, I tend to live a quiet background life all while being the dynamic me people know. While trying to still be prolific I really enjoy living in the shadows. It is nice there, not too hot nor too bright.
Believe me when I say that I do know how it feels to live in the spotlights and the three people who have followed this blog since years do know that I do not shun these spotlights either. But I’m getting old and people change.
Suffice to say that I was very surprised today to find myself in the crossfire or rather the line of fire from someone I do not know. In the middle of a very hostile and spiteful attack.
Content Baby. Content, Yes
Now more than 25 years ago I first discovered the Internet. Soon it would start to take a main role in my life. I was only a kid. But from the first day I discovered the Internet I knew this was my thing. Never had I dreamed I would be able to make a living from the online world but today I realise it was an unknown dream.
A dream which became reality.
As a kid I have always been a reader. I would read more than 100 pages per day already when I was only 7 years young. I loved my parents’ Winkler Prins. On rainy days you could find me in my room, on bed with most of the time at least six tomes around me. I was a knowledge leech as kid already. My parents had a Wikipedia without online connection.
I was a reader with an unsatisfied hunger for knowledge. My life seemed complete.
WordPress vs. Bloat. Introducing Habari.
I have been using WordPress for around 4 years now and all in all it has been a fun ride but time has come for a change in my quest to simplify life, to refocus on blogging.
Focus on content and not how great and powerful a platform is or how I can play with the header image in every post. Refocus on content. Cut out the bloat. I love WordPress but the platform, a very powerful option which everyone should consider in their quest to run a blog, has grown beyond my personal needs.
What I want here for iFranky is a blog; I don’t need a full-blown CMS.
2009, A Year in Movies and Music
Every year people excel in making new resolutions for the next year and outperform themselves breaking every single resolution even faster than the year before. The blogosphere is swamped with resolution posts and year review entries.
If one is needed, it is the ultimate proof that people will never change and no year will bring change to this. What will the next year bring us? The same as last year and you will still complain about the taxes you have to pay. The government will continue to annoy you and of course you will not consider if you could do better when being responsible and deciding for millions but at least there’s a football World Cup in South Africa this year.
I have given up on resolutions and symbolic, commercially abused dates. I will not stop smoking and I know that the world will not be saved by some superhero politician. Instead I have ambitions, personal and life ambitions and they are high. Very high.
For one the biggest hope is that I will be able to abuse all the potential I think having and I certainly do hope my bosses will challenge me enough to release this potential. But this entry is about last year’s movies and music.
The Quest for Simplicity
I love simple things. No matter too complicated will scare me or make me run away, at least not when it’s a real challenge I believe in. Challenges are awesome and the best way to win win a challenge is to simplify it as much as possible. It’s what I loved about mathematics. Back in the day when I had 9 hours of math every week at school.
Do Bloggers Need An Opinion About Everything and When Does Ranting Turn into a Trainwreck?
This topic has been brewing for a long time and could easily turn into a never ending rant but I will try to resist.
Do bloggers need to have an opinion on everything and can being opinionated turn against you?
Of course this entry is nothing more than just another opinionated piece, a rant.It is time that bloggers use their grey mass a little and look in the mirror before ridiculing themselves. Being opinionated is easy but being opinionated AND making sense is a different game all together.
Especially because blogging has to be opinionated it becomes a very thin line to walk.
