iFranky

NADD already has been the subject on this blog, thank to Rands, but last days I have noticed that my case is getting worse again. Courtesy of getting to know the Mac platform better, worrying less about dating and way too many things going on right now, I must admit that my focus seems to come back.

What proves this? My NADD. The numbers of projects I have been taking on over the last 2 weeks has significantly grown again, with the usual pressure of having taken on way too much already. And still I usually manage to find some time to discover new stuff.
Tell me what’s on your tray, screen right now. And what else goes through your mind?

This is my palette right at the moment:

• As usually music is playing. Stalk me at last.fm. I even manage it to skip tracks, I don’t like, in Party Shuffle ¹.
• Both Mail and NetNewsWire ² are constantly open and update regularly. I love to keep both read and answered if needed. I like it clean, empty.
• The usual tabs (around 7) are open in Safari and checked regularly ³.
• Coda has become a part of my daily after work workflow. In Coda, 2 projects: a WP design and Chyrp. Both call for Photoshop with 2 different mockups.
• Today I have been playing with Tablecloth and Blueprint.
• Several IRC rooms open in Colloquy.
• Restricted IM profile in Adium and obviously Twitterific.

Other thoughts occupying me right at the moment are the day job and the project we recently started plus two major annoyances we bumped in to at work last 10 days. Those 3 factors actually already large enough to occupy most people and make them look forward to a relaxed evening in front of the tube.

But in the evening, when arriving home, there’s the bane of the online presence calling me. The inconvenience about being in the active online back end world, wanting to stay up to date? It’s not the high amount of hours or the double shift, it’s the desire of always wanting to try out the newest stuff. New software, new online platforms and applications even ⁴. It’s the thrill to learn new stuff.

And then there’s the dating thing and upcoming V-Day. I have been invited already. I haven’t RSVP’ed yet.

Right now, I must take care of my laundry though and then spend an hour cleaning. I think. If the internet doesn’t call me back. Or new entries tumbled in my feed reader.
Luckily I have no kids, that would just dry me insane!

I do not visit social networks anymore. I have left the sphere around problogging and both were a relieve. I also have buried some other ongoing annoyances from last 2 years: exes and the trainwreck BlogExplosion.

1. Yes, I ditched my iTunes hate. No WMP on Mac. [↩]
2. Feed reader [↩]
3. I’m a sucker for Valleywag updates [↩]
4. I mostly ditched testing out new webapps. [↩]

I’m not proposing that the long-form blog is dead in the water. Just that it will reach a point where it’s frequently punctuated with the sort of content currently restricted to tumblelogs. We’re going to see a sort of amalgamation of the two becoming commonplace. With the long, thought out posts punctuated with other “short” content.

Nostrich.net numblr.nostrich.net.

Exactly what I intend to do here: combine a regular blog with a tumblelog.

If you change domain with your blog, but decided to stick to the same database ¹, probably you will have to update several URLs in your entries.

I’m a lazy person and everything which can be done automatically, will be be automated. Replacing links or words in your WordPress database table is a really simple act. Of course, you should first backup your database ².

Open your CPanel or Plesk backend and move to the Database —> phpMyAdmin area. Select your database here and move to wp_posts

The syntax to replace strings/data/words/whatevah in your database is simple:

update tablename set field = replace(field,'search_for_this','replace_with_this');

In my case I had to change the URL from serialrecidivism.com; to ifranky.com/amifamousnow, the string looked as this:

update wp_posts set post_content = replace(post_content,'http://serialrecidivism.com','http://ifranky.com/amifamousnow');

go, phpMyAdmin will now tell you how many strings have been changed and you can admire how all your links are supposed to work again, intra-entry.

Congratulations, after some Googling, you now have become a MYSQL authority! ³

1. You have imported your database at your new hoster, or just changed all while staying with the same hoster [↩]
2. Lazy people obviously use this trick [↩]
3. Yeah, right [↩]

I have been thinking a long time about the blogging thing. It all started out as a fun time waster and then soon took other dimensions

• A bunch of housewives enjoying the site and commenting
• A gaggle of whiny whores commenting, mostly loving flames
• In the background I discovered several awesome people and made one error. The most unpublished story.
• Paid blogging gigs, on blogging, design, video tutorials and some more
• URL hopping and several domain sales
• Drama, backstabbing and more drama
• Some awesome totally personal and private entries

Most of all, this, and the other blogs, are characterized with a really low level of quality content, not to say there’s no quality at all. I’ve tried several things: sarcasm, irony¹, flames², my so loved geekery and then some utter nonsense lately.

Right now, I can not say that I want to focus on one topic, not at all. I want to tumblelog, spam your feedreader with links to all over the place and hopefully even occasionally craft a great entry.

Actually, I want to start creating quality again and maybe some day pick up the problogging thing again.
Right now I still have several domains, some known ones and other ones unknown, but I have no idea how to spread the content, hence why I resorted to the good old fashioned AIFN. I will try to pick up a blogging rhythm again over the next days, week, but don’t hold your breath if you’re hoping to read many personal entries. Not here or at any other site you might have squatted³.

I do know that no one reads this site right now and I can’t say I’m really bothered by this. I like my little quiet garden and will just blog as I feel like.

Until I have a little more clue again.

And the design? I love the sarcasm in it and might keep it up a little longer⁴.

1. Growing popularity made me drop those styles [↩]
2. They were fun, but actually I’m a really good person [↩]
3. I also won’t be twittering from the blog anymore, actually I should delete all those stupid tweets [↩]
4. Although I want to add many new details to the design, maybe even a footer block [↩]

Microsoft made a hostile takeover bid for Yahoo. The BBC¹ describes the situation best:

If Yahoo agrees to the deal with Microsoft, it will be a shotgun marriage, but it will be Google holding the shotgun.

This is in the search area, in every other area the combination might call Google back to reality. Looking forward to what follows [via Cameron.io]

1. Business editor Tim Weber [↩]