WordPress vs. Bloat. Introducing Habari.

18 comments Filed in Geekery Tagged with •• January 10th, 2010

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. Read more

On Showing and Sharing Early

0 comments Filed in Advice•Tumbling Tagged with •• January 9th, 2010

More bloggers should listen to this advice. Starting early and daily being confronted with the minor issues, or work still to be done at a site, is a great way to make sure you actually do actively work at your project and constantly improve.

In the process of making the film, we reviewed the material every day. Now, this is counter-intuitive for a lot of people. […]

Suppose you come in, and you’ve got to put together animation or drawings and show it to a famous, world-class animator. Well, you don’t want to show some thing which is weak or poor. So you want to hold off until you get it to be right.

The trick is actually to stop that behav ior. We show it every day—when it’s incomplete. If everybody does it, every day, then you get over the embarrassment. And when you get over the embarrass­ment, you’re more creative.

It’s not obvious to people, but starting down that path helped every thing that we did. Show it in its incomplete form. There’s another advantage to that. When you’re done… you’re done.

Pixar president Ed Catmull, in a speech to Stanford’s business school.

Do You Really Need Windows on Mac?

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with •• January 8th, 2010

Apparently I am not alone not being interested installing Windows (7) on my MacBook:

But apparently, that’s unusual, and most Mac owners in the world not only use Windows, they need Windows and, more than any other version, they absolutely must have Windows 7, so Apple’s missed deadline is nothing short of scandalous.

True? Because if that’s not true, all of that breathless reporting over the weekend about missed deadlines and Apple’s ‘fears’ would prove a tad silly, wouldn’t it?

Actually, I have had one issue since switching to the Mac; my friends don’t use iChat. They’re stuck with Skype or — horror of horrors –Windows Live Messenger for video conferencing and collaboration. I pity them. It’s the one thing I wish Apple would release for Windows. The world would be a better place then, I’m sure.

At some point, I think after 6 months on Mac, I stopped caring about Windows. Unless I really need to work in MS Access for a client, I will not install Windows and if, Windows XP has a much smaller footprint.

On Hiring People; Making People Feeling Wanted

0 comments Filed in Real Life•Tumbling Tagged with ••• January 4th, 2010

Rands explains the importance of making the desired candidate feel wanted. Both to make sure the candidates becomes the ‘new hire’ but also because every great hire is a new award for your own career:

If you’re hiring well, you’re hiring people not just for this job, but for your career. These are the people who, for better or worse, will explain to others what it is like to work with you. They’ll explain your quirks, your weaknesses, and your strengths. When they eventually leave the group, they’re taking your reputation with them. You may never talk to them again, but they’ll continue to talk and my question is: what stories are they going to tell?

One of the most important things to make this double-edged sword highly successful is to assure that the employees still feels wanted after joining; the hire is an important pilar of the department.
How long does it take you to settle in a new job? That period is arguably even more important than the actual ‘chase’; it’s when the new hire grows roots.

If You Thought Keeping Up With All Your Profiles Was Hard…

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with •••• January 4th, 2010

Seesmic has acquired Ping.fm and will soon offer the option to update to 50 networks at once. In times where people struggle to properly maintain 3 profiles: Facebook, Twitter and a blog.

Your friends are not all in one social network, but we want to help you stay in touch with them anytime and from any device. That is Seesmic’s vision and to deliver this faster, we have acquired Ping.fm. You can now update 50 social networks using Seesmic+Ping.fm from email, chat, sms, Blackberry, Android, web, Windows, OSX and much more soon.

So much for less noise in 2010.

2009, A Year in Movies and Music

2 comments Filed in Music Tagged with •••••• January 3rd, 2010

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. Read more

The Quest for Simplicity

1 comment Filed in General Tagged with •• January 2nd, 2010

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. Read more

Blog Entries We Do Not Want To See in 2010

0 comments Filed in Writings Elsewhere Tagged with ••• January 2nd, 2010

Blogging has matured, or almost matured. 2010 is the year we have to refocus on quality content instead of linkbait: Blog entries we do not want to see in 2010.

Katy Hubert Would Make A Great Weather Woman

0 comments Filed in Tumbling Tagged with •••• December 28th, 2009

Morgan Stanley’s Katy Huberty’s predictions for the stock value of Apple shares read like listening to the weather report. She says there’s one chance in 4 Apple stock could pass $325/share and range between $325 and $435, but if the Google Android platform takes off, Apple shares might as well drop as low as $150.

In a more common and closer to home situation: the weather for tomorrow will be dry, but if our most optimistic dreams don’t become reality it will rain.

Do Bloggers Need an Opinion on Everything?

1 comment Filed in Advice•Blogging Politics Tagged with • December 28th, 2009

Everyone is entitled to my opinion by Pink_fish13This 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. Read more

Previous entries
More recent entries

Copyright © iFranky – Sue me because my parents called me Franky
I have Ataraxia. Sue me because my parents called me Franky.

Theme hacked together myself
Powered by hammering on a MacBook Pro