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
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Guest Lecture About Blogging at UCLan
I had the occasion to guest lecture to Computer Science students at the University of Central Lancashire about the importance of blogging.
The main focus of the lecture was the importance of blogging for computer scientists for their future career. I briefly touched the history of the modern internet and blogging, mentioned the difficulty of making money with blogs online before pointing out the importance of a blog for programmers, developers and designers.
I decided not to release the podcast but publish a slightly more in-depth entry instead
Oops, He Does It Again
Blog in Maintenance Mode. At least until the next two three to five days of my life will have been focused on hacking this template, getting rid of inline styling and make it look like I want.
With some CSS3 and more stuff you can’t see in your browser. Obviously IE6 and older will not be supported.
To A Better 2009
Here’s hope for a better 2009.
Charity Engagement: New Job Taken at Emmaus Preston
After a long period of deliberation and I have taken a new job and joined Emmaus Preston.
Careful thoughts have been put in to an eventual future online but I can think of many reasons why not to go into ework. One of them being the desire of making a difference and working with people, homeless people. Hoping to help them rediscover the values of life, the real values of life and not some daily online wankery about whose service is most valuable and what acquisition was justified or not.
The online world is a nice scene and one I’ve enjoyed for a long time, but I think there are many more important things in life than discussing pixel anality, although I finally found use for a heavily customized remake from Darren Hoyt’s Mimbo theme.
I will continue to follow the development of online applications and annoy my colleagues with my best friend, friend, but for now my task lays somewhere else. Obviously, me being myself, I will be the biggest online nerd within the Emmaus UK mouvement and Emmaus Preston will be present on the the usual platforms. And we will blog à gogo.
The Emmaus Preston Superstore opening is on Saturday 20th September 2008 and will be live broadcasted on Ustream.
If you’re local, why not join the Emmaus Preston Fantasy Football League and win some Emmaus Gift Vouchers?
Challenge
I started a challenge with myself… and the world. It’s about blogging. I’m returning.
The challenge is simple: make a blog popular (subjectively), without whoring the blog out in comments or on traffic platforms. Just rely on the ability to write passionately, opinionatedly and know some keyword stuff SEO have a popular topic.
Both blogs enter an already overcrowded area and target a passionate and active community, which actually makes things harder, but could also be an advantage.
The topics are Mac/Apple and Manchester United (English football/soccer team).
In one month I will report here about the first weeks and how stats have grown (or not).
Both URLs will not be used in comments on more than 2 other blogs each.
Update: Life has come in between the challenge and the reality. I still believe in the concept and several blogs are in the planning. One more actually: Bloggers Turn Me On, a return to the good ol’ (JOAB) times, just a little more high profile and less obligatory as then. See you soon in a blog coming to a browser on your monitor.
One rule of thumb:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.
Frak, I’m Back!
I found time. Time to enjoy a day off. And get this done.
It’s Franky, b*tches. I’m back.
