Here we go again

.. even more advanced

No Need to Click Here - I'm just claiming my feed at Feedster

So what's next?

Finding new ways to do things.

... and still more ways to mess things up.

And the ways to really make a mess are getting easier and way more effective. You gotta love it. It's called progress.

New technologies and the implementations thereoff emerge almost daily now. It is getting reaaly hard to keep up with them.

If you do not blog, who are you then? Do you exist when you do not blog?

If you have never heard of a podcast, are you worthy to listen to anything at all?

I think we are in the age of running behind.

Retro ...

.. now that's a novel idea

Well not really. But browsing about I cam across this nice T-shirt. It brings back the memories of the good old ZX Spectrum days. 48K of memory and a fiddly tape recorder. So much frustration after carelessly recording over your program!

Ah, such bliss!

Yes, it has been a while ...

but Happy New year!

I have been busy, which is always a good sign, but I will try to update this blog a little bit more regular than once or twice a month. Don't expect a daily update, but a weekly-ish type of schedule. Why not be more specific?

Anyhow, a new year, new chances, new opportunities to make this world a better place, although at the end of the year we may think that things could not have been worse than this year.

OK, stop the pessimism and onto the optimism: here is a nice web thingy coming up: my personally tagged favorites up for grabs!

Also known as Folksonomies. There is already an extensive paper on this subject out there: Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata

Try them and see what interests me. Try it yourself and spread the word.

Now back to my coffee.

Being disconnected ..

.. can be nerve wrecking

When one is away from others and one tries to get into simple contact and that won't work because there is no connection then things can get nerve wrecking. One starts to guess what might have happened and by human nature fear the worst and even more human nature tells one that the worst is also the most probable.

Usually, things are not as bad as they seem at first glance. One should not panic and just breathe easy into the plastic bag to get the hyperventilation to subside. Get a hot cup of coffee and take a moment to be amazed by the items stuck in the vending machine. You probably did not know that these items were for sale anyway and now it's too late!

See that is what I mean: the panic has disappeared.

Anyway, what happened to me? Why this enigmatic entry? I tried to send some email to people who are affected by my previous blog entry. The mail returned without a clear error. Sending a message to my deleted mail address at a former employer eerily returned the same shady error. Were they all fired on the spot?

So, sweat breaks out. Get some coffee and tried again some time later same response. More sweat, more coffee. Even later, another try and the mail went out. Did not bounce. The relief was huge when I saw the read receipts come in. They were still alive.

Eventhough this contact is little more then pinging them it gives a valuable and much appreciated sign of live. Hey people: keep breathing, in - out, in - out, in - out, etc.