Hmm

.. let me see

Perhaps I should now focus more on my actual job.

Yep, my semi-annual review is coming up. So let's pretend again for the next few weeks.

A new beginning

.. a new sound

Better put: a new site. In the past weeks I have completely rebuilt and restructured my website. I considered that an overhaul would be appropriate after about two years of service. Especially since I pretend to be a web designer.

Now I have a new look and feel for the site it is time to start woking on the content. The number of pages and the quality of the content on those pages are limited. As with most web projects the content comes last. (I know, I know, this is absolutely wrong, I know, I know, I know.) Although I had designed the structure of the site beforehand I did not have all the parts filled with content yet.

So my task immediately ahead is to write some good quality content and get it on my site in the next couple of weeks.

I have ideas enough:

• Some articles on web standards.
• Technical background of self.
• Samples of html, css and JavaScript.
• etc. etc.

All worked out within my new design, interlinked and linked out towards additional resources. Just to make it all extra search engine friendly.

Write, write, write!

Storm in a glass of water

.. and the ship is still sinking

Sometimes you find yourself in projects that drag on and on and on and on. And you find that the only who really cares about the project is you. All the other project members have found other priorities and seem happy with that. Or they just have moved themselves off the team after never really having been part of it.

When projects drag on without any real progress or a prospect of ever finishing then the moment comes that you think: "why bother? The world's full of beautiful bunnies and flowers .." Your are so near the end and still you feel like giving up on the whole show and forget about even starting.

That's when it happens! Some dormant team members, long presumed dead, at best MIA or AWOL, re-emerge. The zombies wake up! They start screaming outrage that things are not what they should be and that it is a terrible outrage that someone (= you) has just done all sorts of things to their baby. The product that is now there is not like they wanted it, like they had in their minds and not as described in all these secret documents hidden away in a very accessible share on a server amongst 65,301 other documents.

How can you be so stupid! How can you be so ignorant! How can you be such a pathetic nitwit!

When the first dust has settled and you have shown almost inhuman patience, then the time comes when you sit down and have a look at what the problem really is. As it turns out some things have been missed. Both in development and in testing. Too bad, you are both so sorry. But it's understandable that they have been missed. The documents describing the correct behavior were kept a secret. Then after spending a few hours of work the problems are resolved.

More time was spent on the outrage then on the solution of a few omissions. On top of that if outrage was needed it should have been pointed at the ones fuming and insulting.

How can they be so stupid! How can they be so ignorant! How can they be such pathetic nitwits!

But it most definitely damages a good working relation. If there ever was any such thing ...

And another one

.. but why bother?

I have just started another blog. But what's the use? I hardly post anything here, so why should I need another one?

Well, there should be plenty of reasons to have another blog. Hundreds, thousands good reasons, millions even. Gazillions, when you really take the time to think about it.

But why bother?

Time flies by

.. and wasting energy

As said I have landed in a new job. Not quite crash landed, but still a bumpy ride with lots of air pockets. Even after landing!

So, in the past months I have been busy with lots and lots of new stuff and doing all sorts of unrelated thingies. Mainly ASP.NET and C#, but also a lot of XHTML and CSS and learning Photoshop the Nike way. (Just do it) Seems at least something has stuck from that era.

More privately I have been and still am building some websites again and working hard on a new version of my own site. Even more privately, I have sold my house and am in the process of wrapping up the purchase of a new house. Meaning, I will have to get a mortgage (please do not spam me on this) and find a moving company.

enough reasons for this blog to be silent for the last period.