2 posts tagged “blogs”

Moving time! ;-)

In case anyone wants to know, I've setup a blog on my own:

http://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/

RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/till

Is very busy lately.

I have nothing to add here. Sometimes I think that I live at the office currently because the current relaunch eats so much time. It's hot stuff too and we are a bit short on project management perspective, but we are getting there. And we all know.

The rest of my free time I currently either sleep or pretty much spent it all on the Metroblog and a few smaller projects. So there. Now you know.

Then shit always happens when you least need it to happen. So for example my Airport Extreme died last week. It's one of two Apple products in my apartment. One is the Extreme and the other one is an iPod. While I like the iPod, I am so not happy with the Extreme.

A note of advice...

1. All In 99% of all cases, Apple products have a limit where there should be none. For example, my Airport Extreme only allows 12 clients to connect. Some might say, "WTF? 12 - that is a lot!", but it really isn't because I've used it in circumstances where far more people needed access.
2. The Airport Extreme does not like downloads. So for example, you download the latest FreeBSD ISO over night - you might need to reboot the Airport in the morning because it froze half way through.
3. The Airport Extreme reserves the right to freeze for whatever reason and whenever.
4. For all changes you apply, the Airport issues a reboot - reminds you of Windows?

So even though Marc is nice enough to get it repaird through Apple press people, I've really had it. I am not sure what I'll do with it when it comes back. In the meantime I purchased another FON router (my 2nd) because it cost only 35 EUR, because I like the FON-idea and because if I stop liking it, I can also install OpenWRTG on it. And little did I know but when you order the router, it has an estimated shipping time of three days, but it shipped in 3!

Once again I also tried to catch up with my feedreader tonight and failed. I did read a few blogs websites, and sometimes, this stuff can crack me up indeed. There are people, who I know - some in person. All they do on there is really write a bunch of bullshit.

Yeah. Bullshit.

Nothing of it is true or sometimes only very little is. For example they claim to do something but they really don't and never did. Funny, ain't it? A lot of it is seasoned with very business-like talk to make them look all knowledgable and interesting. One man, a company. But they should be cooking on the simmer instead.

Most interesting to me is that this kind of insight always comes when you talk to people about it. Like it never occured to me before. But today I just had a conversation about the very same topic with an ex-colleague. Citizen journalism at its best. The best example why blogs are not to be trusted in the corporate world. Because many people lie.

So this means, unless your company is Web 2.0 and/or revolves around blogging in general - it's hard to build a relationship of trust.

In the end this kind of stuff should not really crack one me up. I know. It's evil to enjoy other people's mishaps. Maybe not evil. But what goes around, comes around. But I just had to laugh when I opened the article and read through it. In the end it's actually pretty sad to lie like that and publish it.

Anyway, I unsubscribed.

Finally time to move on with real life. 2007 is looking great!