November 12, 2007

Why am I blogging?

Christian Decker wrote this in the early morning:
This blog has been live for the last 2 years (it’s actually turning 2 next week) and I’ve been more or less active, posting new articles, trying to keep up with new events and trends and sometimes sprinkling in some personal posts. The blog has had it’s up and downs and sometimes I was successful with my publishings, especially in the more technical corner: And I think I can be pretty proud of most of them. Then again others weren’t as successful as I thought they might be… The problem is that after two years I’m starting to ask myself what the point in this is, take it as a mid life crisis for bloggers, blogging takes a lot of time, especially when you focus on technical articles and tutorials like I prefer to do, and I don’t have that time anymore. Maybe it will get better after the current semester, but the question is do I really want to go on and blog? Blogging has become some sort of obbligation, something I have to force myself into, it’s supposed to be fun, but as it is right now it isn’t. It’s more of a work.

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November 6, 2007

How stupid am I supposed to be?

Christian Decker wrote this late at night:

Seriously, how stupid do you think people are? I got this email today and I couldn’t resist to write a little rant about it here:

You have received an invitation from Tom Mazzulla to join an exclusive beta test for a new web entertainment project that is preparing to launch across North America: Moola.com.
Note from Sender:
Note From Moola:
Imagine getting your own shot in the hot seat of a super-jackpot game show, and being able to play anytime, for free, to try to win the kind of money you’ve only seen others win on television. That is Moola: Seriously rewarding, very exciting, and completely free to play (this project is supported entirely by advertisers).
Don’t miss out on your opportunity to win millions in the web’s first AdverTournament!

Dear Tom Mazzulla, whoever you are, I personally consider this spam, as it was sent unsolicitedly, from a person I don’t know. It is a really bad practice to write invitations for some phony new Services, even worse with the promise that you can “win huge amounts of money” and it won’t do any good for your service to do so, except maybe a lot of negative press from bloggers and other annoyed addressees of your “Invitation”…

Anyone else got one of these?

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New iGoogle Themes

Christian Decker wrote this in the late afternoon:

I’ve been a regular iGoogle user for the last year and a half and the themes they added were a nice touch, but it gets even better: they have now released 5 more themes for you to try.

It’s a bit tricky to add them but not impossible:

All you have to do is go to iGoogle and type one of the following in the address bar: javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/planets.xml’); javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/autumns.xml’); javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/hongkong.xml’); javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/jr.xml’); javascript:_dlsetp(’preview_skin=skins/tiger.xml’); ..and then choose “Select a Theme For This Tab” and click on “Save”, but don’t select any theme.

[via Mashable]

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