It’s been a while since I last posted here, hasn’t it? Not that my life has been entirely uneventful; it’s just not always worth blogging about. There’s been a wedding (my brother got married, woohoo for him!), I changed my diet and adapted a fitness regime (go me!) and I’ve had some other fun experiences. […]
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Most of the time, when I start a blog post with a question it’s because I think I know the answer. But not this time. Today I asked myself that question again, after seeing some people share their presentations online. Sharing is nice, of course. But when you share your presentation online, there’s one big
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The economy is a funny thing. I should buy locally, to support the local economy. Yet the same rules of economics make me shop for technology elsewhere. Because the price is right abroad, especially when buying video games. With the arrival of the Xbox One the local (web)shops have increased the price of a single
Change is inevitable, because the only thing which never changes is events in the past. So I, Too am making changes, long overdue adjustments. For a better future and a better now. Maybe I’ll someday share what those changes are when and if the desired results gave been set in stone, instead of wishfull thinking.
“But they are volunteers.” This sentence is often used, often to excuse the actions (or lack of actions) of someone volunteering for something. I will admit that you can’t keep volunteers to the same standards as a paid employee of an organization or a company. Everyone (hopefully) understands that there is a limit to how
Professionalism & Volunteers, not mutually exclusive. Read More »
For a very long time, I avoided the command line of Linux like a plague. Sure, I’d mess around with Ubuntu occasionaly. But only in desktop mode. SSH access? I’ll just stick to FTP instead, that’s far less complex! Until last year I told myself using the command line was “too hard” and “not worth
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Today, a collegue of mine told me how a ‘rant’ about a big IT company he made on Linkedin, mysteriously vanished after he refused to take the post down. This after company first called him (!) and ordered him to take it down. Yay for free speech!! Of course I could blog about how disturbing
Put your “opinion” where you own it. Read More »
More than a year ago, I launched Toralkodocs.net, a website for “commercial” Joomla documentation. After some deliberating I’ve decided to pull the plug on Toralkodocs when the hosting is due for renewal, in June. The goal of Toralkodocs.net was to build a Joomla documentation site, which would be updates frequently. But due to a lack
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My company is currently making some changes to the way we work. You can always make improvements somewhere. For us, one of the area where we wanted to make changes was the automating of our hosting & domains billing / administration. Company-wide we’re using OpenERP which is a good product, but for our Hosting &
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