life, lemons and lemonade

When life serves you lemons make lemonade goes the saying and these days life does taste like home made lemonade. Some times overly sour, sometimes overly sweet. On occasion sour but with the grains of sugar crunchy between your teeth. Some things are going extremely well, others very badly and in some cases I have no clue what is going on. Days merge into nights, weeks change and suddenly it’s the end of February and I’m wondering where two months of my life have gone and what have I done with them. Existential questions aside, everything since the 6th of Jan when I went back to work seems like a blur. Very stressful, too much work, too many variables. Normally I thrive…...

chicken al’expiration date

Coming home tonight the last thing I wanted to do was cook and it was something I was dreading all the way home. I had the sort of day where a server goes down at 17.10, twenty minutes before the end of the day. Anyway I could not avoid the task as I had accidentally defrosted chicken breasts for enchiladas that never happened and had to be used else I would have to throw it out. So I cooked. Along with the chicken I also had peppers, chorizo, tomatoes and cheese that would expire, also mostly…...

working from home vs working at the office

Today I took the opportunity to work from home, something that I don’t do very often, but absolutely had to be done in order to make some significant progress in what I am currently working on. Like every other time I do this, I woke up early, had my morning coffee ritual and then started working. Since then I managed to zone out and focus at the huge task list at hand without significant interruptions. I finished at 5.30 this afternoon, having probably done about twice the amount of work…...

thoughts on paid for content

Over the last few weeks I have been thinking a lot about paying for content. When in November Murdoch announced that he was planning to block access to his publications via google I laughed out loud a little. His argument at the time was “The people who simply just pick up everything and run with it – steal our stories, we say they steal…...

your personal site, a mirror to your soul

“A person’s website or blog is a window to their soul” as the web 2.0 proverb says. For people like me who build sites for a living it might occasionally become hard to get in touch with our soul, especially when we see web building1 as something to be sold for money. /shudder An old Greek proverb says “Show me your web home and I will tell you who you are”. Well it might actually say “your friend”, but if you are in our field shouldn’t…...