I’ve moved back to my original setup and blogging engine. Tumblr just isn’t working out for me right now.
A few doodads I wouldn’t mind getting for Xmas (or you can donate if that’s your thing).
(via marco)
I had to turn off all the social static, it was getting deafening.
My only wish is that they improve Exchange integration - that assuming we’ll get the usual performance tune-ups (which ought to take precedence).
The iPadification and Twitterization of the Internet marches on, and people want e-mail to be the next casualty.
I, however, find it unbearable that it currently only works with Gmail and can’t understand folders, so I hope they come to their senses soon - otherwise it’s just a curiosity.
Snapback
Most of this year’s blog posts are back online (I skipped a few related to coding and books, which are harder to upload automatically), so RSS readers should notice a fair amount of, er… content coming their way.
It’s all clearly tagged with the original post date, so there should be no confusion.
Work continues on re-publishing HOWTOs and suchlike (as well as one draft post I’m committed to pushing out within a couple of days), but I’ve been running silent for a good stretch of my time, switching off social nuisances and whatnot, getting interesting stuff done, and making sure I get plenty of rest throughout.
Nevertheless, I should point out that in the meantime my first month at SAPO has come and gone, and I’m loving it - my team is great, the morale and tech know-how are overwhelmingly satisfying, and it’s all been like a sort of homecoming, although of course I still don’t know everyone.
For a change, work is plenty fun (even if it’s a mite stressful to keep all the balls in the air at the same time) and despite all the changes, It’s great to realize that all I’m really missing are the people I used to work with.
Wish you were here, guys.
The project pages from the old Wiki, now hosted on Google Sites.
Which, I must say, is amazingly good as a WYSIWYG Wiki - the only reason it’s taking me this long to re-publish some of the most popular content is that the WYSIWYG editor sometimes gets in the way (and, of course, that the most popular content needs revising to begin with - I’m starting with the easy stuff).
marco adds, among many other excellent insights:
Even geeks (like us) have their limits of reasonability. At some point, we often decide that what we’ve been doing or what we think we should enjoy just isn’t worthwhile.
Both the original piece and Marco’s view make for very good reading, but I think the bit above neatly summarizes why I stopped managing my own infrastructure.
In my case, it freed up enough time already to thoroughly relax (as much as possible, alas), read a bunch of books, and, since last week, delve into the nuts and bolts of a few things I’ve always wanted to tackle (and a couple I had no idea I’d be doing on this day and age).
(via marco)
