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In five days, this blog will be 3 years old.
Normally, after a few years of *something* existing it’s time to party. Perhaps a re-design, re-purpose or simple “thank you” to all those who have followed the ups and downs and still continue to tag along for the ride.
If there is one universal constant, it is that I am not normal. Another is that what goes up, must (eventually) come down.
And it is with a combination of sadness (and hope) that I officially close down smackfoo.com. Whilst the site will remain active for posterities sake1 it will cease to be my primary voice and will as such not see updates.
It’s also time to bid Wordpress goodbye. It’s been a fine vehicle for basic content management, but is simply not heading in a direction that I chose to follow. It is increasingly difficult to maintain code for the platform and consumes more time than it really should.
I have always appreciated the chance to share ideas and philosophies2 and I thank each and every visitor and regular alike for dropping by.
As I’ve hinted at previously there is however, a new love in my life. The Lab has been quietly taking shape and has developed over a few months of mixing chemicals and powders together to see what explodes. The odd scorching aside it’s worked out pretty well.
Thus, I would like to invite you all to visit the Atomic Ninja Labs — my new home.
There is a lot to be said for power-cycling a misbehaving system.
Remove the juice, wait, add juice and many-a-system-issue will disappear in a puff of imaginary smoke. Then there is the human body and mind. Which in many ways responds in the same manner. Swap juice with stress and effort, and the same results can […]
Cue dark-ages Britain. And.. action.
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Here’s one.
The Dead Collector: That’ll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There’s your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
The Dead Collector: ‘Ere, he […]
I’ve read a great deal of
advice related content lately. To be honest I’ve started to really
dislike the first scan of topics in Google Reader each morning. Because a great many seem to be telling me how to talk, how not to talk, how to write, how not to write and how I should […]
Shawn’s recent update on comments has a
simple yet powerful message:
“.. on a site with comments disabled there is no pressure. Once you’ve read the article that’s all. The author requires nothing of the reader but to enjoy the content. There are no awkward expectations. The article is a gift.”
A thought that is, ultimately, reflected […]
Whilst silence is sometimes considered golden, it’s somewhat less so for an online presence.
I’m tired, have aching muscles, some of which haven’t seen this kind of activity since, well, ever (surprisingly my abs have resurfaced) but am none the less vastly pleased that our move from one home, to the next, has happened with minimal […]
This time next week, all hell breaks loose, in the form of a mass-migration of ‘geeks-and-gear’ to our new home.
Thus, updates will be pretty sparse, primarily stuff in the form of links that I think are mad-cool. I may get time to drop a full post or two, but there’s no promises, sadly.
Because one simply […]
For the love of cthulu, under no circumstances, whatever you do, do not click here.
On a side note, I’ve ended up with two projects on the go..
I’d like to present a small list of 9 rules that I have slowly begun to adopt, after sitting down one day and asking myself what do I need to do, to successfully plan, initiate and complete a project.
These rules have become a bit of a bible in some respects and after much brainstorming, including talking to some very successful folks, I came up with 9 rules. I wanted 10, but I prefer odd numbers and 7 rules seemed to be a cop-out. :)
This week I am reminded, again, why I’m beginning to find the wordpress community distasteful in it’s propensity to defend the honour of Wordpress, without taking the time to listen to the common punter and indeed get the details right.
Whilst Lorelle has thoughtfully provided a great upgrade guide, she does have these kind words for anyone who follows the actual upgrade advice for Wordpress 2.1:
In other words, if you didn’t follow the instructions right, why blame WordPress? Follow them and they work.
That’s a fair call, as is the following:
Support volunteers provide these instructions on the WordPress Codex, on the forum, and all over the place. Then these same volunteers spend hours and hours saying, “Did you follow the upgrade instructions?� “No. I uploaded the files over the old ones.�
Great response there Lorelle, but have you checked the instructions before making that claim?
As broken by
Nick Wilson, up-and-coming
Perfomancing has
sold off it’s popular metrics product to
PayPerPost, the
bad boy and sometime
trouble maker of cash-for-comments startups.
Whilst PPP has (in part)
cleaned up their act they continue to be
viewed dimly by many.
Perfomancing will no doubt benefit strongly from the investment and core services such as […]
