I have nothing to say, really.
Fuck off.
For what it’s worth, I do have a long list of half-written or at least half-thought blog posts. Including, but not limited to my reasons to not like Android anymore, why I like #100factsaboutme and my thoughts on my week in Berlin last week.
As most of you might know, I am an avid and early user of Twitter. You can find me under @dominik. For a while I have played around with auto-posting my blog posts to this account, but soon I was annoyed by my own spammy behavior. Now it turns out that some people actually liked being notified of new blog posts via Twitter. This is why I now decided to auto-post my blog posts to the account @lostfocus – so, if you’re interested in stuff like this, go ahead and follow it. Enjoy.
Now who of you guys is still here?
This blog was down 1 hour and 25 minutes last month, according to Pingdom. Is that now good or bad?
Fun fact: Since I started writing a daily blog post, the visitor numbers here dropped by 25%. I must be doing something right.
February is a nice, short month. 28 days should be more than enough for one month, it’s conveniently exactly four weeks and all in all it seems to be right. Last year I celebrated February’s awesomeness by growing a mustache:
This year I want to torture myself a tiny bit more. While I might keep growing whatever you might call that has been hanging around my chin since October 4th and shave it into an awesome mustache at the end of the month, I did actually decide on something else for this year.
I will try to post a full-length blog post with at least a hundred words each and every single day. While I am aware that this might not sound like much of an undertaking for people who do write a lot – it is a lot for me. Usually everything I think about any given topic at any given moment can be neatly put into 140 characters. I will need your help with that. I’ll need some encouragement and especially topics to write about.
For quite a while I’ve been pondering language issues online – both on the (social) web generally and here on LostFocus specifically. And I know that many bi- or multilingual bloggers and developers1 of services on the web are facing the same general dilemma: stay within your local language and connect with local people or switch to the global lingua franca of the internet – English – and communicate globally with like-minded people, while constantly facing the danger of sounding like an idiot due to the fact that one isn’t using his first language.
I did put a lot of thought into this, so much in fact that I am getting too lazy to write it down for a blog post. In essence this is my way of telling you that as of today2 this blog here is going to be in English again. I’ll continue using English for most of my online communication – be it on Twitter, on Flickr, on Facebook or whatever happens to come next.
Gerade eine Email von DomainFactory bekommen:
Der Tarif Virtual Server Standard, den Sie bei uns bestellt haben, ist für die derzeitige Lasterzeugung Ihres Accounts nicht mehr ausreichend, ein Wechsel auf einen dedizierten Server wäre sinnvoll.
Wie bitte? Außer LF läuft da nichts mehr und ich habe hier so wenig Traffic…
100k IMHO
Abundzu muss ich mal den “Old School”-Test machen.
Ich bin ja nie zufrieden mit diesem Blog hier.1 Erschreckenderweise scheinen alle Ideen, die ich so habe, darauf zielen, mir entweder selbst eine Software zu schreiben,2 mich mit diversen WordPress-Plugins rumzuschlagen3 oder gar Textpattern zu benutzen.4 Was soll ich nur machen?
Benedikt Köhler hat mal in der Geschichte der großen Weblogs gewühlt. Ich habe ja irgendwann im Mai 2000 die ersten zaghaften Schritte gewagt, war dann erschreckend lange Zeit bei Diaryland1 und habe auch mit Blogger.com rumgespielt. So wirklich losgebloggert habe ich dann aber doch erst 2003.
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