Following the true half-geek tradition pursued at chiperoni.ch, I’ve upgraded to the latest version of WordPress. So far everything looks like it’s working fine. Please leave a comment if you stumble across an error. I guess, I’m curious to see how Akismet will help to curb spam. Thanks wp for fixing so many bugs. As… Continue reading upgraded to wp 2.0

useful: Illustrator Tutorials via del.icio.us

I’d like to point you to this posting, which sums up a lot of things i’m discovering about blogging: Why You Should Blog Even though many of my long postings* never reach publish status, writing is a great way to reflect on stuff. And I love saying, “I’m blogging this”… *The short postings do get… Continue reading Why You Should Blog…

for future reference: Anatomy of an Icon Source: Swissmiss

I couldn’t think of the German word. Instead I used this word to describe what I was trying to say: ADJECTIVE: Tastelessly showy: brummagem, chintzy, flashy, gaudy, glaring, loud, meretricious, tawdry, tinsel. Informal : tacky Source: garish. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. and surprised myself what vocab is hidden in the back… Continue reading garish

yet another tagging tool: Shadows

Here’s a link that has been lingering in draft status for the last couple of months: How to learn from your mistakes I’ve been meaning to write up some of my own thoughts on this topic. But so far I haven’t got round to it yet… So here’s the link instead. How do you learn… Continue reading How to learn from your mistakes

stumbled across this Newsweek article at Kottke.org: At Google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of “knowledge workers.” After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses… Continue reading Google’s Ten Golden Rules

Just got back from an excellent gospel concert held by the Basileia church choir in the Theodorkirche. A great way to start the Christmas season on an icy cold and grey November day. [Note to my readers: This restless nomad is developing traditions. See last year’s entry]

found this excellent posting on the African brain drain dilemma: I am weary of the brain drain argument. It belongs to donor and NGO conferences, not to the real lives of those who must live by their wits and effort as opposed to a cheque from Western taxpayers. Those who bandy the argument are relentlessly… Continue reading If You Think Africa is Suffering From a Brain Drain, Your Brain is Drained

[…] average cubicle dwellers work at one thing for just 11 minutes at a stretch and this is divided into three-minute chunks. Once they are interrupted from the task in hand it takes them 25 minutes to get back to it. source: print version of yesterday’s FTD and here’s the original article, which was published… Continue reading Work, interrupted

Stumbled across this: dodgeball.com :: mobile social software Sounds like fun. And more stress. Don’t know about you, but I’m getting kind of tired of all the different networking platforms like Open BC and Linked In.