www.vincentwrites.net

Goodbye Blogger, hello again Wordpress. You can find my new site on www.vincentwrites.net. It includes everything that I've written so far:

• electricpublishing.blogspot.com
• favourits.blogspot.com (purposefully mispelled)
• justforsng.blogspot.com
• foodandretail.blogspot.com
• personal blogsites
•  I'll slowly import my writing www.TechITEasy.org as well.

In the end, I hope it will serve as both a portfolio and as a platform for new writing (fiction, non-fiction, and reviews).

See you there!

In Web: hey are you cool

It's perhaps because I'm in a melancholic mood thinking about stories, twists, turns, and stuff, but this site's slice-of-life narrative really appealed to me. I could not imagine being there (this is about the game DayZ), but I certainly appreciate the drama of these moments. Anyway, like reading a sort of story, it gives a strong insight into what "daily life" is like in DayZ, with Zombies and the survival part of it.

"Moments after spawning, saw this guy on a beach, seemingly staring out to sea." 

In Web: Beforethey.com (pass away)

Takes pictures of tribes that are sure not to be around if you believe in history believing itself. Currently, you can see galleries of tribe members in Ethiopia, Indonesia + Papua New Guinea, Kenya + Tanzania, New Zealand, Mongolia, Siberia - Yamal, Nepal, China, Vanuatu, Argentina + Ecuador, Namibia, India, and Siberia - Chukotka.

Click on the title or the link to see the site.

In Web: Could you escape a little planet?

File this XKCD research under valuable information for explaining kids the difference between The Little Prince and real life (hint: there is none):

"The escape velocity at the surface would be about 5 meters per second. That's slower than a sprint, but still pretty fast. As a rule of thumb, if you can't dunk a basketball, you wouldn't be able to escape by jumping straight up."

In Web: Stephen Fry's Twitter poetry

Meant to be read upside down:

But NOT Vista and OS X. Non posso. Unmöglich. x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
Coke and Pepsi. (Coke and Ecstasy for that matter ...) x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
Bach and Mahler x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
Carbs and protein x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
You can like iPhones and BlackBerries x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
You can like Dickens and Austen x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
You can love Mozart and Wagner x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie
It's possible to like the Beatles and the Stones. x about 2 hours ago from Tweetie

By Stephen Fry.

In people: my Twitter quotes of the day

Twitter.com/vincentvw

I've been collecting a number of quotes over the last few months, not many, but enough for this post.

• "A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." (Warren Buffett)


• [about starting a company] "The truth is boring: the state of the economy doesn't matter much either way." (Paul Graham) http://bit.ly/3rtGG7


• "I only report what I know to be true. This is not some sort of high standard. It is basic journalism." (John Gruber) http://bit.ly/1gE0YN


• "Think about the things that don't change in the next 5-10 years." (Jason Fried).


• "find an editor you can trust, one who is working at the highest possible level of professionalism" (Simon Roberts) http://tinyurl.com/4phbo8


• "How much of human life is lost in waiting…?" Ox, Indiana Jones, 2008


• "Truth be told, I like getting my ass kicked because it makes me angry, motivated and focused." @jasoncalacanis on the downturn


• "When things go bad nowadays, you get yourself an Ism, and you're in business" (M. Vanderhof 1938) http://tinyurl.com/2f56yw


• "Risk Aversion is the single biggest innovation killer" (@KathySierra), via @ceciiil http://tinyurl.com/6x9933


• "He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks inside, awakes." (Carl Jung quote from an AVC comment)


• "what A-list twitterers are doing with their 1000s of followers is turning it into mass-media again."(@Matthias20)

In web: Phil Gyford’s website

Gyford.com

Design:

• I first noticed the nicely categorised lists at the side: currently reading, the recently listened to tracks (changes to most listened artists when you click on a post, which I prefer).
• I liked the choices in rss-feeds: writing only, pictures only, links only, or a combination of the above.
• The picture feed at the top is very subtle.
• And I love, love the time-line view of the things he's done. Best I've seen so far.

Content:

• The time-line view, once again, is excellent and shows a well-rounded background, which should also translate into better writing.
• I can mainly judge the article I originally fell on through Kottke, entitled "Graphs that lie," which makes for an interesting point.
• The video he acted in, called Manicato, is very nice though!

1st impression: I like.

In web: favourite bookmarklets

Definition: A bookmarklet is an applet, a small computer application, stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. The term is a portmanteau of the terms bookmark and applet.

• Del.icio.us — bookmarks


• Printwhatyoulike — remove unneeded graphics & blank spaces before printing.


• Send to Twitter (alternative: send to FriendFeed)


• TinyUrl it (or bit.ly it)


• Translate.google.com — the key to multilingual web-browsing.


• I ♥ Twitterkeys