Congratulations are due to my brother – he did it! He graduated from Intercollege (Limassol Campus) with Diploma (Associate Degree) of Computer Science. Good job, dude!
I’ve attended his graduation ceremony today and made a few snaps. We than moved on to the Chesters Bar for a couple of pints.
The rest of the pictures are in this Flickr set.
Technology has been marching forward in particularly large steps for the last hundred or so years. And with every step, there was a situation where some people had to convert to new professions, because their old ones were outsourced to technology. Some people though, managed to earn a living by doing the job better and cheaper.
As an example, high attitude workers come to mind. People, who work on high buildings and have special training are still sometimes cheaper than special equipment needed to get to those hights.
Thinking about this, I came to realize that such writers, radio commentators, and video people will have the same share in today’s technology advancement. Hiring a good writer for a blogging network, for example, is cheaper and easier to do than trying to outperform by optimizing the ads and SPAMing the hell out of the web to promote the resource. Good content brings audiences faster and for longer, than other “artificial” methods. So, those who can produce good content (talented radios, people with good voice and something to say, video crews) will (and already are) occupy that special place.
Just a thought.
I was scrolling through Matt Cutts’ blog, where I saw this entry about how to make your own favicon. I knew how to make a favicon for a few years now, but I since I was scrolling through (just to get the author’s style, etc) I read it. One sentence got my attention (see in bold, the second one is for the context):
That’s two dashes before the “color.†Silly WordPress converts it to a single long dash.
Being a non-native English speaker, I was amazed at that very moment. You see, most of my non-native English speaking friends, myself included, would’ve wrote “Stupid WordPress”, not “Silly WordPress”. Although both words are well known and are in active vocabulary.
And I was amazed by the difference that is made with just one word. In both cases, there is a complain towards WordPress. But using “stupid” instead of “silly” suddenly makes it all heavy, rude, and accusative. “Silly” on the other hand is a much lighter version.
I’ll try to use “silly” instead of “stupid” from now on.
Yes, I do. Truly. Especially on the days like this. My blogger’s block is gone and I really can’t stop posting. And it feels good!
If you’d rather read something else and someone smart, there are a few links to some really nice blogs in this small interview.
I am under attack by dead cockroaches. I found the first one yesterday, when I got home from work. It was right in the middle of the room. Cold and dead.
Two hours later, one magically appeared on my computer table. Again, exactly in the center. And this one was bigger in size.
Today, in the morning, yet another one was found in the bathroom. Not in the center though. But I could easily imagine the Golden Mean lines, that pointed to that exact location.
I can understand the dead roaches. Probably I’ve got a neighboor trying out new Raid. But for the heck of times, I don’t get the geometry behind all these deaths. It doesn’t look like a coincidence. I don’t believe in cockroaches’ intelligence. What else? Are those aliens coming into my house and strategically putting the bodies of dead roaches? What is the message that they are trying to convey?
Or maybe it’s all connected to this post that I’ve linked to recently?