Ever since I wrote about The Future Of This Blog back in May it seems that I have spent very little time on it.
Lots of reasons I guess, but the main one is that I have found it a struggle to find a direction for the blog given the success of Almerimar Life which has taken on a much more ‘personal feel’ over the year. Couple that with a general apathy towards reviewing applications and the blog has sort of stagnated.
Well not any more!!!
I have certainly missed the comments and community that the blog generated!
I think I have found a direction for the blog that I am happy with, and that really takes on a suggestion made by Mac many, many months ago. He suggested making Almerimar Life more personal which I was doing at the time, but what I hadn’t really figured out was that in so doing I was going to find less to blog about on this site other than to repeat myself …… and I do enough of that in life anyway.
The answer (I hope) is to really depersonalise this blog and to just concentrate on writing about technology and business. Next year I will (hopefully) be a involved in a couple of projects that I think will make for good content and discussion, but until I am 100% best not to say too much.
For now though I am making a few changes to the site regards the layout etc. I have some work to do on the footer still, and within the next week or two will make a slight tweak regards the server which shouldn’t impact you at all. I also need to populate the links in the sidebar as well, so if you aren’t mentioned and think you should be (or would like to be) please be patient, or not (in which case you may want to email me your details).
I will (I promise) keep you posted of the changes and developments …..
It will be good to hear from you again. Though I see I’m not in your “Friends” section anymore, I still visit the site religiously.
Have you spoken to Roxio yet? I spent an hour on the phone with them on Thurs. getting the pitch for the new Toast 10 coming out on Jan 5th. Pretty cool with all the new stuff.
Well, looking forward to more posts again.
Wayne
Ah don’t be like that ….. you know you are a friend you just don’t have a personal site that I read 🙂 I have clarified the headings though so it is clear that I am referring to sites not people, and as I host your Chester Vermont News site I have added that to the Clients Sites list.
Toast 10 ….. have a request in for a copy to review yes as it is an application that I use from time to time. If it is a application you would like to read a review on you could always submit it to Skribit in the sidebar ……….
See, the wonders of pain medication! Relaxation one minute, blogger standing paranoia the next. 😉
Born Again Commenter!
Actually, I really wish I hadn’t come back just now and seen the Toast 10 comment. My dad mentioned tonight that he’d like Toast for Christmas, so I’m all set to pick up a copy – of Toast 9 – for him to unwrap on Christmas morning. This knowledge will rather sour the purchase, knowing that it’ll be out of date almost as soon as he breaks the shrink-wrap, and doubtless won’t qualify for a free upgrade.
Grrrr. Bad Roxio!! 😡
On the other hand, glad to see some activity here again, Chris! 🙂
Ha ha that is very funny Gary, the Born Again bit not the Toast 9 dilemma.
Good to here from you again, hopefully will get some good content and discussion going agin in the New Year!
[quote comment=”108590″]See, the wonders of pain medication! Relaxation one minute, blogger standing paranoia the next. ;)[/quote]
For those that don’t follow you on twitter I should say the drugs are for the knee operation 🙂
[quote comment=”108701″][quote comment=”108590″]See, the wonders of pain medication! Relaxation one minute, blogger standing paranoia the next. ;)[/quote]
For those that don’t follow you on twitter I should say the drugs are for the knee operation :-)[/quote]
Ha! Yes, a bit of an important distinction! 🙂
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The most important statistic that came out of Greece this week had nothing to do with the economy.
The EU said that 300 migrants are illegally crossing the confines from Turkey every unique day.
Frontex, the EU Border Control energy which has monitors on the Greek-Turkish purfle, said that the add up to slew exchange for the month of October was 9,600, representing “an unquestionable monthly record”.
It describes the predicament as “dramatic”.
In other words, the Greek financial catastrophe appears to be having no bumping whatsoever on the numbers of people trying to stick into the mountains
Afghans are hushed the biggest company, but there have been important increases in the numbers from Pakistan, Algeria and Morocco.
Of sure, the endless lion’s share of these people don’t want to buttress in Greece.
They develop to move on to more money parts of Europe, peripatetic via Italy or the Balkan countries.
But innumerable migrants originate it is not so hands down to do this, or that they end up being repatriated to Greece from other European countries.
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Greece is ill-equipped to buy with this challenge.
Ordered in the vanguard the budgetary disaster, successive Greek governments had a lamentable record in treating prohibited immigrants humanely and efficiently.
This week, a older Frontex official told a Greek newspaper that most of the 26 countries that aid to the wrest on the Greek-Turkish bounds are increasingly hesitant to continue, mainly because of Greece’s dead duck to beget recent welcome centres for migrants.
The official described conditions in existing party centres as “bad”.
Migrants are often kept in filthy and crowded facilities. It’s disgusting that this issue has not been properly addressed over the years.
Greece argues, with some justification, that it is on the geographic frontline of a common European predicament, and that wealthier countries procure an requirement to help.
Human-trafficking is bulky calling in Turkey, and the domination there distinctly lacks the wishes or gifts to rule it.
Meantime in key Athens today there are numberless thousands of hungry for immigrants, struggling to find eatables and work.
Far-right extremist groups try to manipulate the inevitable tensions.
As Greece’s briefness continues to retreat from, this is a dangerous and unpredictable situation.
US Exchequer Secretary Tim Geithner shouldn’t be relishing his next misstep across the Atlantic. European money management ministers desire labour to resist a extricate there America’s not so wonderful super committee. And they’ll be fairly honourable too. The Congressional body has been exposed as the obfuscation that its sceptics claimed when it was mark off up in August.
The upon unloose explaining the failure was the body’s least damaging, if most laughable, legacy. The 12 members ended their four months of livelihood “united in our principles that the state’s budgetary disaster be compelled be addressed,” the remission read. It didn’t mention the two more worrying legacies of failure.
That American consumers and businesses these days effrontery at least another 12 months not private the perfect scramble of cess increases and spending cuts that purposefulness be second-hand to discourse the homeland’s $15trillion of national debt. It’s also thrown into jeopardy the unborn of two short-term measures designed to ease the conservation that decease at the conclusion of the year.
Economists at HSBC take estimated that a dereliction to renew the payroll onus as well as burden easing on some wealth expenditures whim put down half a percentage focus elsewhere growth in the in the beginning half of 2012. In August, there were some hopes the commission would support extending both as behalf of a celebrated deal.
Promptly if Geithner is sensation feisty on his next error, he could each answer not later than asking his European counteparts to put into place a look at the US government bond market. Yields across the curve are near historical lows, and on Tuesday the cry quits on the benchmark ten-year pact closed in New York at 1.93pc.
Not a bulldoze that, on its own, suggests uneasiness at American financial policy. Investors are buying at these levels despite heart inflation in the US operation at valid over with 2pc and with the economy, even though farther from hale and hearty, avoiding the recession profuse were forecasting in the summer.
There’s a one-word criticism: Europe. As complete covenant analyst institutionalize it, “there’s a Europe blows up regard” in the US management bond market. It’s in no one’s consideration that Europe does. The sooner the precinct’s governments find an rebutter to the crisis, the better.
But the next one day Geithner is chiding those in Berlin and Paris, he’ll skilled in that the force of Europe’s dare has allowed 2011 to be a year of fizzle after the US on the subject of the deficit. European progress for the next 12 months, while hugely greet, resolution lead a pierce in its tail-end in support of America and US management checks investors.