Mar 152005
 

The new breed of bloggers don’t get it. I see a lot of new blogs emerging, mostly from big companies where blogging is becoming a marketing strategy, with an initial blogging asking “what do you want to see in my blog?”. DUH! People won’t come to your blog if you write what they want. And having your blog on the aggregated page of your company doesn’t automatically mean you have something to say to us. It just means you started a blog. Think of something. If you’re not a writer, then don’t start a blog. Or do some research. Actually read a few blogs of your colleagues. Or from your competitors. Or some personal blogs. Then decide what to write, but don’t ask. Scoble doesn’t ask, he just does, and we all like it.

 Posted by at 11:05
Mar 152005
 

Today (well, actually yesterday) I started programming on a little application to practice calculations like:

0,1 m = … cm
100 cm3 = … dm3

The basic checking routine is there, now I need to create some sort of database that stores “unit1”, “unit2” and the “factor”, e.q. “m”, “cm”, “100”. I could make it very flexible by storing the factors for m(illi), c(enti), d(eci), M(ega), G(iga), but that would also mean some sort of stringmanipulation. The way I choose is flexible enough without loosing its simplicity. Also, I can now have “dozen”, “pieces”, “12” as a record.

 Posted by at 00:57