Shifting focus

Posted: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 ~ 4:54 PM

This is the last new post that I'll be making on this blog. I decided a while back to shift the focus of my web activities, and thought it was time to formally close things off here.

Why stop posting here? Mostly just a feeling that I needed to shake things up a bit, to put some serious effort behind a few other ideas that I've wanted to work on for a while. Making a clean break just felt right.

There may still be some activity on this site as I back-fill some old posts from other blogging platforms. My goal is to eventually have this as a (more or less) complete archive of my personal blogging from early 1998 to this year. That's a background project of mine that I plan on allocating a bit more time to in 2010.

A huge thanks to Karl Dubost for hosting this blog for so long. In addition to providing this infrastructure, Karl has supported and inspired me in more ways then he may realize. That you are reading this today is due in no small part to him, so you can thank (or blame!) him.

I put together this list for a co-worker who wants to learn more about Cassandra: (0.5 beta 2 out now!)

karl

Lundi 21 décembre 2009 à 0:10

Peut-être, l’impression collective que l’écrivain ne fait pas partie de ce monde, mais d’un autre ailleurs mal défini.

Complimenter quelqu’un d’un statut innaccessible (pour la plupart des gens) rend le commentaire douteux. En revanche, un journaliste est une personne plus proche du peuple, plus au cœur de l’action et c’est donc plus engageant.

Le commentaire était en langue anglaise. Le journaliste a l’image du self-made man qui écrit bien et qui s’est fait une place dans le monde brutal grâce à son courage, sa passion, son engagement physique (mythologie du boxeur).

Un écrivain est très rarement perçu comme une personne engagée.

Que des suppositions de dimanche matin par -12ºC.

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