Living life with depression in my own words, “sucks arse”. I do generally try to keep my language clean, but I have no other way to really describe the condition. Certainly not in my case at least. Today is the third day in a row that I have been away from work due to depression.
While I have always attempted to be as open as possible with my managers (given the impact the condition has on them), I have found it much more difficult to be open about things with my peers and people who work for me. Well today, I just chose to tell it how it was, and I honestly think that was the best thing to do. That does, however, mean I need to be this open with everyone so I am not putting others in a difficult situation of knowing something about me that is not widely known.
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posted on the January 18th, 2010 21 Comments »
The amount of discussion that has gone on projecting twitter’s demise based on “stalled growth” is very interesting. I think this particular example demonstrates very well that current competitive analysis techniques used for web business are broken and failing to deliver the information genuinely needed.
I believe the web is currently informationally, functionally and economically constrained from further evolution.
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posted on the January 13th, 2010 1 Comment »
Well it’s 2010, and I definitely had a distractable end to 2009 (with a distinct lack of blogging). So to kick off 2010, I thought I’d start trying to get a few of the “low hanging fruit” ideas that I’ve had over the last six months written and working.
The first of those will be an experiment using Google’s AppEngine as a front-end proxy to a less robust website, hosted on low-cost hosting. Whilst not sure, I’ve got a feeling that I’ll be able to give my self-hosted wordpress blog a layer of resilience with some app-engine mem-caching goodness.
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posted on the January 10th, 2010 No Comments »
