Blogs & Bloggers

Having a blog does not a blogger make

Courtesy of blog4students.wordpress.com

There are blogs, then there are non-blogs! I find it strange how often I come across non-blogs. After going to all the trouble to start one, then using it for really ridiculous things

Let me elaborate:

Going through quite a large number of WordPress.com 'latest posts' today (Hell, i needed a break from the heavy stuff of the past few days, fixing computer bugs, working on 3 web site layouts, drafting the first several series of customer information articles for graphicline.co.za, Absorbing more Drupal, writing an article for Graphiclineweb blog, and so on...), I came across a surprisingly high percentage of these non-blogs.

Here's a few examples (and I am not including URLs - they don't deserve to get traffic, it will just encourage the 'authors' to continue with this nonsense.

Karma the wheel turns

Karma or Concern

Karma: The Wheel of Life

Karma is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect. (wikipedia)

"neither a god nor a guru have any role in a person's karma—the individual is considered to be the sole doer and enjoyer of his karmas and their 'fruits'."

Simply put, Karma is: as you sow so shall you reap.  or in other words; what goes around comes around. It is the natural cycle of cause and effect.  We’re all part of one organic whole in which everything is interrelated and everything affects everything else.

Something New to Learn

Oh Yes! Something new to get my head into. 

Later this month I will be deploying Drupal, followed by WordPress, systems on my Graphicline domain. With a target date to begin deployment set for 21 July, I got hold of the Drupal installation and configuration material. Some 250 pages of relevant technical details for the set up required, and maybe another hundred pages of associated info. The book(s) will be available shortly for any interested viewer form my website Click Here

JOHANNESBURG - GAUTENG

"Egoli" Is that gold in the air, or just everyday SMOG

Some people actually like this place! Well, good for them... Even some that live in the area like it!

Then theres those that HAVE LEFT and still say they enjoyed living here.. WHY DON'T YOU PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS AND COME AND LIVE HERE AGAIN!

Recently a friend and his better half was made an offer that can't be refused.... Transfer to Jhb from PE...

Whingeing About The Economy: PE

I'm tired of hearing how bad things are in PE. The economy is dead, there’s no business, there’s no work, there’s no, ……., whatever!!!

Port Elizabeth

 Now forgive me if the ‘experts’ don’t agree with you’ all, but looking at economic commentary, it would seem you guys are not in such a pickle as you would have the rest of us believe.

Fukushima - Let Engineers Engineer

Fukushima – the shit that happens when engineers must bow to committees.

The events transpiring in Fukushima over the last several weeks raise the question of culpability. Who is ultimately to blame?

Fair enough, it took a natural event to cause the devastation, BUT, in a nation that is used to earthquakes and tsunamis, and the only nation on the planet to have been targeted by nuclear weaponry, I would think safety concerns would by in the forefront of design engineers’ minds.

I believe we are seeing here a similar situation to that of the space shuttle ‘accidents’, of which “Challenger” is the one closest to everyone’s’ hearts.

Rocket Science

IT’S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE

How often I hear this term used to describe a process, method, task, or whatever.

I must be very stupid, because I come away feeling confused. What is the person using this term trying to convey to his audience. Someone, (evidently I lot brighter than I) am informed me the term is used to describe something that is quite simple and easy to do.

Now I’m even more confused. Surely that is conflicting statement. After all rocket science is just that, simple and easy. Humans somehow managed to build rockets quite some time before they built internal combustion engines. And we are led to believe, at least from discovered artefacts, these people were not very technologically advanced. So surely the terminology intending to describe a simple procedure should be “It’s Just Rocket Science.”

After all, rocketry is based on a small set of rather basic principles, action/reaction. Energy exerting a force (action) in one direction, results in an equal and opposite force (reaction) in the opposite direction. If my somewhat flaky memory serves, that sounds pretty much like primary school science to me. Fine, there are engineering aspects involved, especially if one wishes to launch an overweight lump of steel and more exotic metals into lunar orbit. Fuels can be somewhat unstable (that means they have a tendency to go bang at inconvenient times, but then so does nitro-glycerine).

Still, this doesn’t change the fact rocket science is pretty simple. As an 8 year old kid, my friends and self built rockets. Very simple devices, home made or otherwise ‘acquired’ black powder (laws were a little more relaxed in those days), strong lightweight tubing (used firework tubes were great – recycling even back then!), epoxy putty nozzles, a balsa wood stick to provide guidance. Using only basic diagrams available in any encyclopaedia.

Simple stuff. Quite a few even worked!