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This Is Why You Need “Evil Plans”
Ever since reading Hugh MacLeod’s “Ignore Everybody” in 2009 and writing a review of it here on Mind the Beginner I’ve been a fan of Hugh’s work. So when Hugh tweeted that @MaureenCole would be offering some review copies of his new book, I jumped right on it. Even though I live on the other [...]
Continue reading...The Rule of 7 and Effective Writing
25 January 2010
If you’re not interested in effective writing or have mastered the skill of writing skip this blogpost. If you’re like me and always on the lookout for tips to make things more effective, this one if for you! Block quotes are one of the three attention-grabbers when scanning an article to see if it’s worth [...]
Continue reading...Giving your blog a Flying Start in 31 easy steps
13 January 2010
A few hours ago an e-mail entered my inbox. Sent by Problogger, a blogger you might now as Darren Rowse, one of the biggest bloggers out there and one of the happy few who makes a six figure income by blogging. A long time ago when I started this blog Darren was offering a cycle [...]
Continue reading...Imagine a safer world, imagine privacy
26 October 2009
A guestpost by a friend of mine, however he's not in favor of having his name out in public, so I'll just call him mr. Fingerprint. No blog link, nor twitter, or facebook, sorry... He's the kind of guy who is very concerned about privacy and rights, preferring open source and making downloading legal. Never a dull chat with this guy I assure you. Let's talk Beatles here. Imagine. Imagine that some day, some people somewhere who vaguely have something to do with trade laws and international cooperation decide it would be a good idea to add something to travel documents. Something like, say, biometrics. Because well, that would lower the risks of identity theft, fraud and illegal immigration. Sounds like a good idea, doesn't it?
Continue reading...Claiming bragging rights, do you even want to know?
21 October 2009
There I was, sitting on a chair in the cafeteria listening to a fellow student bragging about lack of sleep, a hangover and all other things related to "student life" (At least, according to that student..) Although on the surface it looked like I was listening and interested in fact was I really felt a bit sorry for him. He didn't manage to gather enough points last year to pass so he was back in year one... "I could have made it....
Continue reading...Project Mojave, just another get rich quick scheme?
13 October 2009
There’s a buzz in the lifestyle design sector the last few days. Clay Collins is about to re-open Project Mojave to the public. For a modest fee you can take part and learn how to build a “freedom business” in 3.8 months. But what is it exactly. What I can tell you is that the [...]
Continue reading...What do you think of the new look?
13 October 2009
As I’m tinkering more and more with the code behind this theme things are slowly getting where I want them to be. Okay, I’ve seemed to misplaced an icon in the above right, in that row with home, subscribe and twitter… the twitterlogo is missing in action. I’ve made it disapear, and if I have [...]
Continue reading...Under construction
9 October 2009
As you might notice this blogpage is still very much under construction. I’ve been blogging for 6 months on a wordpress.com blog and after reaching the 100 subscribers mark thought it time to get my own domain. That’s where you are are right now. But I don’t have everything under complete control yet. This is [...]
Continue reading...You know what this means?
7 October 2009
I broke the 100 this weekend and again today. I've been blogging since March 13th 2009. That's 219 days to get to this level. Now it's on to the next challenges. The first challenge being: getting this blog over to its own domain. After that I'm going to persue a few more challenges:
Continue reading...A slow blog is a good blog, or is it?
27 September 2009
It won’t have gone unnoticed by now that my posting frequency has dropped dramatically. There is a high correlation between this phenomenon and the hours I’m spending on my homework. Take this weekend for example, I’ve been working roughly eight hours spread over the last two days trying to solve SQL queries. Problogger warns against [...]
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