The Beta News

I was pleasantly surprised to see The Beta News mentioned on MoMB, Museum of Modern Betas a few days ago. I’ve always been a big fan of MoMB and the work Saurier Duval puts into it. If you are into twitter, you should check out MoMB’s top 100 popular twitter sites. Remember you can follow [...]

Darren Rowse has just invented the Blogger Appreciation Day. Today it’s all about saying “Thank you” to your favourite blogger(s). It could be a peptalk, a “Thank You”-mail or a few words of encouragement. I would like to thank the following people in no particular order:

As some of you know (you will if you follow me on twitter), I’ve got a new job. This is my first week as team manager at Norriq.. I’m managing a team of consultants with expertise in Windows 2003, Symantec and Citrix products, Microsoft Exchange, firewall and various other infrastructure solutions. Unfortunately I had to [...]

In my quest to make a living of blogging I’ve now turned my attention to my equipment a.k.a my gadgets. If you didn’t already know that, well I’m working on it. Hopefully in a couple of years I can quit my day job and make a living out of blogging. I think I would be [...]

I was checking out my visitor’s Entrecards as I ran into Leon who runs “My Thoughts On…Stuff”. He had just checked his blog’s readability. According to his post he was rather surprised that his blog’s reading level “only” is Elementary School. Then the lightning hit me – Is The Beta News too easy to read? [...]

Several months ago SlideShare launched a presentation contest. The goal was to find the World’s Best Presentation. The presentations were judged by top presentation gurus and the viewers (us, you and me). The judges and top presentation gurus were Guy Kawasaki, Bert Decker, Garr Reynolds and Jerry Weissman. Now I’ve created my share of presentations [...]

I just updated my blogs to WordPress 2.3. I know that some of you will be cautious, but I tried with one of my lesser known (!) blogs first and it went very smoothly. No errors or major problems. I deactivated all my plugins and replaced all files on my server with the new WordPress [...]

BlogRush. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last week, you probably already know what I’m talking about. I will however spend a couple of words explaining what it’s all about and how to get it. BlogRush is very similar to BlogBurst, except everyone can instantly get access to BlogRush and everybody has [...]

My good blogging-friend, Show Me Your Desktop-participant, designer extra-ordinaire and star blogger, David Airey is celebrating his one year anniversary with a $4,000 prize draw. David is an Irish logo designer living in exile in Edinburgh, Scotland. I reckon, he found out that Pure Pot Still whisky isn’t as good as Single Malt. I can’t [...]

As you might have noticed I didn’t post anything here for an entire week. Thats a long time in the blogosphere and I want to make that up again. But let me start out by explaining why you had to miss my input for an entire week. It was my vacation The video game Bioshock [...]