A Bad Year For Me Too

2016 was a bad year for me too.

I wasn't planning to write anything down for the year of 2016 because, I thought this form of thinking useless at best. Who would read this after, like, a month? And who would remember anything after 2 weeks? So what's the point?

But I just don't want to be wasting my experiences, disappointments of the whole year just because my point of view. Well, let's face it, it's the holidays and I got too much time to kill. Damn these holidays, if only I got to work over time.

Anyways, for 2016, it was hard for me as well.

For a whole year I have been working on one major project or, one major product, with my colleague, under some stressing conditions, and was able to pull something out in the end. The process, the whole thing was not that easy. Everything has to be done from the ground up, from literally zero. Although I enjoyed the process of actually had made something useful out of something plain, and the results were nice enough for me to sit back and relax for a bit, it was still hard. I don't know if I still have what it takes to do it again, if chance rises.

After October most of my time I spent on trips to various places and some of the situations were just not for me. Before that I never actually took planes to anywhere. I was a train guy before all that. But flied like 20 thousand kilometers before the end of the year. I really missed the days and nights of my own place, while staying at some unnamed hotel.

All those work coming to the end of the year I found myself stuck in a situation that, couldn't be solved with my chemistry skills. I spent days and nights thinking about ways to get better, sometimes thinking about how to fuck someone I know up so that I won't be dragged down with. It's really uncomfortable and just not within my abilities. And the stuff is still going on.

After this year of hard work, I think to me, proves that I have the ability it takes to do what I want to do. And this year also helps me realize what I really want in life, what kind of work that suits me, and what kind of balance of work and life I have in mind. But also this year and maybe the year after, shows that sometimes even if you know what you want, you are not going to get it. Even if you do, it won't be long.

posted from Bloggeroid

Open Live Writer As A MS Live Writer Alternative

Back in the days of MS Live Space, when the internet was still not censored by Chinese gov but by the speed of the internet itself, I had been using MS Live Writer for some time. And some years ago news broke out that it was discontinued. Although not much of a surprise there but as a somewhat stable, MS themed, and widely used blogging software, people (who still are blogging anyways) were upset. But soon afterward the code of the software itself was open sourced. That, was a true surprise.

Well, a fork of the original was finally released to the desktop, called, Open Live Writer (quite original naming lol) on Dec 9, 2015, about one year ago. And back when I was not actively using blogger or anything like that. But that’s another story. Anyways, one year later I decided to give it a try.

The setup was pretty straight forward, the installation is in fact the process of set up accounts, and with a few clicks, account was added and I can blog on my desktop.

But a bit strangely is the fact that Open Live Writer is a bit laggy and it shouldn’t be, because I am running it on a fairly powerful PC and the software itself shouldn’t be that power consuming at all. The interface and the typing experience isn’t the best I have ever seen anyways. But hey, what else can I ask for, as long as it can edit and post, everything is fine by me. Not that people still blogging are asking for perfections all day.

Well It Certainly Is Not Helpless

Because Google apparently opened its Blogger API or something there are some third party clients available. Duh.

I'm using one now called bloggeroid and it is minimal, functional and efficient. Just the way I like it.

Oh Shit Blogger Is Forgotten

For Google a software and services company to have a 3.8 rating app on Google play is kind of surprising to me and yes there is one.

And I am using it right now. It's the Blogger app.

Whenever I want to insert a screenshot the picture will turn out to be black and, when I want to delete that block BS, the app crushes on me.

God it seems Blogger is forgotten and ready to be trashed as well.

This App Wants to Track You

Well the story is pretty straight forward.

This android app is a client service app from a major Chinese telecom company. Years ago it has been flagged by Google for malware. Now it seems the reason for the flag is different: it wants to track you.

But honestly which app doesn't. As long as people using apps on smartphones information is leaking like crazy. Track me? Hell people use phone numbers and other identifiable information to log in apps! And these apps are supposed to remember the login! That is to say they are built to track you! Duh.

But anyways. It's hardly surprising at all to see this. Tracking or not I'm numb already.

Oh right, happy new years.

New Year Resolution

New year resolution is just a hot piece of crap, but, if having one of that tonight will make you happy, go ahead.