I‘ve been a huge fan of Readmill and I’m extremely saddened by the news that they’re closing. I think the community of Readmill is awesome and the app is the best because it’s made with love and passion for reading.
To Henrik Berggren, David Kjelkerud & the rest of the Readmill team, thank you!
Read MoreI love Readmill so much, so when Matthew told me about doing a Meet the Readmillers post with me, I WAS THRILLED.
Matthew, an awesome writer by the way, is Readmill‘s Community Manager.
For the longest time, books have been a way for us to escape. They transform monotonous travel and free time into journeys. They’re always with us, filling up our bags and electronic devices. In essence, they keep us company. We have a companion in a book, and our fondness of them can grow over time – especially if we find ourselves alone.
Readmill has helped transform the average book into something that keeps Kenna company in a grander way, as well as spurring her on to read more. “Ultimately, I find myself reading more out of my comfort zone with Readmill. I browse through other people’s highlights and see if there’s anything I like.” Kenna says that she feels for the people that can’t read every book they wish for — much like her own childhood — and is inspired to share her blessings.
Read the whole post here.
Here are other Readmillers if you’re interested, Grace Athayde and Manik Rathee.
Here are some tools and sites where you can learn and try HTML and CSS, for designing your own websites or just for learning something new. This post has been long overdue, sorry Didi.
There are a lot of tutorials and tools in the internet but here are my favorites.
Blogs/Websites
Lissa Explains it All! – This helped me a lot! It’s a site which aims to teach people, especially children, how to make their own websites. I learned almost everything here, the basics.
Don’t Fear the Internet – You can watch short tutorial videos where you’ll learn to manipulate the CSS of a basic wordpress blog, it’s HTML, and PHP.
HTML 5 Rocks – a Google site for everything HTML5
Web Design Ledger – Tutorials, freebies, inspiration on web design.
Smashing Magazine – a site/communicty for web designers and developers, from n00bs to professionals.
Line 25 – Tutorials, freebies, inspiration on web design
CSS Tricks – CSS tricks.
Tools
Cupcake Ipsum – Loren Ipsum generator with a twist.
Border Radius – round corner CSS generator
Tekzr – a coding app
Another good way to know about HTML and CSS is by reading books. A Book Apart “publishes highly detailed and meticulously edited examinations of single topics”.
The three books shown in the picture above are up for grabs until February 15, 2012 at Mensis Liber. Click here to join.
I just realized something this morning. Though I really like my job, I don’t or should I say, I won’t keep on doing it until I’m 50, even better if I don’t need to keep it until 35 or 40, I’m working on that.
I just realized that the system will never work for me. It will keep me fed, dressed and sheltered, but that’s it. Until I’ve saved enough money, or until such time I can no longer stomach bureacracy, politcs and pesonal bullshit, until VPs and CEOs stop getting paid as much as they’re now getting, and until the time I can still keep my mouth shut and brush my shoulder off on things such as people who kiss butt to get ahead, I’m staying. I have no problem if CEOs and all top management gets paid high, I do have a problem when those who really work hard, don’t.
It’s not a pretty sight, and you can only take it for a period of time.
I look forward to living a life on an island or a farm and just getting busy, living.
Now if only all corporate powermen will care more about others than themselves, maybe there’s still hope for the world. I’d like to think all people are born good and meant to do good.
Seriously, I’d rather live a life away from the conveniences of the city, and I’d exchange everything I have to be able to live a life where people care more about caring for someone else than themselves, because such a thing is beautiful.
When you walk by a group of quote-unquote normal people you chuckle to yourself, patting yourself on the back as you scoff. It’s the same superiority complex shared by the high school jocks who made your life a living hell, makes you a slave to the competitive capitalist dogma you spend every moment of your waking life BITCHING about!
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Cause I’m proud of my life and the things that I have done, proud of myself and the loner I’ve become. You’re free to whine. It will not get you far. I do just fine, my car and my guitar, proud of my life and the things that I have done, proud of myself and the loner I’ve become. You’re free to whine. It will not get you far. I do just fine, my car and my guitar.
Admit it! by Say Anything
Maybe I should work on my fishing skills more, it will help me get food. Eat what you catch.
Fate controls who walks into your life. You decide who you let walk out, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. Unknown
Separating professional from personal relationships is difficult. It’s important to set boundaries for both.
Read Russel Brand’s “Big Brother isn’t watching you” for The Guardian.
Below is an excerpt.
That state of deprivation though is, of course, the condition that many of those rioting endure as their unbending reality. No education, a weakened family unit, no money and no way of getting any. JD Sports is probably easier to desecrate if you can’t afford what’s in there and the few poorly paid jobs there are taken. Amidst the bleakness of this social landscape, squinting all the while in the glare of a culture that radiates ultraviolet consumerism and infrared celebrity. That daily, hourly, incessantly enforces the egregious, deceitful message that you are what you wear, what you drive, what you watch and what you watch it on, in livid, neon pixels. The only light in their lives comes from these luminous corporate messages. No wonder they have their fucking hoods up.
I found those protests exciting, yes, because I was young and a bit of a twerp but also, I suppose, because there was a void in me. A lack of direction, a sense that I was not invested in the dominant culture, that government existed not to look after the interests of the people it was elected to represent but the big businesses that they were in bed with.
If we don’t want our young people to tear apart our communities then don’t let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together.
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, “So what.” “My mother didn’t love me.” So what. ”My husband won’t ball me. So what. ”I’m a success but I’m still alone.” So what. I don’t know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.” Andy Warhol1) No matter how young or old you are, you should be able to enjoy what you’re doing, if you can’t find any good reason to be doing it, let it go and move on.