'Just for Fun'

I have created a new blog with Wordpress.com.

This will help me to specialise the topics of my blogging (to encourage me to write more, not to organise it!).
If I then register my own domain, I'll most probably keep this blog for travel, leisure and literature, my Wordpress one for techno-babble, and my own domain name for something even more specialised - social and humanitarian issues possibly - and create new blogs with Wordpress for any other topics, like English teaching.
http://nufroftsuj.wordpress.com/

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I was actually inspired to start a new blog and even make my own website reading Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds.

I did learn fairly early that the best and most effective way to lead is by letting people do things because they want to do them, not because you want them to. The best leaders also know when they are wrong, and are capable of pulling themselves out. And the best leaders enable others to make decisions for them.

This was a big issue I felt when working under pressure in one branch of a large Language school in Malaysia. I could and will (and already have done) go on about it - the futility of my efforts as an inspired English teacher.

Let me rephrase that. Much of Linux's success can be attributed to my own personality flaws: 1) I'm lazy; and 2) I like to get credit for the work of others. Otherwise the Linux development model, if that's what people are calling, would still be limited to daily email messages among a half-dozen geeks, as opposed to an intricate web of hundreds of thousands of participants relying on mailing lists and developers' conventions and corporate sponsorship in maybe 4,000 projects that are taking place at any one time. At the top, arbitrating disputes over the operating system's kernel, is a leader whose instinct is, and has always been, not to lead.

These quotes are from the last pages of the first testament (part) of his story.

The hackers - programmers - working on Linux and other open source projects forego sleep, Stairmaster workouts, their kids' Little League games, and yes, occasionally, sex, because they love programming. And they love being part of a global collaborative effort - Linux is the world's largest collaborative project - dedicated to building the best and most beautiful technology that is available to anyone who wants it. It's that simple. And it's fun.

The book was first published in 2001, and I can only assume that Wikipedia.org has taken Linux's place as the "largest collaborative project", but I honestly don't know (especially with such a subjective claim).
Let me add that I don't know a single phrase of programming (should I say "phrase"?) although I do remember a little HTML (for web design).

Written by choben at 06:49 PM.

*This is a manual import job from my old blog (linked above) now dedicated to tech-related stuff.*