Management

Management.
What does that word mean to you? To manage. According to webster it is like "to act of supervising something.". Generally speaking this can be divided to "matter management", which can be thought of like managing the service as ownership level and being responsible on it, then other part is people management, meaning handling tables for the people doing the actual work.
somehow this is the most difficult part of mgmt.
People in mgmt positions think as per their position they know more than the persons "below" them. Why it is so? is it due to old thinking of when baron was looking over the employees in factory? or what? in ideal place the people manager shines through his/her people. But still it seems so hard to this manager to understand that the role is only about creating situations where the subordinates can do the actual content work. In this case people manager gets appraisal of having such people on his/her team.
Still, the components for effective people management are so simple, yet not used. What causes people in manager position to dismiss subordinate being better than the manager? Is it something the society has grown up, or something related to self-growth? Let me know your thoughts.

Blogging

Delays.
Seems that after initial "excitement" the tempo for posting stuff is normally going lower. Multiple reasons might be a) nobody commenting b)not feeling to "burst" c)is blogging only for eccentric people?
anyways blogging has shown that quite much everyone is a content producer - where that will bring newspapers, as people blog of things happening faster than papers normally, and link to other information. Guess one big thing is the valuability - not necessarily a word but as amount of information grows, the value of integrity and correctness also grow. How big mass of people one can effect with just adjusted information? Check the movie called "wag the dog", and you get the point.

open the source

Something different.
So, it is the midsummer-festival around. Generically speaking this just means reason to get drunk for many people, not actual festival that it used to be.
Anyways, as a hobby, I keep up certain website...it is using "open source"/free/whatever CMS to manage the content. One difference for commercial CMS so far has been that commercial ones typically have been more secure. Secure in this case meaning not so much holes on application layer. Of course one can dispute that with source I can check the bugs myself - pfft, I would rather spend my time better than reading the sourcecode and fixing annoying amount of bugs. Like developing new features (of course securely) for users.
Oh well.

id and identity

Settling in.
I originally thought to be prepared on moving the new town etc. Read load of material what had been done by others who did the same earlier, and also called different officials.
And then I woke up. Things that I assumed being so self-evident were not so, suprises on many things, no real static way of doing, regardless what was supposed to be official way.
Getting an ID took like 4 months. That caused some problems as well. After that, it was revealed country even tightened the getting of ID - should have relatives or marry one before getting it. We'll see when the time comes...
Workwise some suprises as well. Why is it so that agreed things are so hard to keep? It certainly does not create trust, and "nikenet" radio will inform others about things. This has made me even more cynical than I was, and I will keep even more care right in a beginning on next possible job, bored to struggle months.

Change redux

Slight delay...
So, was the change beneficial?
Yes and no. The first months, job was not what it was promised to be but quite the contrary - it was everything that was not promised, but I really liked the change, and new country. Most challenges came to learn the system, so to speak.
During the time, I have been able to show things happening if just having a possibility to do those, which has created me better possibilities to do stuff - why it wasn't it the beginning then? was it growth pain of company? was it being immigrant? was it the three monkey - syndrome?
At couple times, I was wanting to move back, change employment as not wanting to waste years anymore, but found some confidence through talking to some key people. And did not want to came back to old employer when knowing the situation, had multiple offers from different companies though.
Currently feeling optimistic though. One unfortunate lesson was that one cannot really trust what was agreed, and having a need to guide things going there.