Exciting Colnect news - API and Plans

This blog post might be somewhat different as I seldom write much about Colnect on this more personal blog. However, since we settled down for a bit in Pai, I was able to focus more efforts into planning Colnect's future. The future's looking bright and I'm adding a blog post here so that if any of you actually sees an opportunity here, you won't be scared to contact me about it.

Beautiful flower coming out of a twig that could otherwise have seemed lifeless

Today I've announced publicly Colnect's API which I think is a fantastic idea. I really don't know why I haven't done it before and an API is the best way any application can develop quickly and to many directions previously not considered. My programming abilities are limited as I'm just one person but with an API other people can take over and develop more things using Colnect's infrastructure. IMO having open APIs is one of the things that made FaceBook so successful as its core functionality was extended by third parties. Google often offers APIs to their products to improve them and increase third parties dependency on Google services. So if you have an idea to rock the collectors world, now's a good time to read about Colnect's API and get it touch :)

In addition to this development, I've finally resolved some load balancing issues that addressed the growing traffic to Colnect. The catalogs are growing and, with more requests from the community, they're becoming more professional and organized over time. Amazing to see how a dedicated community is built over a great hobby that connects people the world over.

Transportation for pigs - I feel pain and disgust seeing how humans treat animals almost anywhere in the world. But hey, someone has to feed all those meat-eaters so some abuse is fine, right? Well, not to me. We don't have to do it, we choose to do it although human survival would be better without abusing and consuming the results of abuse.

On a personal note, life in Pai is going on great. Many great restaurants with delicious vegan dishes at a short walking distance. Not that it doesn't take an effort to explain that an egg or shrimp is something I don't want to eat, but altogether we get great yummy things. Nature is so beautiful and inspiring here and at least a few daily minutes to appreciate it help recharge some more happiness in. Our apartment treats us well, now that we've finally managed to resolve the Internet-connection related issues and can surf quickly and smoothly.

Free the Frog Within YOU

With the tendency to visit my room and find themselves in the most unlikely places, cute little frogs have managed to trap themselves in places where they'd starve to death. Here's one frog I released back into the Goan wild, if u can call it that :)



All these recent posts were made at the same time and planned to be published with a few days difference so that you'd actually put a bit of your time to read them. A few minutes of your day to remember those who sacrifice themselves for their startup by leaving their home, family and best friends to concentrate on working towards a new world order, at least for collectors :)

The Good Samaritan Day

It's been a while since my last blog post and that's because I don't see you commenting here. I figured nobody reads what I write and gave it a rest. Then a few of my friends were asking why I'm not putting anything new... OK, here goes...



So yesterday seems to have been full of good deeds for me. Don't know why, I'm a horrible person on a regular basis. It started with a simple thing of letting a Czech neighbour recharge his Kindle using my laptop and continued with me playing happy birthday to a South African girl who just turned 30. I then managed to sadden her by asking a question that likely reminded her of some bad times in her life. I did apologize though.

My next good deed was already at night time on my way back to my coconut hut. I've decided to move from the splendid room I had in Palolem to a shabby coconut hut as the former was approximately 3 minutes walk to the beach and the current is about 20 seconds walk. While some of you may not appreciate the difference that makes, it does. Here it's easier to be social. There was easier to be secluded.

So anyway, on my way back to the room these two Israeli girls I probably saw before heard me speaking Hebrew and turned around to ask me if I can help them. Their pictures, transferred from their camera's SD card to their USB Disk-On-Key, were scrambled. Don't know why really but they weren't copied properly but were deleted from the SD. Damn, not fun to lose pictures. They were quite upset about it.

Following some trials I managed to undelete most of the pictures from their SD card and as such was granted with praises as me being their prince and I should marry them as well as promises that they'll do anything I wanted. As my back hurts often, sitting all day working in front of the computer, I was shooting (perhaps too high) for a massage. No, not a full body one, just a plain one. Was likely too much for them. They offered me breakfast at some place I wouldn't wanna eat breakfast in but I chose to accept their gratitude. Altogether was a nice late breakfast.



On the bright side, following a Skype video conversation with my brother and my close friend, I went out with them to explore the beach. Palolem doesn't have much night life nowadays. Really not the same Palolem I stayed in over a month about 5 years ago. We saw a bonfire. I saw balloons. There were only an English couple there and the woman asked me to join in and play guitar. As bonfires are often a good thing, we sat down and saw I managed to do another good deed by playing nice nightly music to her boyfriend, celebrating his 47th birthday, and us.



Sitting by the bonfire was nice and more people tagged along as often is the case. My Czech neighbour, two German guys and about seven English teenagers doing what English teenagers seem to do so well in Palolem: drink loads of alcohol and talk loudly. Altogether a nice group formed and the night was pleasant.

So as a bit of a summary, although I am focus on my work on Colnect here, it's good that I can go for an occasional swim and play guitar by the moonlight and waves.

Controlling Colnect from Hampi

Well, I don't write much on this blog and prefer to let you enjoy the pictures. I've recently bought with a hosting provider in Germany. They now replace the setup Colnect had before in the US. Speed should be REALLY improved and, amusingly enough, it's going to cost much less.








So yes, I've managed, with the help of my dear brother Ofer, to setup servers in Germany and make Colnect move to them. All that from an Internet Cafe that has no cafe but rather small gadflies that go directly to one's eyes and can get quite irritating. In addition, considering the kid of one of the operators here that never speaks but always screams horrible. I was sure it's a girl till I saw him without underwear today.

Yesterday we took Frognector for some new shootings in the area. A few of the results are here.

(: Happy Bar-Mitzvah to my beloved nephew Raziel!!! :)