I’ve upgraded the blog software and updated the blog design, on first glance the new design may look almost the same as the old design just with a smaller page header like the rest of the site but actually the new design has some bigger changes.

First, if you are reading this on the web (as opposed to an RSS reader) you probably see the big box at the top telling you who I am and inviting you to subscribe to the RSS feed and follow me on twitter – this box will only appear the first 5 times you visit the blog (if you refresh 5 times it will go away).

Second, just after the text of every post you can see an improved “post to twitter” link (with a built in URL shortener) as well as links to e-mail the site or post it to delicious, digg, and .net kick.

You even have a short URL for every post just in case you need it.

If the blog doesn’t look good it’s possible you are seeing a combination of the new design with old files from your browser cache, if you refresh the page the problem should go away.

If you have any problems or comments on the new design just leave a comment on this post or use the contact form.

Yes, it’s ok to fail, it’s ok to make mistakes and it’s ok to throw away hard work because of your mistakes – it can even make you more productive.

We all learn from an early are that failure is bad and that avoiding failure is good – but that’s not always true, the hard truth is that avoiding failure isn’t productive work.

It’s easy to spend more time preventing failure than it would have taken to fail in the first place, when you are going to start a new project you can plan, analyze and research all aspects of the project, you can prepare detailed documents and make absolutely sure the project will succeed before starting – and then the project will either succeed because of your preparation or fail because of things behind your control (like a sudden world-wide recession).

On the other hand, you can cut the planning phase short and do only the most basic analysis in order to get the general idea about what the first phase of your project will look like and start working – this way you have a very good chance of failing because of mistakes you made – but you may just fail and move on the next project in less time than it would have taken you to complete the detailed plan.

In the end of the day you are much more likely to succeed by accomplishing more than by producing just one perfect project.