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back to blogs
We got to go back to using the network, not the platforms. Publishing on the Internet has always had an appeal for me. 22 years ago I started using HTML editors to create my first web pages in the context of my work and for the owner of the stable where my wife had her riding horse. I then experimented with SPIP to create a school wiki, I used phpBB to run a school forum…
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wLOG_0A
So the health crisis provoqued by the novel coronavirus has indeed prevented me from my intention to blog on a regular weekly basis as I have already missed writing on two weekends. But then I read Amanda Palmer’s call on Patreon this morning and with then already around 400 comments I sat down to answer the following questions: where you are? city? country? how long you’ve been in lockdown? what are the rules? are they…
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wLOG_06
This week has shown the first signs of winter with enough snow falling last Wednesday to create even more traffic jams as usual on the Grand Duchy’s streets. As I am really not fond anymore of driving around on this country’s overcrowded roads let alone in dangerous conditions, I did not mind to see the rain already returning the next day. I am following the news closely through Twitter, podcasts and I subsequently read linked…
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Resumption
Feel the emptiness. I have not been able to write for 8 months. Not technically, of course. Still things have happened which I would have found worth blogging about. However, as 2019 marked the breakup of my 20-year-long marriage I had to sell the common house and move with Madog to an appartment. Unfortunately Madog was not allowed to accompany me longer in this new phase of my life, so that from then on I…
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log out
At the beginning of last year I deactivated my Facebook account. The information that I got flushed in my timeline just sucked most of the time. I had already quit commenting on a regular basis but daily kept flicking through the posts inside the filter bubble the algorithm had progressively built like an invisible shield around my account. The only solution to get rid of this unhealthy habit and stay away from the Social Network…
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Into the life
This morning when I opened my Feed Reader, I stumbled on this quote from the movie Into The Wild: I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess. – Carine McCandless (Jena Malone) Having read Pino’s review yesterday, I make a mental note of it as…
"And the meek shall inherit the earth."
