I’ve been re-engaging with my blog, and the micro.blog community, over the past few days. Still the nicest place on the internet.
Severance S2E01 was weird! Not that I should be surprised by that.
I’m playing around with Pixelfed. Have set up my account and posted a single photo.
Good Friends and Dead Websites
Saturday, January 18, 2025
I’m really not qualified to own and manage a website. 🤷 In attempting to tweak a few things last night I broke everything. The site was down and dead. 💀 I was stuck. I couldn’t fix it. 😬 Enter my pal @Burk. While I slept in my Australian timezone, he worked to fix it in his US one. 🤖 Also enter micro.blog founder and owner @manton. He responded to my help email overnight and also worked on it like the internet greybeard wizard he is.
Blog Question Challenge 2025
Friday, January 17, 2025
Thanks for the tag, Gabz. Why did you start blogging in the first place? It is so long ago, it’s hard to remember why. Was there even a why? I was a nerd interested in technology, and blogs were the hot new thing. There was a cool platform called Movable Type and I wanted to try it out. So I started a blog. This was all a very long time ago.
I couldn’t be bothered walking back from the pub where I had dinner.
My 9-year old is asking how consoles work. This is testing my ability to teach computing hardware principles based on my knowledge that was established 30 years ago. Do I still talk CPU, GPU, RAM/ROM? HDD v SSD?
Our @hemisphericviews with a Tight 45 on the button for 2024.
Kung Fury, 2015 - ★★★★
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Funnier now than when I watched it on release.
Paddington in Peru, 2024 - ★★
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Lacked the charm of the earlier two. Perhaps it was the different Director.
Robot Dreams, 2023 - ★★★½
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Enjoy love where you find it and accept that things may change.
I had a foot massage today. I think it’s the first one I’ve ever had. It was nice - even the painful bits!
I See You, 2019 - ★★★
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
I chatted throughout, which might make it seem like I wasn’t into it, but I was into it! Although what has Helen Hunt done to her face?
My New Year’s resolution is not to change my PKM app stack for 12 months. OmniFocus plus Obsidian (work), DevonThink (home).
These are lovely words from Tim Klapdor about my podcast Hemispheric Views.
Hemispheric Views:This is the only “guys having a chat” podcast in my feed. I really enjoy the dynamic of these guys and the community they’ve built around them. Recommend: The Battle of the Defaults and the App Defaults craze it created is a great place to start.
The Lighthouse, 2019 - ★★
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
What the fuck did I just watch?
It’s not everyday that you see a home perfectly framed by a rainbow.
Happy Birthday Booji!
9 years old today. My, how time flies!
Norwegians FTW
Monday, December 9, 2024
Norwegians are the best. Listeners of Hemispheric Views will already know of the esteem in which I hold fürstenberg; who is essentially Norwegian me. We have many similarities across our respective histories; it’s quite fun! Now, I’ve got another Norwegian to thank: Erland. I discovered Erland through Mastodon, I think. Although he also has a micro.blog site, so it could have been there. Like myself, Erland also seems to have an interest in notetaking apps, and his favourite is Paper.
Defaults (2024)
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
It has been more than a year since Episode 097 of my podcast Hemispheric Views, where we held a Duel of the Defaults! competition. Others have been updating their lists, one year on. It seems appropriate that I should do the same. If there is a change from my list last year, I’ve indicated it with a leading ✨. Change? Category Default Comment on Change ✨ Mail Client FMail2 & Apple Mail Back to FMail2 app & no more MailMate Mail Server Fastmail & Apple Mail ✨ Notes Obsidian for Work; Apple Notes for Home Different apps for different contexts To-Do OmniFocus iPhone Photo Shooting Camera.