# personal note (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 7 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover personal note. Page: Feed: --- ## [Check Out My Two New TeePublic Designs](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/check-out-my-two-new-teepublic-designs/) _2026-08-18 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, Check out my two new designs on TeePublic here https://www.teepublic.com/user/jeff-colburn-photography If you hate flock cameras, then this one is for you. And if you believe that every day can be amazing, check this one out. From August 19-23, you can receive up to 40% off on these, and all, of my designs. Have \[…\] ## [Note 1 from 2026-08-18](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-08-18-note-1) _2026-08-18 · Athena's blog_ Currently working out the kinks in a tampermonkey userscript to clean up the empty paragraphs AO3's WYSIWYG unintentionally encourages authors to put in between every actual text paragraph. If I get it working reliably would anyone be interested in it? ## [Business Photography Tip 13 – Pillows](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/business-photography-tip-13-pillows/) _2026-08-17 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, Check out my latest YouTube Short video, “Business Photography Tip 13 – Pillows” here https://youtu.be/ZUivqDsrJj8 This YouTube short tells how to promote your business with pillows. Yes, pillows. You can see all of my videos on my YouTube channel, Jeff Colburn Fine Art Photography, at https://www.youtube.com/@jeffcolburnfineartphotography Have Fun, Jeff ## [Note 1 from 2026-08-17](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-08-17-note-1) _2026-08-17 · Athena's blog_ Trying to write a CSS selector and catching myself thinking XPath could do this no problem I'm so normal. ## [The Number One Country People are Choosing to Retire to](https://sagejustice.substack.com/p/the-number-one-country-people-are) _2026-08-16 · 🔥Sage Justice🔥 · Sage Words_ My blood is thick like honey in this island heat. I need the bitter pill of baby aspirin to thin both it … and my foreign tongue. Garlic dilutes the blood, maybe that’s why the ancestors infused it into Mediterranean food; to… ## [Week Note Nº 33/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/33/) _2026-08-16 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 33 of 2026 ## [“I’m someone who thinks in seasons”: Stefanie O’Connell on her career as a writer](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/stefanie-o-connell) _2026-08-12 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ In this podcast interview, Stefanie discusses building a career through cold emailing, the strategy she used to grow her widely popular Instagram to over 94,000 followers and sell her first book, seeing peers as collaborators instead of... ## [Loneliness](https://sagejustice.substack.com/p/loneliness) _2026-08-12 · 🔥Sage Justice🔥 · Sage Words_ …and the cure? ## [Have You Earned Your Right to Live?](https://sagejustice.substack.com/p/have-you-earned-your-right-to-live) _2026-08-10 · 🔥Sage Justice🔥 · Sage Words_ Caring for the Caregiver ## [Week Note Nº 32/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/32/) _2026-08-09 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 32 of 2026 ## [Trade Bitcoin and Ethereum Today (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/7l0nA3sD1RBF) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Buy, sell, and margin trade BTC and ETH with EUR, USD, CAD, GBP, or JPY. ## [Note 1 from 2026-08-07](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-08-07-note-1) _2026-08-07 · Athena's blog_ All large file downloads should be done over BitTorrent. I'm right about this. ## [On Terence Tao's chat: the prompt engineering era is over](https://mutto.fyi/posts/2026/08/jacobian-conjecture-chat/) _2026-08-06 · My notes_ ## [Week Note Nº 31/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/31/) _2026-08-02 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 31 of 2026 ## [“I set out to define my own values”: Helen Betya Rubinstein on her career as an author and writing coach](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/helen-betya-rubinstein) _2026-07-29 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ In this interview, Helen discusses how she accidentally stumbled into her current job, why changing her ideas about achievement is what she’s most proud of achieving, her most important condition for... ## [Note 1 from 2026-07-27](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-27-note-1) _2026-07-27 · Athena's blog_ When you tell a computer to do something, the computer should either do it, or it should tell you why it did not do it. If what happens is neither of these, there has been an engineering failure. ## [Week Note Nº 30/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/30/) _2026-07-26 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 30 of 2026 ## [Now 2026/07/26](https://fundor333.com/now/2026/07/26/2026-07-26/) _2026-07-26 · Fundor333_ Photography With my Canon camera I am going to some ComicCon near my place and taking a lot of photo of cosplayers. Some of them are share in my Cosplays’ Instagram Account . I have also a FujiFilm Camera and I make some Urban Photography and post here in this site and some of them I share in my Personal Instagram Account . I also made some edit but nothing I wish to share for now. I have a… ## [“I’ve been working on this for months”: The Postscript ep. 4](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/the-postscript-ep-4) _2026-07-23 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ A personal note from me, with an update on my move to Croatia + a behind-the-scenes on my conversations with Candice, Alissa, and Sophie ## [Standing Up Alone - In Piedi da Solo](https://fundor333.com/micro/2026/07/standing-up-alone/) _2026-07-20 · Fundor333_ And the next month I will have a little photographic exhibition in Venice, Italy. Here the flyer for the exhibition and here is the link at the webpage ## [Week Note Nº 29/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/29/) _2026-07-19 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 29 of 2026 ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/asGb8KOQCXRg) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [“I wake up excited”: Sophie Grégoire Trudeau on her career as an author and mental health advocate](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/sophie-gregoire-trudeau) _2026-07-15 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ In this podcast interview, Sophie discusses the new chapter unfolding in her fifties, her daily practice of tracking micro-successes, the difference between breaking and being broken open, how she decides which opportunities to pursue and… ## [Week Note Nº 28/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/28/) _2026-07-12 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 28 of 2026 ## [Note 1 from 2026-07-11](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-11-note-1) _2026-07-11 · Athena's blog_ Occasionally I get really melancholy about spaceflight. I feel like we've mostly gone backwards this century. I'll see a picture of a Space Shuttle in a museum and despite all the realities I'm aware of I'll still want to tell her I'm sorry, you deserve to fly. ## [Note 1 from 2026-07-10](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-10-note-1) _2026-07-10 · Athena's blog_ According to its latest release notes, the QBE compiler backend now has support for shared libraries on most targets. Hopefully, this means the Hare programming language will get this support too soon, which would resolve one of my major gripes with it. ## [Microsoft, Copilot, and how to add friction](https://mutto.fyi/posts/2026/07/microsoft-copilot/) _2026-07-09 · My notes_ ## [The Tipping Point](https://sagejustice.substack.com/p/the-tipping-point) _2026-07-07 · 🔥Sage Justice🔥 · Sage Words_ Tipping culture has gone from earned to entitled- this is how we balance the scales ## [It’s Time For A Change](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/its-time-for-a-change/) _2026-07-07 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, One thing that is in everyone’s life is change. That includes me, and I’m making a change. I will no longer be posting articles or YouTube shorts every Thursday. I’m so busy with photography and writing projects that I have to cut back. So now, I’ll be posting an article, or long YouTube \[…\] ## [Note 1 from 2026-07-06](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-06-note-1) _2026-07-06 · Athena's blog_ I have enough projects I do not need to suddenly learn to solder and write Z80 assembly to build an RC2014 memex that is a deeply impractical proposition. ## [Week Note Nº 27/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/27/) _2026-07-05 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 27 of 2026 ## [Note 1 from 2026-07-05](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-05-note-1) _2026-07-05 · Athena's blog_ Mildly interesting metrological fact: The lost, could-have-been metric unit of time, the duration equal to one half the period of a pendulum of length one metre in standard gravity, is extremely close to the second: It's about 1.0032 seconds. ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ufihYIUKzdgL) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [Note 2 from 2026-07-04](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-04-note-2) _2026-07-04 · Athena's blog_ Annoying telephony people by insisting on calling PBXes "phone servers." ## [Note 1 from 2026-07-04](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-07-04-note-1) _2026-07-04 · Athena's blog_ Oh, Panasonic is Matsushita. I… didn't know that before today. Huh. ## [“I knew I would need to be my own safety net”: Alissa Wilkinson on her career as a movie critic and author](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/alissa-wilkinson) _2026-07-02 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ In this interview, Alissa discusses realizing she wanted something other than the 9-to-5 corporate life, how she made the transition from freelance writer to full-time staff writer, the most valuable thing… ## [Note 1 from 2026-06-30](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-06-30-note-1) _2026-06-30 · Athena's blog_ Username: Enter your account name in this box. Password: Enter your password in this box. For security, the password characters will be replaced by dots. Remember me: This check box has no effect. ## [Week Note Nº 26/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/26/) _2026-06-28 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 26 of 2026 ## [Stop Letting it Slide](https://sagejustice.substack.com/p/stop-letting-it-slide) _2026-06-27 · 🔥Sage Justice🔥 · Sage Words_ Denial is Killing Your Courage and Keeping You Victimized ## [Microstock Photography Tip 13 – Start Small](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/microstock-photography-tip-13-start-small/) _2026-06-26 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, Check out my latest YouTube Short video, “Microstock Photography Tip 13 – Start Small” here https://youtu.be/gIOE5sHeiMo This YouTube short tells you how to start out in microstock, and how to find what images to submit. You can see all of my videos on my YouTube channel, Jeff Colburn Fine Art Photography, at https://www.youtube.com/@jeffcolburnfineartphotography \[…\] ## [Week Note Nº 25/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/25/) _2026-06-21 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 25 of 2026 ## [“Mommy Issues”](https://sagejustice.substack.com/p/mommy-issues) _2026-06-21 · 🔥Sage Justice🔥 · Sage Words_ How Unchecked Female Misogyny Sabotages the Sisterhood ## [Beware – DIY Backgrounds For Tabletop Photography](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/beware-diy-backgrounds-for-tabletop-photography/) _2026-06-19 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, A couple of weeks ago I had a blog post talking about how to find, buy or make backgrounds for tabletop photos. Since then, I gave a few of the DIY options a try and thought I would pass along my experience, to save you time and money. Foam Board Foam Board is \[…\] ## [“I didn’t figure it out till I was 40”: Candice Wuehle on her career as a novelist and cultural critic](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/candice-wuehle) _2026-06-18 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ In this interview, Candice discusses what it’s like to have an essay go viral, why she still prioritizes saying ‘yes’ to most opportunities, how she found success on Substack, her unexpected transition from… ## [Week Note Nº 24/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/24/) _2026-06-14 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 24 of 2026 ## [Business Photography Tip 12 – Sticky Notes](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/business-photography-tip-12-sticky-notes/) _2026-06-12 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, Check out my latest YouTube Short video, “Business Photography Tip 12 – Sticky Notes” here https://youtu.be/xLDBw9EIZhw This YouTube short tells how Sticky Notes can be us for promotion. You can see all of my videos on my YouTube channel, Jeff Colburn Fine Art Photography, at https://www.youtube.com/@jeffcolburnfineartphotography Have Fun, Jeff ## [“Everything was building to this”: The Postscript ep. 3](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/the-postscript-ep-3) _2026-06-11 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ A personal note from me, with an update on my move to Croatia + a behind-the-scenes on my conversations with Sara, Claire, and Allison ## [Note 1 from 2026-06-09](https://www.alm.website/blog/2026-06-09-note-1) _2026-06-09 · Athena's blog_ One of my life goals is to someday forget how US Customary units work. ## [Week Note Nº 23/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/23/) _2026-06-07 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 23 of 2026 ## [Backgrounds For Tabletop Photography](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/backgrounds-for-tabletop-photography/) _2026-06-05 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, I’m getting ready to do a lot more tabletop photography of products and drinks. My biggest challenge, without spending a ton of money, is getting backgrounds for beneath and behind the products. I’m going to share what I’ve found, from free to expensive. Free Look around your house. Do you have furniture with \[…\] ## [“I decided to upend my very stable life”: Allison T. Butler on her career as an author and lecturer](https://womenofletters.substack.com/p/allison-t-butler) _2026-06-04 · Jana M. Perkins, PhD · Women of Letters_ In this interview, Allison discusses the life lessons she’s learned from those who taught her how not to behave, why she reads everything from YA fiction to highbrow classics, having felt unhappy despite... ## [Week Note Nº 22/2026](https://fundor333.com/weeknotes/2026/22/) _2026-05-31 · Fundor333_ Personal notes for week 22 of 2026 ## [Microstock Photography Tip 12 – Networking](https://www.jeffcolburn.com/microstock-photography-tip-12-networking/) _2026-05-29 · adminjc · Jeff Colburn Photography_ Hi Everyone, Check out my latest YouTube Short video, “Microstock Photography Tip 12 – Networking” here https://youtube.com/shorts/vnJae95\_pVY You can also hear my voice as I’m now reading the text in the video. This YouTube short tells you about a great way to network with other photographers to increase your income and visibility. You can see \[…\]