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It’s 4.45am, and the coffee machine is brewing. I make myself some toast and sit down at my laptop to read my RSS feeds. For now, that’s my only remaining connection to the internet aside from doing research. I’ve left my beloved Mastodon timeline behind. Even though Mastodon gets a lot right, it’s still a social network with an endless feed that makes me constantly check my phone, and I don’t…
I’m sitting at my desk with two monitors in front of me, each connected to a laptop. Since I have another four minutes until my next call, I’ve just opened my RSS reader at 32bit.cafe and started reading a post by Joel that links to Syl’s original post. I like the idea, so I start writing. To my left, I can see the garden. Much as I like it, it's causing me a lot of problems right now and is the…
...and that's why I want to share this little story. My godmother died two days ago. She had been in poor health for quite some time, and in the end, it was a relief. My godmother was a nun and lived in a convent. She started out as a nurse, then trained as a teacher and later ran a children's home. We visited her several times a year, and for me it was always a completely different world.…
The internet is increasingly becoming a physical place for me in the form of a desktop PC that is at least 13 years old, which I found in our basement when we moved. It is connected to an old 22-inch monitor, a Logitech 2.1 sound system, a keyboard, and a mouse, all via cables. Bluetooth is foreign to this device. At first, I wanted to dispose of the old computer, but I'm glad I didn't. Instead, I…
small cypress came up with the idea of doing a smallweb month and it's a great idea. Today is day three and I have to say that I'm totally in. I'm only browsing the web on my old HP mini netbook from 2010. Yes, it's unbelievable slow but I'm enjoying it. I can only do one thing at a time and it really slows me down. This evening I read all the post in liferea and suddenly I was done. No automatic…
Niklaus Wirth died 01.01.2024. I had to learn Pascal in school, and I don't know how many semicolons I've forgotten ;) Last year I discussed with an old friend if we should play around with Pascal again. I also installed Free Pascal, but didn't get started.
A new one, another attempt to start blogging, move on and start again. I don't know why now, but I've realized over the last year that blogs are still my favorite medium on this internet and not much else is left of the once glorious promise of the free web for all. I am looking for a virtual place to collect my thoughts and ideas, to make them findable again and possibly also to persist them.…