Richard’s Blog, blogging since 1996
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Aerating Manure
Today I saw a strange machine so I stopped to watch it in action. It went over a pile of manure and flipped it around to get air through the pile to help with the forming of fresh manure to spread on fields shortly.
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Spring
25,000 steps in a day.
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Thoughts On Decentralised Social Media
The web was decentralised for a long time. The internet and social networks were designed around different niches. We had niches for people that did sports in the same area of Switzerland, that wanted to discuss a variety of topics, for music lovers and more. The change brought on by MySpace, Twitter, ICQ, Facebook and […]
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A Rainy Day
I hate pandemic weekends because out of pandemic I would be free to do a lot. In pandemic I am not free to do those things. I will write longer posts when i regain my healthy solitude. Recently I have started forgetting my phone at home when I go out. I use it to take […]
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Ail Des Ours
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A Different Challenge
I like the long project but I decided to try a shorter one first.
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Garmin Expedition Challenges
Garmin have had challenges for years. Most of them have been about distance, or vertical climbing. Now they have new Expedition challenges. Each expedition is named after an expedition or adventure by the same name. The Camino De Santiago challenge is a challenge to walk 784 kilometres. The Denali challenge is to climb 6190m. There […]
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The Immature Coming of Age of Social Media
Around a decade and a half ago I grew tired of seeing blog headlines that said “The top ten blah blah”, “Three signs that …” and more. It grew tiring to see all those headlines, to a point where it generated the term clickbait. The idea of a headline being written to attract people to […]
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Reading to Understand The Past
When I read books i read to be transported back to a different time and a different way of thinking. That’s why i read James Bond books, among others. The books are old-fashioned but it is that obsolescence that makes them interesting. They take us to a time before travel as we know it today. […]
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Twenty One Thousand Five Hundred Steps and A Wind That Plays The Harmonica
Today I could have taken the scooter to some shops but I went for a walk. The result of that walk is that I reached twenty one thousand five hundred steps. I often take a lot of steps per day. I wish I was walking somewhere more interesting than in circles. According to Sports tracker […]