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I am a media asset manager, camera operator and more. I hike, cycle and climb in my free time. During the COVID-19 pandemic I am blogging on a daily basis to keep a record for future generations.

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  • Of Blogging and Substacking

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA month or two ago we had the chance to jump on the Substack wagon while it was hot and to ride the wave of new followers and experience a growing community. I could have joined in. I could have become one of those “I’m one of you people” but I didn’t. …

  • Application Programming Interfaces, Really Simple Syndication and the Open Protocols

    Reading Time: 3 minutesTwitter and Reddit want to charge people to use their API despite already wanting people to pay them directly. Twitter decided to drive users away and make itself more expensive. As a result of this the website is imploding, rather than thriving.  Yesterday I read that Reddit, too, wanted to charge users…

  • The Solitaire Puzzle

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I rediscovered my love of the game solitaire. It is the game we played on windows 3.1 and other windows operating systems, up to iOS and more. Solitaire is a simple game to play on a mobile phone, ipad or computer, whether laptop or desktop.  I have found that a game…

  • Playing with the Hugo With An Old Site

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a few days I have been playing with Hugo with Markdown and HTML pages. It says that it is “the world’s fastest framework for building websites” and so far I do notice that it has a key strength that I like.  Front Matter That strength is that with small modifications you…

  • The Pay To Play and Pay To Win iOS Games

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI like casual gaming. I like to play games on the iPhone when commuting or waiting for something to happen. The problem is that casual gaming is about seeing adverts at the end of every puzzle or challenge. For every game of solitaire, every game of Woodoku and more games, you see…

  • The Mindful Shave

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two weeks or so I have been using a safety razor rather than the usual electric shaver, or conventional three to four blade shavers. In the process I have had to become more attentive to what I am doing.  The Usual Shave With an electric razor you turn it on and…

  • On The Value of Not Being Anonymous on Social Media

    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years I felt comfortable tweeting as myself for two reasons. The fist reason is that we met up so often than tweeting under my actual name made sense. The second reason is that it was a network of friends of friends and we were seldom, if ever trolled. That changed during…

  • Twenty Seven Thousand Steps in BareFoot Shoes

    Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I took twenty seven thousand steps in barefoot shoes. My feet did not suffer at all from walking that far in such shoes. I did some of that walking in the vapor gloves and the rest in the Trail Gloves. The beauty of barefoot walking is that you…

  • Hiking in the Jura in Minimal Shoes

    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a short walk in the Jura with minimal shoes and I felt fine. The shoes, despite being thin soled, felt fine on the dry dirt paths. They do get wet when walking in dew covered grass but that’s what you would expect so that’s acceptable.  When you’re wearing…

  • Cycling from Nyon To Geneva and Back

    Reading Time: 2 minutesCatching the train to Geneva and back to Nyon costs about 14CHF per day, depending on whether you have paid 180 CHF for the half fare or not. In contrast two Continent GP 5000 tires cost about 110CHF and you can go to Geneva and back a few hundred times.  The loop…