Category: Switzerland

  • Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

    Twitter X-Roads – Twitter Crossroad

    Reading Time: 2 minutes With the change in name from Twitter to X, and with the destruction of a recognisable brand mentioned in tens of thousands of podcasts, podcasts, episodes and millions of web pages I was curious to see how Twitter was, with the new logo. It took more than 24 hours to change…

  • Disinformation and Education – Social Media and AI

    Disinformation and Education – Social Media and AI

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Disinformation and misinformation work for a very simple reason. People who did not study history, and do not follow current affairs do not have the background information to spot what is true from what is untrue. They are unable to use history’s lessons to see the warning signs and act accordingly.…

  • Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

    Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Originally I wanted to write about following route 50 from one village to RomainmΓ΄tier. I changed my mind as I created the title for this post. An old pickup truck and bike Yesterday I cycled with two people on electric bikes on my normal bike. I didn’t feel that I was…

  • Youth πŸ˜‰

    Reading Time: < 1 minute What do you think gets better with age? The older you get the more appreciate that you were once young.

  • Social Networks

    Social Networks

    Reading Time: 5 minutes Before 2006 we talked about social networks. it’s only with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram that the idea of social media emerged. With it came a golden age of online communities where Facebook was for Uni students to keep in contact with each other, Twitter was to microblog about project progress and…

  • Threads And Europe

    Threads And Europe

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday Facebook, discguised as meta, and Meta, diguised as Instagram launched Threads. Threads is meant to be a twitter competitor. The paradox is that Facebook has always been a twitter competitor, and this has become more evident with every iteration of both social networks. It is paradoxical that Facebook would need…

  • The Second Test

    Reading Time: < 1 minute I am an excerpt. I think I will appear as text in the post, below the heading.

  • The Mastodon Post Test

    The Mastodon Post Test

    Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a test to see whether I can write a blog post that appears on mastodon.social.

  • Playing With Hugo – Continued

    Playing With Hugo – Continued

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday I decided to write a blog post using Hugo and HTML rather than markdown and it worked fine. I was able to write the post, checked that everything was displaying properly, and then noticed that with HTML the theme I am using does not detect section headings. Markdown Behaviour With…

  • Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

    Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

    Reading Time: 3 minutes Since 2006 I have been using Twitter every single day for several hours a day, reading up to ten thousand posts per day. Every time it failed I would know about it. Weeks ago I decided to stop using Twitter, so when it fails I read about it in articles. I…