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Category: Switzerland

  • Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

    Cycling With Different Levels of Fitness

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesOriginally I wanted to write about following route 50 from one village to Romainmôtier. I changed my mind as I created the title for this post. Yesterday I cycled with two people on electric bikes on my normal bike. I didn’t feel that I was making that great an effort, especially since…

  • Youth 😉

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

  • Social Networks

    Social Networks

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    Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore 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 more,…

  • Threads And Europe

    Threads And Europe

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday 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 threads,…

  • The Second Test

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

  • The Mastodon Post Test

    The Mastodon Post Test

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis 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

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday 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 Markdown…

  • Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

    Luxurious Indifference – Watching Twitter Fail, as a Passerby

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesSince 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 am…

  • The WordPress Fediverse Instance. 

    The WordPress Fediverse Instance. 

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesFor weeks, or even months, I have had the activitypub plugin installed on my blog and after the creator of that plugin asked us to check how many friends we had I noticed that my wordpress blog was working as a Fediverse instance.  What This Means When I noticed that my blog…

  • Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

    Flawed Thinking and Cleaning

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    Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Unilateral Solution I stopped making a mess because I came up with unillateral solutions, until I found the ideal one. I experimented with skewers to remove the mud from shoes, I experimented with rubber boots that I could rinse under a tap. I tried with spare shoes in the letter box. …