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Category: Swiss walks

  • 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…

  • On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

    On The Any Distance – Workout Tracker

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI watched the Apple keynote and thought “This is demonstrating a dystopia, with the Pure Vision Goggles, rather than a eutopia. A dystopia where everyone is alone, working in VR, rather than surrounded by people. The dystopia continued on with an app. In the age of two factor authentication they want to authenticate…

  • Driving the Microlino OnThe Outskirts of Geneva

    Driving the Microlino OnThe Outskirts of Geneva

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Microlino is made by the same people that made the trottinette that I loved getting around with when I was unable to drive for a month due to overtaking a slow moving vehicle where I had plenty of visibility.  The beauty of the Microlino is that it’s a small light weight…

  • Time Spent being Social

    Time Spent being Social

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesWho do you spend the most time with? Before the pandemic, it would have been the climbing, hiking and diving friends. I would meet them every week, year round. it was a strong group of peopla and I liked to see them.  Adventure Groups It is with this group of people that…

  • Music Festivals, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sleep Deprivation

    Music Festivals, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sleep Deprivation

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst things First, I have had a lot of fun at festivals, and I have volunteered for a few. What I object to is the noise pollution. In the 21st century we could avoid that noise pollution, so we should. And now for the rant, now that I have told you I…

  • One Hundred and thirty Two Kilometres in Trail Gloves

    One Hundred and thirty Two Kilometres in Trail Gloves

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIn theory shoes are meant to last for eight hundred kilometres before they need to be replaced. I am now one eighth of the way towards needing to replace my Trail Gloves. In theory.  In practice the left shoe is worn and the tread is gone, in two spots. The toes, where…

  • Of Blogging and Substacking

    Of Blogging and Substacking

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    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. …