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LiveJournal is still here, but how do we go forward?
There were rumours of a total disconnect of the Russian part of the internet. LiveJournal, which is owned by a Russian company and is hosted in Russia, would therefore also be unreachable. There was some panic and many people moved their journals to Dreamwidth. I was not that worried, as I blog on my own WordPress instance and only cross-post to LJ ( Read more... ) -
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Cookie Colleague
A few months ago, I was in a chat conversation with a colleague from support. I had helped her with a question, and then she closed off with the message that I should take a break because I worked so hard, and maybe have a snack. I thought that was a sweet thing to say. So we started chatting about snacks, which should not come as a surprise to ( Read more... ) -
RPGs as moral support
I don’t have much contact with former colleagues, but I do still play tabletop RPGs with the group we started back in early 2020. I’m currently running the Tales from Wilderland campaign for The One Ring for them, using first edition rules. We have players in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Russia.
Friday, we had another session. Of course, ( Read more... ) -
Sunday Five
1. What’s your favorite candle scent?
None. I am not a big fan of things that are artificially scented. The smells are often too strong for me.
2. Do you have an artistic or crafty hobby? What is it?
I guess bookbinding counts? Haven’t really picked up a project in a long time, though. But there is still that box that needs to be made for all the ( Read more... ) -
Cross-posting still works for me
I’ve seen reports that cross-posting from Dreamwidth to LiveJournal did not work anymore. My blog runs on WordPress on my own site, but I cross-post everything to my LiveJournal. I had not written an entry since I’ve seen those reports, so I did not know whether it would still work - but the entries still go up. So it’s not the API itself that was ( Read more... ) -
Finished Books: Gouden Jaren & Het Goede Leven
I borrowed these books from my father, and finished reading them some time ago: Gouden Jaren (“Golden Years”) and Het Goede Leven (“The Good Life”) by Annegreet van Bergen.
Van Bergen is an economist, and in these two books she shows how every-day life in the Netherlands changed between 1950 and 2000. In that period, average wealth increased four- ( Read more... ) -
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Finished book: Shinto from an international perspective
During our most recent trip to Japan, in 2019, we visited the Kanda shrine - it was on our way to the sake association’s tasting center 😉
Next to the shrine was a building with a ‘cultural space’: a cafe, a shop and an event space, clearly associated with the shrine. It was quite new - apparently the Kanda shrine featured in the anime Love Live!, ( Read more... ) -
Desk space rationalisation
So I ended up with three computers on my desk: my old desktop, the new Raspberry Pi 4 machine, and my work laptop. I had a little KVM switch that allowed me to switch a VGA and two USB devices (keyboard and mouse, obviously) with two machines. Which meant that if I wanted to use the third machine, I had to re-configure the whole cable mess on my ( Read more... )