Category: Featured

A New Monarch Appears

A few days ago Linda noticed a green chrysalis on the side of our chiminea. Today when she checked it, the butterfly had already emerged.…

By robrose

Golden Hour on the Fence

Photo: 'Golden Hour on the Fence' - Copyright 2015 Frank J Casella…

By fjcasella

Libraries Should be a Home for the Cloud

Throughout history the library has been a place for the masses to get free access to information and to help grow their abilities, their culture, their knowledge. I think they would be a perfect home for the…

By lonm

The moon of Makemake

There is a whole world, besides the small cabotage of classical astronomy, that of a school textbook. And that's exactly what fascinates me most. I'm curious about what is in the shade, what is not in the spotlight. We…

By mcastel

Give your Vivaldi Social profile some love!

Personally, I love a good profile page. When I decide if I want to follow someone or not, I always look at their profile page, and I often change my own profile. Here are some thoughts on how and why you should change…

By Gaute Holmin

How to use IFTTT to integrate the Vivaldi blog (Wordpress) with Vivaldi Social (Mastodon)

When you write a blog post, you want to tell your followers that you've written it. You can do that automatically with IFTTT. This guide works with any Wordpress site and any Mastodon instance, but I'm using the Vivaldi…

By Gaute Holmin

Goodbye 2022, and Looking forward to 2023

Happy New Year. Bonne Année. あけましておめでとう.…

By lonm

Graphic Designers Rely on Hierarchy

Graphic Designers Rely on Hierarchy for Impactful Results…

By maxcompose

Gmail has a spam problem

Or rather, the rest of us have a Gmail spam problem… When running a small mail service, one thing that requires the most effort is making sure your outgoing mail is deliverable. When delivering to certain big mail…

By Thomas Pike

Getting Ready For New Years Eve

The weather is going to be awesome for New Years Eve and New Years Day with highs in the upper 80's. That means we will be celebrating the arrival of the new year sitting around a fire on the patio with the accompanying…

By robrose

Cafe Society

My morning constitutional took me four kilometres or so today, through often ankle deep but everywhere melting snow and grubby slush, down the main road that runs past my apartment block to the Metro station at the end…

By travellinbob

Old Posts from an Old Blog

Sharing a couple of posts from an old blog that was secretly hidden somewhere in this big virtual world. Managed to resurrect it from the ashes of the obscure and the decadent. These are disjointed writings. They are…

By Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay