Category: Featured

Goodbye 2022, and Looking forward to 2023

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

By lonm

My favorite Vivaldi extension

You can use any extension created for Chrome/Chromium with Vivaldi. I don't use many browser extensions, but the last one I installed, has quickly grown to be my absolute favorite.…

By Gaute Holmin

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 Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

Some Old Writing For You

The piece that follows is an old bit of writing and is still a bit rough though I did edit it some today before posting it.  It's fiction, of course.  I hope you'll find it entertaining.  If you would, please leave your…

By daletucker

Making a home in the fediverse?

One of the most interesting by-products of all the tussle that there was (and still is) following the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk… , with all the mess also derived from the incongruous moves of the well-known…

By mcastel

A solo traveller

I've been lucky in my life. Couple of marriages, five great kids, 4 grandkids (so far), blessed (still) with pretty good health, and mostly well rewarded financially for my work. Mind you, I spent too much of that,…

By travellinbob

The Importance of Being Original

Picked up "Waves" by Virginia Woolf from the library at work today. She has always been a favorite writer. Maybe because her voice is extremely original. The first time I read "Mrs. Dalloway" or "Orlando" I was rather…

By Lopamudra Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

The Axy icon and Me

The axolotl icon Is there anything harder than choosing a profile picture to succinctly represent your entire existence to the world at large? Well at least I struggle with it. Especially when my actual pictures are not…

By tecpiltic