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These are a few of my Favorite Things...

What does a writer need? Apart from words of course. And apart from the fact that the need to write is the dominant passion that regulates his or her life. That the need to express unsaid words and sentiments is perhaps…

By Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

Tech musings from an Old Fart

That Community Spirit…

By travellinbob

Why privacy matters.

We've been through this already. You've either read or passed articles on why we should care, always with the same flavor, always done in the same way. But let me present a different take. …

By atsecbayz

My Current Work: "Datesville — Out of the Land of Bondage!"

My current work is a dystopian novel, set in the year 2068 titled: Datesville; Out of the Land of Bondage!  A so called "Grand Depression" has engulfed the United States of America since 2029, almost forty years, and it…

By daletucker

The History of an Idea — Part 1

A few years ago I had a rather vivid dream.  And when I awoke, I remembered its details clearly and I thought about it a lot.  It prompted the setting for the scene which I've included below.  So rather than describe my…

By daletucker

My plans on YouTube & this related career

I recently have bought a used Geforce GTX 970 and was able to upload a video awhile ago. It was mainly about a video game where I grab blocks which are magnets and solve the puzzles by controlling the positive and…

By tetrashot7

Wanderlust Chronicles: Chapter 1 - A World of Possibilities

In the quaint town of Solville, nestled between rolling hills and gentle streams, Andrew's yearning for adventure grew stronger every day. His room, adorned with travel posters and memorabilia from distant lands, bore…

By nghtwlkr

That black X that 'killed' the blue bird

I don't like it, I have to say. I don't like. Twitter has changed profoundly. It's changing before my eyes. It's no longer him. Even the name is going to change.…

By mcastel

I've got mail . . . Now what?

Yesterday, just before calling it a day, I discovered I had a new shiny on my Vivaldi.net account page. Webmail had arrived!…

By net8763

What happened to Vivaldi Social?

On Saturday 8 July 2023, user accounts started disappearing from the Vivaldi Social Mastodon instance. What was going on, how did this happen, and what were the…

By Thomas Pike

Mystical Graubünden

A couple of days ago I voyaged through the eastern alpine area of Switzerland, a place less known and quite exclusive. The following photos are in chronological order and focus mainly on the Romansh-speaking Swiss…

By Cezar

Vivaldi on Debian Bookworm on a Dell VenuePro 11 5130

Let the first post of this blog be about the Vivaldi browser. Well, partly at least. It's also an adventurous tale of installing a 32 bit Linux distribution on an old Dell tablet and then getting it to run 64 bit…

By beyondexcess