Blog, scrapbook, and virtual space for my experiments.
I thought I would write a post to mark the fact that we have reached the end of the first half of the year, but there is a problem: everything is terrible. Racism, Police killing people, Governments silencing the press and taking people’s freedom away, war, covid-19, and climate change. Could it be worse?
I was talking to a friend over lunch – he is also my neighbour and a co-worker, so it has been fairly easy to stay in touch even during lockdown – when he mentioned the fact that the burgers we were eating were good, but unlike McDonald's burgers, the flavour of sauces and other ingredients would vary slightly each time.
A list of useful and interesting websites I visited and saved in my favourites this month. They are varied in nature, and show the topics I am interested in: privacy, old-style internet, well-being, and figuring out how the human mind works.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
~ Melyanna
This book was listed among Bill Gates's favourite books, and the fact that this is a romantic comedy novel intrigued me, so I decided to read it.
Working all day in front of a computer may not be an intense physical activity, but it is still taxing for our eyes, muscles, and body. stretchly is a cross-platform, FOSS app by Jan Hovancik, that reminds you to take breaks when working with a computer.
Having recently abandoned social media (it feels really good, by the way), and not enjoying the ads, pop-ups, and overall clickbaity tone of most news sites, I have now moved to using rss feeds to get my updates. I find it funny that rss feeds have been around for ages, but after years of not really getting it, I now enjoy this method for getting news and updates more than any other.
