The Paperwhite
At the end of last year I wrote a piece about my inability to read as much as I would like to, and I kind of challenged myself to improve on this. Suffice to say, that it is not there where I would li...
Setting up Atom.io as my Markdown Editor
I recently had to admit to myself that too many options are not good for the way I work. Once I have the chance to fiddle, I will do so and eventually not get much done. This happened when I realized...
My new favourite Writing Font
I have more than once been writing (not calling it whining for that matter) here about my weird obsession with the Nitti Font used by WriterPro and iA Writer. All attempts of getting used to another f...
Before They Disintegrate Pt.2
The other day a few more T-Shirts arrived and they are already among my favourites. So, even before they start to disintegrate eventually, an image for the digital archive: And yes, still not ironed.
Before They Disintegrate
As a kind of digital preservation, and a reminder to myself which shirts I own. Think of it as a digital wardrobe of sorts. The other day I got a new T-Shirt and this was again a reminder how many of...
A Looping Exercise
Some of my favourite etudes that I ran into over the years are the Kröpsch Clarinet etudes, especially the first volume. The exercises are short, almost easy to remember and overall effective, challen...
No Time To Read
I really like to read. Or phrased a little better: I really would like to like to read more. The sad truth is that, even though I buy books regularly, I hardly manage to finish two or three books a ye...
A Session To Remember
It's rare enough of an occasion that someone like Joe Lovano performs around here, let alone shows up on the Jam Session. So rare, that I almost forgot that I had my camera with me. In fact the whole...
Twenty-Something Years Later
About twenty years ago I was listening to a Big Band rehearsal for a concert with Sam River's music, the host of the masterclass that I was attending. It turned out that one tenor player was missing a...
Writing Tools revisited
In the recent past I haven’t writing much about one of my weak spots: text-editors. Mostly this is because I haven’t had much time to actually do sit down and write some things for the blog, and also...
Ghost Blogging Platform
Ghost Blogging Platform I saw a few concepts of Ghost somewhere on the web quite a while ago and seeing it becoming reality is actually quite exciting. As backing the project doesn't seem to be necess...
The Move
In a recent post I wrote about some re-modeling which was going on around here and after finally re-writing the colophon I consider my move done. Who would have thought. As so often with all things th...
A Text-Editor Habit
After my last confession  it is time for another one. I have a problem. I have developed a habit: text-editors. It turns out that I (amongst other things) collect  them, both on iOS  and OS X. To...
When "distraction-free" doesn't equal "free of distractions"
Over the past few years, the act of writing has become somewhat of a regular task for me. In fact I often find myself writing not with the purpose of writing something for either of my blogs, or to wr...