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A Blogful of Indecision...

A blast from the past - in which I took a screenshot of this blog as it was 13 years ago

In my previous post I mentioned that I was using the Solarized theme before and thus went off diving through some of the backups that I have around to find some screenshots or such. So far though I on...

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The Rabbit Hole - when all I wanted was to try out a text-editor

I don't know why, but I like fiddling with and just recently I ran into the Helix editor, gave it a try and liked it. For me, it was almost zero-config-ready out of the box. For the first time even th...

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Miniflux!

If there is one thing that I have been consistent with other the past, I don't know how many years, it is my RSS-reading habit. It is a daily ritual and I rarely miss a day. Over the course of the yea...

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My Favourite Firefox Shortcut

... despite me bizarrely forgetting it on a regular basis, would be = '. I use it all the time to open links. It makes pages way more fast to navigate.

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re: The Last Move

Not too long ago I told you about my " last move " and how I choose to again simply running my own blog. Well, I am still doing that, but, needless to say, I got the itch and had to move things around...

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The Last Move

After a somewhat tumultuous week over the Christmas holidays during which I "moved" my blog multiple times between Micro.Blog and Bearblog, where the blog had been running for a couple of months then,...

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About my current Blogging/Writing Strategy

Ideally my current blogging/writing workflow would work like this: 1. write post-draft in my notebook 2. transcribe and edit the post in the editor 3. hit publish This gives me the opportunity to: ✅ t...

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The Books I Read in 2024

This year hasn't been the best (turns out I started last year's post pretty much the same way) for my reading habit but I got at the least some reading done. One reason could of course be that there h...

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The Kinky Boots Rehearsals have started

The rehearsals for Kinky Boots started this week. This is going to be a fun show with great music.

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And the blog is turning 16 (or possibly 17 years) today 🎂

It's been a while that I remembered the anniversary in fact, but as of today, this blog is proven to be 16 years but in fact should be 17 years old. There had been some issues with the birth certifica...

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Yet, more time has passed - the November edtion

I'm not going to state the obvious, but the weeknote thing is not really working out at the moment, but still. Since the last post about the following things happened (more or less) we (the Oulu All S...

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The 'some-time-has-passed-note' for September 24

Calling this/ these posts a "weeknote" does fell a funny by now, and until I manage to do so on a weekly basis it seems more reasonable to call them something else. This title will for now. Anyway, si...

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A Night with Coldplay in Helsinki

Had a wonderful evening with my wife at the Coldplay gig in Helsinki yesterday. What a mind blowing show!

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The Mountain of Madness that is me deciding on a Task Manager setup - aka My Last Two Weeks

After about 8 months of using exclusively Emacs/Orgmode for all my task management and agenda needs, I happened to open one of my old Bullet Journals and remembered how much I enjoy analog task management.

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For our 15th Anniversary

For our 15th anniversary we are watching Postmodern Jukebox tonight!

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