We are now 14 days in the new house and both very happy. Although I am extremely tired, we both are but I am effected more, from all the little odd jobs and unpacking. Hopefully this will be my last move and we won’t have to go through the stress of moving ever again, I know never say never. I am not getting any younger and this move has really hit me physically not to mention mentally. They say moving and house purchase are two of the big stressors and I have to agree. ...
After just over two years here in this old town in Northern Germany we are on the eve of another move, hopefully this is the last one. We aren’t getting any younger and I have less energy each time. This will be the twenty forth time I have moved house or flat in my life, which is without a doubt above average. We aren’t moving far this time, which is a good thing, and it has given us the chance to do a few trips back and forth with odd bits and bobs. As of this evening we are in a flat and it hasn’t been the most peaceful place we’ve lived. The last couple to move in below us have had us on edge for the first few months they were here. It seemed like they had drilled into every surface they could find. Not surprising though when one saw the amount of stuff they unloaded into this place, some people are just collectors and they certainly are. Enough of them, as of tomorrow they are history and never to be heard again. ...
I posted this earlier this morning on Mastodon In the middle of the night I have an idea for an over due blog post: let me now cogitate and procrastinate for a while. Stew on it until the idea is overly cooked, inedible and abandoned. Or as is my won't; forgotten as my mind wanders the corridors of global madness and distraction. Let me... Here is what I was thinking about in the night. ...
So far this month has been a really hard one heat wise and today we finally have it a little cooler. The weather for northern Europe has been terrible, affecting transport and people in equal measures. Roads have been popping and snow ploughs have been used to spray water to try and save the damage, a new one on me. I have lived in a few hot countries, Spain and Australia included, but they are at least better prepared for the hot normalcy of summer in the high thirties. Up here in Northern Germany not so much. I remember, as a kid in Melbourne, running from outside tap to outside tap to cool my flip-flop shoed hot feet in high summer. In old town Spain the streets were narrow and well shaded plus the pavements were mostly ceramic and so better in the sun than cement or tarmac. ...
June is already half way through and I haven’t posted anything again. I think about it, then forget about it, then think about it briefly, and then, well you get the idea. I have a lot going on outside this little web presence and the usual low key social media posting but that isn’t for today, maybe when it is all sorted I will let you all on in it, though, to be honest, I doubt it. Got to keep some stuff offline and out of the prying eyes of the corporations and their sucking machines. ...
There is a reader mode built into Vivaldi and it works okay, but on a couple of sites it seemed to truncate the text for some some reason unbeknownst to me. Fortunately Obsidian has a built in Web reader mode too the shortcut is shown below: Hotkeys: Action Shortcut Open Obsidian Clipper ⇧⌘O Quick clip ⌥⇧O Toggle highlighter. ⌥⇧H Toggle reader ⌥⇧R If you are on Windows change the ⌘ to Win and the ⌥ to Alt.
I have seen a few using and recommending using email as an old school contact option. I am a little dubious about using email and certainly not going to add my email address for the old trawling fleet to find. To that end I thought I would try an alias and see how that works. So reach oui if you see this and have any thoughts: email me
I don’t know how this affects images but I turned on: ShowFullTextinRSS: true I added this line in the config.yaml I really don’t care if it show the full post in the RSS, and personally I like that function when I am brwsing feeds. But please bare with me as I test this feature, until I get images showing as I like…
On Mac there is a shortcut to enter fractional elements in text, for example a 1⁄2 is: 1 ALT SHIFT 2 So Numerator then alt shift then Denominator.
Blogging As some may be aware I am quite a quiet fan of blogs and blogging. I like the low profile old school method of posting news information and updates. No big companies in the background milking our content for the advertising cow. Just ordinary people posting their thoughts and ideas. Sometimes mundane, sometimes informative but always human. AI blogging will come I suppose eventually, I think it may already be here in some form, though I haven’t been mithered by it, yet! I won’t be partaking of it in any way shape or form. Someone mentioned in their blog they had stopped using M-Dash ‘’— " punctuation as it is oft used by AI, I have no idea, also no reason not to believe them. ...