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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... more
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,... more
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... more
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... more
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. more
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... more
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... more
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... more
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! more
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. more
My EMMS Dired-Player Transient
Transients seemingly are all the rage recently and I have built a few myself once I realized that Transient is built-in already, thus doesn't need any additional packages. The recently released CASUAL DIRED package inspired me to share my EMMS-DIRED-PLAYER transient that I have built a while ago. more
Weeknotes 2024 #05
A few, exceptionally busy weeks later it is time for yet another not-all-weekly-weeknote-post. Just as it should be. Yes, it's been a while and I had to go through my journal files to get an overview... more
The Stupid Amount of Time
TL,DR: In which I predict the future, make fun of myself and save time, annoyance and money in the process. more
Weeknotes 2024 #4
And it's time for another monthly weeknote post. I really should come up with a better title for these. more
Emacs find of the day: M-X
I was supposed to do some actual work, but rather chose to set up a custom-key-map, as one does as it is weekend. In the process I learned about a hither unknown command to me, tied to . And yes, it's... more
A small, but useful org-agenda tweak
For the longest time it bothered me, that jumping from a task in the agenda to the entry in my todo.org file, always shows me the todo in context with all other task around it. I only want to see THE... more
Musescore AppImage sound issues on Fedora 39
I was just about to start writing an arrangement in Musescore 4.2 when sound-output stopped working in the application, thus rendering all attempts of getting some work done in vain. It doesn't need mentioning, but starting to work on a Sunday morning before 7 o'clock implies a certain sense of urgency. In fact the arrangement preferably has to be done today! more
Weeknotes 2024 #3
Whoa, again the weeks fly by and I guess that I am again way behind my own schedule (no I have no expectation that anyone waits for these posts to drop, but still) so let's just jump right in. The Blo... more
Weeknotes 2024 #2
The vacation is over and the first week had been as busy as usual. In fact, in hindsight it doesn't even feel like a week - more like a month's worth of stuff and vacation is nothing but a distant mem... more