📚 Finished Reading: The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard
A beautifully crafted and haunting novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard immerses readers in the lives of ordinary characters while exploring deep existential questions about life and relationships.
Separate Blog Experiment For Short Notes Up and Running
A separate blog for short notes is being considered to keep the main page clean while maintaining a record of posts shared on Mastodon.
How do you handle your short, title less posts?
Just keep them on your main blog?
Have a separate blog just for short posts, and link to it on your main blog?
If you keep them on your main blog, do you somehow separate them out? Does your theme give you that ability or have you coded this option in?
NYT George Saunders Interview
NYT George Saunders Interview: The interviewer, with a deep appreciation for writers and their skill in articulating complex problems, highlights the transformative power of storytelling.
Finished Reading: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 📚
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 📚
Powerful book, makes you think a lot about the human condition, how we treat each other, and the assumptions we make. Intelligence or the lack of it, and how differently we treat people with the whatever level we think they have.
Good story, powerful character building.
But I know now there’s one thing you’ve all overlooked: intelligence and education that hasn’t been tempered by human affection isn’t worth a damn.”
Excellent information about Safe Mode for Mac users, including what it is and when to use it.
Howard’s website is a wealth of information and apps for understanding and diagnosing your Mac. Plus some great Art History lessons as well.
I’ve had it! Every time I take them out to use them… I’m ready to turn in my AirPods and look for something new. 🤬
This happens all the time. They are brand new, so it’s not a cleaning issue. This happened with my last set of AirPods as well.
The only saving grace is that they charge fast…
The Cliff538 2025 Yearly Review
Another Year is in the books here is the Cliff538 2025 Yearly Review
Working with Hugo and your MicroBlog Locally
Working with Hugo and your MicroBlog Locally with Claude Code for Testing and Learning
Finished reading: The Hobbit - Enhanced Edition by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚
Finished reading: The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien 📚
What is there to say about this book that hasn’t already been said? First published September 21st, 1937. It’s a classic, and I enjoy re-reading it from time to time. The 75th Anniversary Edition is really well done with lots of backstory and history. They have included original artwork by Tolkien and some pages from the original manuscript. Some of the letters between Tolkien and his publisher are interesting to read; the business side of books always gets in the way of a good story.
The quote that stood out to me this time:
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ~ Thorin Oakenshield
365Pixels Stat Page
I’ve always wanted a stat page on 365Pixels that showed my current streak, posting percentage and other info.
📸 ❄️ 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 12: Home
Home is anywhere/anytime when I’m with my crew❣️
Merry Christmas Micro.blog, it’s been a wonderful year watching, learning, and getting to know all of you. 🎄
The Internet Baffles Me Sometimes
This morning, both my microblog blogs were down for an hour. But my two testing microblog blogs were up and running. I checked Hover, my domain provider, and they had 100% uptime with no issues. Microblog showed no problems. But we are back now after an hour or so. Who knows 🤔
Update: 12/25/2025
And all has been made clear. This explains everything above.
As they say, “It’s always DNS.”
