Yesterday was the anniversary of my decision to step back from the blog, a reflection of my realisation/admittance that things weren’t good on the mental health front.
It’s been a rollercoaster year.
The poem “The Stream” was an illustration that depression is often contextual.
We’re currently on holiday and the stream in the poem is in one of my favourite places: The Trough of Bowland, a jewel hidden within the wider Forest of Bowland area of natural beauty.
This past week I have deliberately and drastically reduced my phone usage; there have even been times when I haven’t carried it.
It felt strange at first but then it became liberating.
I’m on holiday this week so posts are likely to be a bit thin on the ground. I’ll be having quite a digital free few days.
Liked: My IndieWeb story, Part 1: Jumping in the Deep End…
“I hope it presents both some technical aspects of the IndieWeb but more so introduces how the IndieWeb experience is personal and is shaped by each individual.”
It’s raining for the first time in what seems forever but I don’t reach for my umbrella; it’s refreshing, a gift, makes me feel alive.
Liked: Let’s repurpose simpleton – James Shelley…
“I think we should repurpose the word ‘simpleton’ into something that isn’t so pejorative. There’s something to be said for circumventing the needlessly complicated. And to consider oneself a simpleton reflects a healthy sense of skepticism about the comprehensiveness of one’s knowledge.”
I started reading one of my birthday presents “The Story of Philosophy: A History of Western Thought” on the way to work this morning and was instantly struck by the following passage in the introduction:
Liked: In Praise of Email | Dan Cohen…
“Despite, or perhaps because of, its early inception, email avoided many of the worst aspects of our modern media environment.”
Although World of Warcraft was supposed to be down until 10am this morning for the BfA pre-patch I was able to log in around 5am. As with all new expansions, however, it’s an initial game of addon roulette until things get updated.
Yesterday was a fun day of predominantly gaming but we also rewatched Rogue One (again) in the evening – still one of my favourite Star Wars films.
Unfortunately, the car wasn’t ready thanks to Vauxhall not being forthcoming that they weren’t doing next day delivery of a part.
Hot on the heels of our anniversary today I celebrate 47 trips around the sun (yes, we arranged them to be that close on purpose.)
Do I feel my age? I don’t really know what 47 is supposed to feel like so I can’t answer that. I certainly don’t act like it.
Yesterday was our 23rd wedding anniversary. Wow, 23 years!
Unfortunately, just as we were planning on heading out, our car decided it would be a good time for the accelerator pedal sensors to fail rendering it immobile.
Liked: Unfollowing Everybody…
“At this point, there’s nothing novel about noticing that social media is often toxic and stressful. But even aside from those concerns, our social networks are not things we generally think of as requiring maintenance or upkeep, even though we routinely do regular updates on all the other aspects of our digital lives.”
I had to come home early from work thanks to a migraine. Nothing terribly unusual about that as I’m a sufferer but I did notice a return to my old/usual aura rather than the colour-draining dizziness of recent months.
So, England are finally out of the World Cup.
Still, I’ve got Croatia in the sweepstake at work and am guaranteed a prize. Takes the edge off a bit.
The team at Betamagic (those behind News Explorer) have replied saying they’ll look at properly supporting title-less posts so I’ve given them mine and Dave Winer’s as examples.
Now that’s service. Thanks guys!
One thing I’ve noticed about News Explorer is that it doesn’t completely support title-less items.
If the item title tag is present but blank it’s handled fine but if the item title tag doesn’t exist – which is perfectly legitimate – it says “No title.”
Liked: Relentlessly Turning Input Knobs To 0 – Feld Thoughts…
“Basically, I’ve turned down the input knobs on almost all real-time social media inputs to 0.”
Having deleted my accounts (with the exception of micro.blog and even that is hardly registering) I appreciate the difference this makes.
I found the issue. Line 80 of \includes\class-linkbacks-notifications.php in the Semantic Linkbacks plugin should be:
if( ! Linkbacks_Handler::get_type)( $comment ) ) {
The :: is missing.