When I designed my “Which HTML element are you?” quiz, I wrote all of the HTML and JavaScript required to make the quiz work by hand. It took a lot of work, but it was a lot of fun! I used that code as the template for my second quiz, the Blogger Archetype Quiz. With that sai...
Have you ever wondered how best to summarise your character as a member of the blogging community? If so, this quiz is for you!
Answer the following questions to find out which blogger archetype best suits you.
Question 1
When you are spending time outdoors, what do you lik...
This post develops my thoughts on the theme of home that I first explored with focus in Home. You may appreciate reading Home before continuing to read this post.
Whenever people ask me where I live, I have, for so long, spoken about the proximity to the city, knowing that E...
The warm glow at the door, intensified by the morning sun beaming and then reflecting on the blank walls of the hallway, is the first colour I notice when I wake. I then look around and see the blue around the blinds – colour from the evening before, but seen from a new persp...
Blue light passes through the edges of the black-out blinds as I lie holding a pillow, on the edge of dreaming.
When I look back on my choice to study art history, I feel delighted. This year I have been pushed in new ways: to write essays short and long, to write stories, t...
“Cheers.” I like to say a toast to the day: to myself and others: peace, hope, happiness, health. After I raised my glass of orange juice, I looked up and saw a rainbow. I don’t think I have ever seen a rainbow from this view before: a rainbow that stands out among the grey c...
I wanted to try and write a little bit of fiction for my blog. I started with the prompt "You've been staring out of the window for the last 3 hours. Why?" and ended up writing the story below. Please enjoy!
“Excuse me. I noticed you’ve been staring out the window all day. I...
The faint reflection of the hall catches my eye; how nature and humanity blend — how there are so many ways to see the world; how painting lets us explore what we see and what we want the world to be, just like words. A figure — a few brush stokes and colours — stands out in ...
I opened my eyes and saw pink flowers; the countryside was dotted with flowers of all colours. Bees bounced between the thistles. I was delighted by all that I saw when I opened my eyes on the train journey; sleep is seductive, but so, too, is colour.
I spent the afternoon o...
The sixth episode of Wonders of Web Weaving is out:
In Episode 6, I chat with Cory, the author of coryd.dev. We talk about, among other things, the role of community in the indie web, a day in the life with his website, and music listening and community as it relates to personal websites.
I hope you enjoy the episode!
Wonders of Web Weaving has an RSS feed you can use to follow along from wherever you get your podcasts.
How to add Google News, Google Books, and Google Scholar search directly in your browser, to search those sites with fewer steps, and less chance of being distracted.One of my hobbies is contributing to Wikipedia, and more so, creating new Wikipedia articles. Citations of rel...
I went to the beautiful little town of Bietigheim today, because my son had a rehearsal with the Youth Philharmonic Ludwigsburg there. Anyway, the old town is lovely. Stunning half-timbered houses, a 14th-century city gate, a music school in an old castle, and also … this. 😳
Approaching a junction, I looked up to the sky and saw a hole in the clouds unlike any I have seen before. I usually look up to the stone that must be at least a hundred years old: to the grey buildings – homes – in which I see so many stories. But today the blue sky and the ...
The Snooze Tabs browser add-on is a key technology I use for category 2, defending focus (and prioritizing) from my previous post (link in footer).I noted in the #indieweb informal cafe chat that "I am going to snooze the tab for a month and re-evaluate then" (about purchasin...
Inspired by the Bear Blog question challenge and other blogging challenges, I thought I would make my own: the Taylor Swift question challenge.
The questions are orientated more toward people who have heard a few of her songs, but, no matter whether you have listened to one...
