[This started as a long email and evolved into a more detailed list than I expected]. How to simplify email, newsfeeds and other digital streams…
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Skyrim and Westeros
More similarities between Skyrim and Game of Thrones. Both stories involve the return of mythical dragons In GoT, the highest representative of Gods is a Septim. In Skyrim, the Emperor Tiber Septim became a God. Skyrim contains many volumes of A Dance in Fire. Wildlings vs Forsworns and Skaal Both include Giants with Mammoths Both revolve around a King of…
Shopping for a WordPress Theme
I download a lot of themes for WordPress… to try them out, to have them in case I need them later or because they have features that could make them THE them I am looking for. I have been trying to sort out the idea of personal websites and blogs for a while. Building a single site to reflect a wide…
Consume / Create / Connect – What are your ratio between the 3?
If one is disproportionate, it is time to start working on the other two.
Make stuff
People can define themselves in many ways, be it the people they are with, places they have visited, things they have experienced, or in this case, things they have created. Looking at what has always attracted me in computers, the latter is the way I would like to define myself the most. In that way, computers are the ultimate creativity…
Tech pet peeves
This is 2015. Email has been around for decades and yet, both iOS apps for Facebook and Google + do not have a ‘Share by email’ option. iOS has a universal sharing mechanism usable across multiple apps and both Facebook and Google+ apps are not making use of it. They act as walled gardens. Keeping you in and forcing you…
Skyrim in 2014
Open the Full Gallery on Google Plus.
First mod – Skyrim Immersion Patch
Have you ever wondered how the Greybeards keep themselves warm? or those bandits in that tower above Riverwood? How do they prepare food in those inns? And what about beggars…where do they sleep? Mods like ‘Cutting Room Floor’ or ‘Unofficial Skyrim Patch’ inspired me to get started with that dreaded CK editor and give back a little to the Skyrim…
Fresh start
After six iterations over 20 years (already?), time to rethink what I want my personal websites to be. The best way to do that is to start clean and get rid of obsolete web pages and blog entries. I am keeping the same structure for now, with a different focus: alquier.org – lifestream across multiple feeds linfa.net – random notes…
