A little pre-New Years adult beverage 🎉 while watching a bowl game 🏈
Final achievements of 2018
✅ Painted an interior wall (first time ever, in the kitchen)
✔️ Got back down to my pre-Christmas weight
Bring it on 2019!
Following the lead of some others, here is a collage of favorite photos from the past year. All made without Zuckerberg’s dirty fingers being involved 😉📷
Vicky is blogging about her one-bag nomad lifestyle. Enjoyed this post, gave me things to contemplate.
In giving things away, I felt I also got something back - a better perspective, mostly, on having things in the first place
Facebook found a new way to creep me out even though I deleted my account. Since last week graph.facebook.com is the top visited site on my network. Only my wife has an account and she uses it rarely. Rather than sniff this out I’m going to try blocking it. 😡
Sharing ten questions you might want to answer in a year-end journal entry. I’ve found these to be very beneficial.
I’ve found these questions to be a great launching point for a long-form journal entry looking at the prior year and considering the next.
What was your favorite single day/event of the year?
What was the best thing you built/created?
What was the most impactful decision you made for you and your family’s future?
What was your best financial achievement?
Did you achieve any lifelong goals?
What was the hardest lesson you learned over the past year?
Did you develop any new hobbies or passions? Are there any new hobbies or passions you want to develop in the New Year?
What was the most humbling experience of the past year?
What is the one thing you are most grateful for from this past year?
What are your personal goals for the coming year? Family goals? Religious goals? Health goals? Financial or career goals?
One of my big surprises locally was the announcement of a 15,000 seat cricket stadium to be constructed. This would mean we’d have professional cricket nearby before having a rugby team. All here in our little corner of Texas. I might have to learn the scoring rules! //@amit
Some of you might remember that a month ago I made a resolution to go from following 79 people to 100 by year end. I’m now at 120. What I find great about this is my timeline is still full of genuine people making quality posts. Quite unlike some social networks I could name…
This isn’t surprising but it is a fascinating read. Spoiler: probably a lot more thank you think. How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
Today was the first chance I got to do a RAW multi-photo editing session on my 2018 iPad Pro, going through our Christmas Day photos. Importing from my SD card, editing in Photos & editing in Darkroom were all fast. Exporting edits from Affinity Photo not so much. Overall ✔️
I don’t much believe in traditional-style New Year resolutions. But here are two things I am planning: 1. Continue reading articles in-depth rather than always speed reading 2. In January, regularly spend time at a local co-working space to network and shake up my brain a bit
9am status report: sitting here counting the minutes until I can dive into Christmas Day leftovers for lunch.
Binging on 7 Days Out on Netflix on this Christmas Eve.The quiet before tomorrow mornings chaos.
May your chestnuts be roasty and your mittens toasty. 🌰 🧤
Seasons greetings from Siri. Merry Christmas to Micro.blog-ites. 🎄 🎁
And with that last bit of tape our final Christmas gift is wrapped. I think the only thing on tomorrow’s agenda will be the pretty much inevitable last minute run for something from the grocery store. 🎄 🎁
In a random internet walk today I ran across this video from Young Guitarist of the year finalist Abigail Zapchko. It stopped me in my tracks. The maturity in her playing is stunning for a 14 year old. You might enjoy listening. 🎸 🎶
One of my Japanese friends always includes something unusual in his new year (年賀状) cards. This year in addition to some cool photos he included two fall-colored leaves. It’s a thought provoking choice. 🍁
Today’s WSJ has a solid article on the mess around FB and other social media firms pointing out that real competition is sorely needed. Hopefully Micro.blog can help. > Overreaction to content, privacy abuses overlooks real problem: lack of competition www.wsj.com
More things you need to know: Advertising ID tells who you are, its not anon > personal information was collected from apps … could include IP addresses, the app, the type of device and users’ unique Advertising IDs Facebook collects user data from apps like Tinder, OKCupid …
These small berries have been hanging around on the hiking trail for a few weeks. There are lots of birds in the vicinity searching for food but they never touch them. 📷 🐦
From the room while waiting for my Doctor. You can tell his preferred exercise method.
Wunderground is killing their API end of this year. Like many I wasnot notified and have several devices that make use of it. They don’t even have a way to migrate to IBM’s service yet for home-level users 😡 Yet another big company killing something small but useful. 🌧
Happy to say I deleted my account. They gave access to private messages and friends. > Facebook gave some of the world’s largest technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it has disclosed NY Times Report on ongoing Facebook deliberate exploitation
Nice to see Things3 getting some love from MacStories.
Hard data on the extent women are abused on Twitter
I’m not shocked by this data at all. I often wonder there are any women left on Twitter given the volume of random abuse the ones I know receive. The platform continues to prove it has zero values that stand up against abuse. It only acts when threatened. This is part of why I am here on Micro.blog and support the measures taken to prevent/manage this type of abuse.
A few quotes: > …female journalists and politicians were abused every 30 seconds on Twitter in 2017. > …black women were 84 percent more likely to be mentioned in abusive tweets than white women > Twitter’s failure to crack down on this problem means it is contributing to the silencing of already marginalized voices.