November 2025
The blog turned 18 this year and I'm trying to revive it a bit. Starting with updating this page.
Pen/Paper
After dabbling with the Hobonichi and again the Traveller's Notebook and the usual assortment of fountain pens and inks, I have been going back to the Leuchtturm which gives me the most flexibility and the Jetstream 0.5 which gives me the most consistency of all pens aside a pencil. Both tools are reliable and just work.
Linux
After my Fedora install collapsed and is not usable anymore I somehow can't be bothered to try to fix the install and will likely just wipe the disc and install a new OS. Have yet to decide which distribution to use forward.
Reading
- Dan Brown: Angels and Demons
the /now archive:
August 2025
With one more day of vacation, I am trying to avoid to get too early into work mode and rather focus on getting some things done that not related to work. Which is code for: "having touched the laptop in quite some time and am surprised it still works", but now am slowly getting back into the groove.
Starting with, the blog, of course. My all-time time-sink:
Blog
Every now and then I try to update/import some of the older posts but as usual this turns out to be somewhat annoying, but I am getting there. Also would like to check the new features of Ghost 6.0 which has just been released today. Ghost now has stats built-in, which means I can now see that no-one but myself is visiting this.
Pen/Paper
I am changing things up again, hopefully for the better, and moving to the Hobonichi system and pen-wise I am going with the 0.5 Jetstream. I will go further into this in an upcoming post.
Reading
My summer reading didn't quite work out as planned, but currently am reading:
- Michael Palin: Diaries - The Python Years
- Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood
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July 2025
The blog-move goes on and I continue to enjoy using Ghost. Takes away quite a bit of stress that I had been creating for myself using Hugo or whatever. Despite planning to do a fresh-start I realized that there are quite a few posts that I either miss having on site, or that seem relevant in one way or the other.
So, I am importing those and whatever post links from or to them. This is as annoying as it sounds and will take a while. Also I am wondering how to best organize the /now-pages so that the old entries are not getting lost. I have some ideas, but am still working on those.
Ghost has a collection-feature, maybe this could be used for that. Let's see.
Reading
- Franz Kafka: Diaries
- Shoji Morimoto: Rental person who does nothing
June 2025
And I am again, still, "optimizing" my workflows and am currently quite satisfied with using Obsidian as my blog-editor as well as my Bullet-Journal replacement. Things are working fine and rather smooth at the moment and I like that.
Should I be able to stick to this for longer than my usual three months I think I will be putting a post together.
Surprise, I didn't and am back to my Emacs-based workflow and it feels just better. It is the usual.
And yes ... after roughly a month on Emacs I switched first back to a notebook, and now also to Obsidian again and try to make both things to work in tandem.
Which works well, for about three days already.
And no... I can't make this up.
Currently reading:
- The Fables of Aesop
- Ken Liu: Laozi's Dao De Jing
What is this?
The concept of a NOW page is developed by Derek Sivers. Thanks to Derek for the inspiration.