It’s not that i don’t have enough tools to write how i want when i want it, it’s that i have too many. I have at least one computer from each of the last five decades, enough fountain pens to open a nice store and twelve – twelve! – typewriters. I have so much stuff that i almost forgot that i had a Freewrite Alpha....

It’s not that i don’t have enough tools to write how i want when i want it, it’s that i have too many. I have at least one computer from each of the last five decades, enough fountain pens to open a nice store and twelve – twelve! – typewriters. I have so much stuff that i almost forgot that i had a Freewrite Alpha....

I’ve been reading on a Kobo Libra Colour for more than a year. It has wonderfully clicky buttons, a nicely textured back, a well thought-out “origami” cover, outstanding battery life, a more than decent reading environment, and a well-stocked bookshop. I like it! You shouldn’t buy it. In fact, you shouldn’t buy any...

I’ve been reading on a Kobo Libra Colour for more than a year. It has wonderfully clicky buttons, a nicely textured back, a well thought-out “origami” cover, outstanding battery life, a more than decent reading environment, and a well-stocked bookshop. I like it! You shouldn’t buy it. In fact, you shouldn’t buy any...

Nothing else to say than: “wish me good luck for next week”. See you on the other side. Books God’s Madman at the End of the World by Javier Cercas. Much to my surprise, the Vatican has never let a writer follow the Pope around during one of his trips abroad. Why would “a godless lunatic” such as Javier Cercas...

My entry for this month’s IndieWeb carnival was the most fun i’ve had writing in a while. It isn’t a genre-defining piece of work, but it conveys what i wanted to convey, which is more than a lot of my journalistic work can say. I should write fiction more often.LinksHere are some “better a working typewriter than a...

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by V.H. Belvadi, on the topic of “where do you see the IndieWeb in 2030?”. 2031.12.04/Lyon You have to understand that i thought the web was dead. They told us that after the great AI metastasis of 2028, it was impossible to clean up the mess, and they had...

And that’s four weeknotes in a row. Let’s hope i’ll get back to regular blogging soon. Books Le comte de Monte-Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. At almost 1,500 pages, this was an ambitious way to reacquaint myself with bigger books. The gamble paid off: whilst there are some traces of the original serialization, i’d be...

Speaking of small seasons, winter descended on Europe in a flash, and it’s been freezing for the last ten days straight. It’s my favourite part of the winter: the air is crisp, the days are as bright as the nights are dark, there’s not a cloud on the horizon, and the colours are magnificent. I do miss the snow,...

I’m looking for a new job, which is to say, i’m spending an awful lot of time on LinkedIn. A lot of friends suggested i cold connect with total strangers. “You should expand your network”, they say, “everybody should know you’re available”, they say, “they might be your future colleagues”, they say. “You should be...

I just reorganized my library, so what did people gift me for my birthday? More books, of course. I guess nature really hates a vacuum. Apps Affinity. I was fully expecting Canva to radically simplify the Affinity suite, but i wasn’t expecting it to merge the three separate apps into a free all-in-one picture,...

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival, hosted by Alex Sirac, on the topic of “Cycles and fluctuations”. The life of a journalist is governed by schedules, but i’m not a journalist anymore. I’ve always prided myself on knowing the exact time instinctively, but now that i don’t have a work routine...