Life does not promise you stability. IT PROMISES YOU A LABORATORY

From here

The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.

From one of my all-time favourite pieces of inspiration.

So… wait. Is the difference real, or only in your imagination? 🤔

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel / You were famous, your heart was a legend / You told me again you prefer handsome men / But for me you would make an exception

Have I been listening to The Fame Monster while drinking wine all evening?

You’re goddamn right I have.

When you’re feeling low, it’s amazing what your first meal & coffee of the day can do.

This is why the first thing elderly-mother stereotypes ask is always, “have you eaten?”

Hmm! Looks like micro.blog does not always include the canonical URL when cross-posting to fbook. Troublesome. Well, this is a work in progress. Will keep fiddling.

If this topic interests you, and assuming fbook even shows you this post (spit), let me know. Happy to discuss. :)

I like that, because if one of those advertising companies goes out of business, or just plain decides my post doesn’t fit their algorithm, I’ve still got a link I can send anyone and they can go look at it.

This is why phrases like the “open web” and “net neutrality” matter.

Broken link that previous post: micro.blog

You can see this post has a canonical URL at a domain I control: danj.ca. So I can make quick, Twitter/Instagram-like posts from my own, and they can be syndicated here, but the content is mine.

So among the reasons I’m no Facebook fan is my desire to control and own the words I publish and share on the internet. I’m a supporter of the IndieWeb, but, then again, I can build and host my own websites, so it’s easy to be.

Here’s a tool that makes owning your content a bit more accessible: [micro.blog][]. I backed the Kickstarter and am playing around with the service.

Moving from Winnipeg to Vancouver it was like, wow, there’s great coffee everywhere!

Must admit, Vancouver’s got nothing on Sydney. #picsofmyfood #☕️

That does not look like a real photograph, I wonder if she actually approved this collaboration or if they did it all in Photoshop? 🤔

…this iPhone app has a ways to go: I can access my photo library but not my camera? 🤔

The corollary to (2) being, since Marley Spoon gives you the spices they think should go in their recipe, you should add your own.

Tried my first Marley Spoon recipe today, discovered,

1. Should have just cooked rice the way I have for a decade instead of following their directions
2. Always use more spices than a recipe says.

I am incapable of starting any online-publishing venture with other than the following:

Hello, World