07 February 2025

Home tech notes for the week

Just a few events in my technology life

This week I played with the technology in my (home) life a bit more than on an average week, so I thought I’d share some of these changes and experiments.

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02 February 2025

Weekly visions - week 4, 2025

All the world’s a horror, and all the men and women are merely zombies

The poster for Michael Gracey's film *Better Man*
Oscar season is here, and by that I mean, the period between the nominations announcement and the Academy Awards ceremony.
In the last few years, I have ‘accepted the (self-imposed) challenge’ to see all the films nominated for Best Picture before the winner is announced. This year it feels like a daunting goal.

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01 February 2025

Nowhere Man

There are places John won’t remember

A curious thing I found while walking in Etterbeek
A plaque on a building in Etterbeek claims that ‘In 1965, John Lennon could have stayed in this house if, during the Beatles’ European Tour, he had passed through Etterbeek’.

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29 January 2025

Yearly visions - Top 9 non-2024 films I watched in 2024

Where I am summoned to take another look back at 2024

The poster for Shinichiro Ueda's comedy *One Cut of the Dead*
A proposed post topic has crossed over from Tumblr thanks to Jo’s Blog, then Sara suggested that, as a frequent participant to the IndieWeb Movie Club, I could be interested in it. The official topic is ‘Top 9 Films watched in 2024’, but since I have already posted my Top Ten of films released in 2024, I’ll adopt a variation on the theme and list my Top 9 films that I watched for the first time in 2024 but were released on a previous year.

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25 January 2025

Goodbye Mary, goodbye Jane

Will I ever meet my Facebook Friends again?

It’s done. I have clicked on ‘delete account’ both on Facebook and Instagram. Of course, since Mark is really sorry to see me go, I have a month to rethink my decision before my profile vanishes like I’m a technophobic Thanos.

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24 January 2025

Weekly visions - week 3, 2025

Ghosts, aliens, Nicole Kidman, and doors

The poster for Philip Kaufman's 1978 version of *Invasion of the body snatchers*
As I experience another revolution of the Earth around the Sun, I feel like I’m forgetting things I once knew very well. As if years of studies were being obliterated by work and irrelevant knowledge, as if what’s temporary and superficial was getting too much relevance compared to what should be important and permanent. I’m not sure if it’s a normal process, and whether there is a way back. The music is reversible, but time’s not.

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