Sometimes the internet
Sometimes the internet scares me. And I'm not talking about dark webs, cyber crimes and gruesome humans behind keyboards. No, I'm talking about human interaction mediated by bits and bytes and how, when one decides to write something in here, it instantly becomes part of the ether that is the internet. No take backsies, I guess. Which is funny if you think about it, considering the horde of deadlinks and whatnot, but this phenomena is (mostly) outside of the original poster's hands.
I might delete this entire blog, dig it out of the Way Back Machine, scrape whatever I can off of the face of the internet, and yet, somehow, somewhere, in someone's bookmarks or send-to-kindles or offline backups... there can be a slice of folkmoss there which I cannot control.
I was surfing through a website earlier today when I saw a complete stranger mentioning me and complimenting said website.
Like... what?
Who is that, what is happening, how did they find I linked that website... But of course. The answer is quite obvious and boring: they clicked here and found the link and thought it was cool enough to leave a lil note to the webmaster. Meanwhile, I didn't even remember linking it!
It was so out of the blue, so unexpected to find mention of yours truly in someone else's web space. So yeah, sometimes the internet does scare me a little bit.
In other news
- I'm playing around with pixel art again. Created my first grimy cursors on Cursor.cc and I love them. Yes, I was feeling Halloweeny still.
- I was fiddling on Neocities to have my LibraryThing widget there as well and, taking a cue of Petra Pixel's widgets, I got it working alright. But the thing is, I cannot, for the life of me, figure out why it refuses to stay centered on my sidebar. I'll just have to live with that, I guess.
- As for IRL, I've done a bunch of conference interpretation in the past few weeks, which means I get to pay off my debts and start 2026 fresh. This is the first month I've had leftover money on my bank account (for a hot minute there I thought I'd forgotten to pay some bill). I'll finally be able to save money. Maybe even invest it. Imagine that! It's been years since I've had any money working for me. I miss that feeling.
- After two weeks without checking Listography, all the lists that needed updating are up to date now. It was only two weeks but it felt like an entire month. I really missed it, I love my Listo and checking other ppl's stuff.
- I've moved from Firefox to Vivaldi. We'll see how that goes. So far, so good. It looks very robust for this average internet user here. Also discovered about Start.me and I love it.
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