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I’m currently rewatching The Big Bang Theory. I watched it once while it was airing on TV and I liked it a lot. It ran for more than ten years and I got so used to the characters and locations that when it ended, I felt a bit sad. It was like saying goodbye to…
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The joy of blog wandering and slow reading
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I enjoy browsing personal blogs and small personal websites. There’s something fascinating about deep diving into the worlds of complete strangers, whose small corners of the web I stumble upon while wandering across our beloved world wide web, through the magic of serendipity. I like these moments when I’m comfortably settled at my desk or…
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Colors
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This is my entry for the August 2025 IndieWeb Carnival. The topic is “Colors”, and it’s hosted by Marisabel from Konfetti Explorations. Colors. An interesting, yet challenging, topic to explore. What shade lives in your bones? That’s a tough question to begin with! I don’t really know how to approach it, but a good starting…
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My own Microblogging tool
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Or microblogging like it’s 2009! A while back, I published an article named “From Social Feeds to Personal Feeds”, where I wrote about the boredom, clutter and noise of social networks, and that I was much more into personal websites and blogs, their philosophy and mood. That being said, most of the social networks were,…
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Listening to Music the 2000s Way: One Year Later
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Last summer, I ditched listening to music using streaming services (Spotify, then YouTube Premium) to go fully local. I wrote an detailed post to document my journey: Listening to Music the 2000s Way. One year later, I still listen to my music locally on my phone but made a subtle change that has made the…
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Blog Questions Challenge
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Two weeks ago, I published an article that could be categorized as a “meta post”, where I answered some random questions. It was my first post of this type, and I liked writing it. As I wrote in the conclusion of that post, it’s a good and fun way to spend time writing. So here…
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Framing Japan – Part 6: Administrative Stroll
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For this sixth episode of my Framing Japan photo series, let’s take a walk through Minami-Azabu, a neighborhood in Tokyo’s Minato ward. All these pictures were shot on January 8th, 2009. That particular day, I was heading to the French Embassy. Since it was quite a journey from where I was living at the time,…
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Answering Some Randomly Generated Questions
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There, a post written in English. Except for my fifth ”Framing Japan” series article I wrote back in May, I haven’t written anything in English since October 2024 (which was also a “Framing Japan” series article, the fourth one). Anyway, I was kind of randomly browsing the numerous blogs I have bookmarked, reading a few…
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Framing Japan – Part 5: My First Journey
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↑On the highway, heading toward Tokyo in April 2001 — Google Street View A few weeks ago, while clearing out a drawer, I stumbled upon an old photo album filled with snapshots from my very first trip to Japan back in April 2001. Shot on a disposable film camera, these pictures feel like tiny time capsules,…
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Framing Japan – Part 4
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This is the fourth post in the “Framing Japan” series. For this episode, I selected five photos that share common characteristics: Minami-Aoyama Minami-Aoyama is the name of a district of Minato-ku, which itself is one of the 23 wards of the Tokyo Metropolis, capital of Japan. A friend of mine used to work in this district, close to…