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The Rise and Fall of Instant Messaging (Internet Ate My Communication, Part 2)
As easily, as e-mail had killed real letters, instant messaging wiped out most of my casual communication several years later. In the 1990’s it first looked like a miracle to me. One wrote something and it appeared on your friend’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Communication, Computers, Friendship, Internet, Sigh
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A Page on My Book Launched
If you already noticed that there is a new section of this web named The 8-Bit Way, you don’t have to read any further. To the rest of you I would like to say that I’m currently finishing a book … Continue reading
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Tagged 8-bit computers, Atari, Book, Commodore, E-Book, Sinclair, The 8-Bit Way
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Internet Has Not Eaten All My Communication, Part 1
Fun, fun, fun. Less than 24 hours since I wrote my sigh about letters being gone forever I received an e-mail from a friend who currently lives on the other side of the Pond. She wrote me a genuine e-letter, … Continue reading
Bye Bye Letters, Bye Bye Intimacy (Interent Ate My Communication, Part 1)
Perhaps it’s as my friend Martin says, “When you’ve got a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.” I’m currently working on a book on my life with 8-bit computers, so I can’t rule out that I just want to … Continue reading
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Tagged 8-bit, Communication, Computers, Friendship, Internet, Sigh
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Procrastinator Anonymous
A colleague experimenting with song writing, and just like me having to fight procrastination at times, once complained about the lack of lyrics for his music, and I was stupid enough to offer to him that I’d write some for … Continue reading
Mr. M
If it looks like a petrified state-owned institution, if it behaves like a petrified state-owned institution and if it’s as user-hostile and unreliable as a petrified state-owned institution then it’s … our beloved post office. That was the experience I … Continue reading
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Procrastination (A Post I’ve Been Putting off)
I wouldn’t define myself as an overly tidy person but still there were times in my life when all the floors at my place would be shining, the dishes would always be washed, the laundry would be done and you wouldn’t … Continue reading
Tea and Honey and the Inner Ring
Sometimes I feel like God is urgently trying to tell me something but however hard (S)He tries, I’m just too stupid to understand. Fortunately, at other times the message is clear enough. One bright and shiny day about a year ago I went … Continue reading
Long Time No See
A smile is a special thing. No one is so poor that they can’t spare one and no one is so rich that they can get along without one. Alright, I’ve always loved this saying. At times I started to think … Continue reading
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Perplazed
Every day, this world makes me go “WOW – my!” or “Oh, my!” Every day, I live, hear or read stories which make me happy, thrilled, angry, amused, puzzled, sad or uplifted. Often several of the adjectives above apply at the … Continue reading
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