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For as long as i can remember, i’ve always wanted to be a writer.

Book Do Walk by Libby DeLana.

I’m sure the iPhone Duo will be a perfectly fine device, but having reviewed my fair share of two-handed foldable phones, i just don’t get the hype.

A lot has been written about the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, but it was just as much a lifestyle product as the iPod (“1,000 songs in your pocket”) or the iPhone (“this changes everything”) had been.

Somewhere in the middle of ‘The Passage of the Marshes’, i began to wonder why the Sauron i’d decided to re-read The Lord of the Rings1.

Film Brand New Landscape by Yuiga Danzuka.

The Netgear Meural Canvas II digital photo frame is one of my favourite devices i own.

The SNCF has plastered the train windows with corny stickers saying “let yourself dream”, “#nofilter” and “seat with a view”.

There’ll probably never be another museum quite like the Apple Museum in Prague, which featured almost every Apple product ever made in pristine condition, before it closed in September 2020 after a dumbfounding dispute between its founders.

Should i redesign my blog?

Film The Phoenician Scheme by Wes Anderson.

“What is the oldest thing you own?”

This ↑ is what happens when Joe Dart breaks the sound barrier playing “Dean Town”.

I thought there’d be no better way to celebrate Miles Davis’s centennial than to listen to his whole discography in chronological order (more on that later).

In a previous life, i was a history major researching the French-Catholic migration to the Canadian Prairies between 1870 and 1915.

If you don’t speak French, you might never have heard of the AZERTY keyboard — the weird cousin of QWERTY with its shifted number row and a scattering of accented letters across the board.

I’m not talking about the orange buffoon’s latest antics.

They say “the hype is real”, but more often than not, the hype is entirely fabricated.

I don’t know why it suddenly dawned on me, but i’m not sure why i chose to build Z1NZ0L1N and Architypes with a full-fat CMS.

When you’re not as rich as you’d like and not as powerful as you’d think, you plaster gold trinkets all over your Oval Office.

Nobody in their right mind should own a professional espresso machine at home.

I was leafing through a collection of George Orwell’s essays when i stumbled upon this gem from “Looking back on the Spanish War”: I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway.

A few months into my new role, the biggest change has nothing to do with the job itself.

This week came and went in a blur.

I enjoy repairing typewriters, but the Olivetti Lettera 36 tested my patience.

The sudden change of ambiance in a street within the space of a few metres; the evident division of a city into zones of distinct psychic atmospheres; the path of least resistance which is automatically followed in aimless strolls (and which has no relati…

This blog wouldn’t exist if not for Manuel Moreale.

The books i’ve never even considered reading.