On the day Elon Musk purchased Twitter, downloaded all my Tweets (over 3,500) and developed a scheme for loading them into WordPress as a custom post type. Did a test conversion of the data into a format that can be loaded into WordPress. I’ll continue to cross-post on Twitter.
Category: Write
Twitter Independence
Woke up to the news Elon Musk may buy Twitter. Spent much of the day developing a replacement microblog capability in WordPress. When I add a micropost with WordPress, a Tweet automatically posts to Twitter.
12 Months of Microposts: 2021
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12 Months of Microposts: 2021
It’s almost the end of 2021: it’s time to look back at the past 12 months of my almost daily microposts. I’ve been posting daily for about 10 years. The posts don’t document my life during those years; they’re merely a series of little things that have given me joy. Occasionally I miss a day… Continue reading 12 Months of Microposts: 2021
Visualizing International Travel
It’s over a year since I last set foot in an airport. Now, thanks to the miracle of Covid vaccines, I can allow my mind to drift towards thoughts of international travel. I was hoping I’d had a mild version of Covid when I posted an earlier version of this infographic in May 2020; a… Continue reading Visualizing International Travel
The Ministry
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The Ministry
The campus in this photograph became the main offices for a British government ministry in 1948. You could be forgiven for wondering if it was a prisoner-of-war camp, repurposed as The Ministry of Truth, The Ministry of Plenty, or The Ministry of Peace. The campus was originally built as a wartime hospital for wounded servicemen… Continue reading The Ministry
Keeping the Faith Through the Arts
During the last four years, while some in power denied basic, decent human values, the Arts have helped me keep the faith. Here’s some examples from my microblog.
12 Months of Microposts: 2020
Posted 12 Months of Microposts: 2020.
12 Months of Microposts: 2020
Most days I post something about my day in a microblog. Without over-thinking, I’ve selected one post from each month of 2020. January Looking back from today, January 2020 seems like an alternate reality where we could sit in theater audiences, eat in restaurants, and ride public transport. The Minneapolis Guthrie Theater’s artistic director, Joseph… Continue reading 12 Months of Microposts: 2020