2013

e recently decided to go on a diet to shed of extra weight. In wintertime it’s not too bad to have more ‘padding’, but it’s generally healthy to have no spare fats.

We’re gradually getting older (like everybody else) and keeping conscious of fitness is critical for a lifetime of happiness, not physical hardships.

We recently began going to the park twice a week. It’s good exercise and it helps the birds there. The stadium nearby improved a lot, so it’s also a pleasant journey.

Can we reach our weight goals by year’s end? Stay tuned.

GAFAM news

recently published an article about Red Hat and it was accessed over 75,000 times. I didn’t know at the time the exposure would be that big. Had I known so, I’d make the article longer and more detailed.

Since then traffic in Techrights has been better than before, quite consistently. It’s now about 3 times higher than it was 3 years ago. I don’t think it’s all attributable to LLM bots. There’s definitely a lot of legitimate activity going on.

Astonishingly enough, I chose not to read any comment about that article Because “The Orange Site” is full of toxic “bros” who heckle what they link to, they don’t contribute much to the discussion.

Common saying

think it’s fair to say that I cover many topics these days. “In relative terms,” I wrote last week, “pages that mention the SLAPPs are a drop in the ocean, maybe 100 out of 3,700 or less than 3%.”

If one also counts links from Daily Links, then it’s probably even lower than 3%.

Nothing would please me more than being able to focus 100% to the key topics, not the thugs who try to prevent me from covering them.

think it’s no secret that applications have been made concerning an appeal in our case, a case that can last many more months. We have been saying for a while that this would happen, but the process is slow and cumbersome.

In the meantime we carry on as usual. Life goes on.

Disposable slippers no more?

t seems like we’ll be getting winter-like temperatures soon and I’ve not yet found an affordable heating body for some of the fish. Rianne has one in her tank, so I’ll probably need to get it running very soon, then move the tetras there.

Some news reports say the winter in Europe can become notoriously cold this year because of streams and climate change. I have no reasons to doubt that.

And that’s OK

have been writing a new series in Techrights since about 10 days ago. It concerns what I call the GGG brigade (“Restricted Boot” Garrett, “Microsoft Plagiarism” Graveley & “Gas The Jews” Lozza). It now looks like the next hearing on the matter will be at the end of this year or next year. I initially thought next year would only be needed for an appeal to the Court of Appeal, which is a slow process. As their site puts it: “The Civil Procedure Rules and their related practice directions govern the procedure for the initiation and progress of civil claims before the County Court, High Court and Court of Appeal (Civil Division) in England and Wales.”

For media, the County Court is not applicable unless it is about privacy.

I’ll likely say more about timetable or expected plan some time next week or next month.

He gets better at it all the time (and fast)

think we adopted Durian around 1.5 weeks ago and wrote about that days later. We’ve adopted several frail or very young birds lately. Durian is very distinguishable (Rianne spots him from a distant room) and he’s growing fast.

Today, for the first time, Durian not only found the courage to go on the door knob but also stay there when I open the door/s. I fed him with several different bottles. Sometimes he struggles a little with balance or tries to jump on the bottles. Sometimes Sweepy attacks him out of jealousy. But we’re getting there.

Durian is probably here to stay (long time). He’s only months old and can probably live for 15 years. Since we adopted him as a child/baby, we’re very attached to him already.