UR instincts should not depend on the media’s “news cycle”. Yes, Borisnaro is out, but the damage he has done persists. On Thursday this report was released. Here are the highlights:

It takes several weeks if not a whole month for the impact of the present (surge) to become visible in these reports. Interesting times ahead.

As a last one for today’s nostalgic journey, that’s me in the buggy, maybe in 1984 (data stamp missing).

My grandfathers (no longer alive)

Looking or peeking or browsing through old physical albums, in the celebration of my birth I found this rare photo of my grandfathers (there’s a warm embrace but they were not close, except in this photograph)

“Color-corrected grandpas,” someone has sent me. “They looked way too orange.”

Via Techrights

From our wedding (and beyond) album

VER a decade ago the mainstream (corporate) media brainwashed people into thinking they needed to hand over their personal photos to surveillance companies. In return, they would get “likes”. Is this a good exchange? No!

Less than a decade ago I set up this album for our wedding. It wasn’t the first as I had already set up a similar album in 2004 (last updated 2005 or more than 17 years ago!).

A few weeks ago our wedding (and beyond) album exceeded 5,000,000 views. We didn’t need anything like Facebook/Instagram or Flickr to share our photos. This site is not self-hosted in the sense that I host it from home (sending large images upstream from a residential copper connection would not work); but at least it’s controlled by us at the domain level. More people should quit social control media (I did completely, only months ago) and invest in their own presence online. Stop renting. Take control. There is no such thing as free hosting. The Net is not a charitable project.

VER the past two decades I’ve done a lot of activism, which intensified over time. This Web site was created in 2002, modeled at first or branched off some academic format. I actually copied one of my lecturers’ layout, which was a simple heading, mug, followed by a list of interests. It was hosted in another domain, not this one. Months after I had started my Ph.D. (and having been asked about that other domain) I decided to register my surname in the .com namespace. Since then I’ve posted a lot of stuff here, but a lot more in other sites, which aren’t personal. As I recall it (vaguely), this site started in October 2002 and by 2003 it looked like this already. Not much has changed in that page since. schestowitz.com is generally quite outdated, most of the pages here are from my early 20s, but at least it’s still working and I’m very pleased with my webhost.