Stormgrass

Music

The obligatory end-of-year post

So, 2016, right? What a roller-coaster. Leonard Cohen died. Fortunately, he managed to release one final album, out of which emerged my personal song of the year. I hope you

Books

Through a "River of Ink"

"River of Ink", the debut novel of Brit Paul M.M. Cooper, is a marvel. I'd not heard of the man until he did his Reddit AMA a

Food

SundayMorning

EverNote

The Evernote conundrum

It's the middle of July, and for everyone familiar with the progression of months, they'll be aware that August will follow suit. For me that means that my yearly Evernote

chicken

Open Club Sandwich

There is this place in Vienna called "Oben", which basically means "at the top". It actually is at the top of a building, namely the main

Food

Brined pork belly

To everyone who knows me a bit, the revelation that I'm partial to pork roasts will be no revelation at all. But, I adhere to a kind of roast that's

films

Do androids dream of video-frames?

What happens when a machine learns to watch films? If you've ever wondered, you'll find this article fascinating. If you've never wondered, you'll find it interesting still.

blogging

New host, new platform and a whole lot of broken links

The last half year or so I've slowly made my way into blogging again. One of my plans was to consolidate all the various blogs that I forked out of

blogs

Slimming down the domain-portfolio

It’s 2016 and this is my first blog post of the year. I’m writing it on this blog that served me so well for almost 13 years. The

best of 2015

My best of everything in 2015

It’s been a while since I wrote end-of-year lists, but in light of my re-emergence on this very (digital) soil, I’ll give it a shot this year. I’

christmas

Of sausages, turkeys and trees

Before I started writing more again, the latest blogpost on here was one about Christmas. Short and quite to the point. Despite its almost three year tenure as this blog’

George Orwell

The right way to drink tea

According to venerated bard George Orwell, eleven factors determine the perfect cup of tea. My favourite is this one, not least because my family has been doing it the other

asides

How to Twitterize your blog (again)

One of the things that’s been irking me for the last couple of years is how easy it is to just throw a thought out there, just a single

featured

An ode to Pocket Casts

I’ve been listening to podcasts, on and off, for the better part of ten years now and while in the early days it was quite a bit cumbersome to

carousel

The demise of the add-on service

A few days ago users of Mailbox and Carousel, two very different services, saw e-mails in their inbox telling them about the impending sunsetting of said services. Mailbox was a

featured

Krampus and 994 posts

Looking through my logs, I realized that some of the things I wrote on here many years ago still get quite some views. And sometimes it’s for the funnest

EverNote

One list to rule them all

I have a thing for using apps that seemingly make my life easier, but which ultimately just take a large chunk out of my day. And I mean every day.

featured

A rebuilt Wordpress.com

I’m a big fan of self-hosted software, testament to which is a project called Self-hosted web I started a few years ago. Admittedly, I haven’t reviewed a whole

Apple

Some thoughts on the Internet

It’s been more than three years since I last published anything about technology (it was a post where I expressed my distaste for Instagram on Android, a notion that

hiking

A view from above

I recently went into the Styrian alps with my family and did some actual hiking. When I was younger, my father used to go hiking with me quite a bit.

back to the future

One board to rule them all

Everybody’s waiting for the hoverboard from Back to the Future II to become a reality. Lexus, of all companies, has now revealed their prototype. It’s a complex thing, as Wired explains: As we explained in June, the Lexus hoverboard relies on superconductors

blogging

Reviving the network

Having decided to focus more on writing on my blogs again, I’m realising just how many I’ve created over the years (and subsequently neglected). Over the last two

blogging

Rediscovering blogging

I’ve been blogging for more than 15 years now, and even though there have been gaps in output (most notably the current one which is somewhere in the three

bohemian rhapsody

Bohemian Gravity

There are Bohemian Rhapsody covers and there are pretty fantastic Bohemian Rhapsody covers. Add this to the latter group.

guitars

Tractor and guitars jamming

This is unusual, but it works so well: