Micro

Microblogging

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Microblogging is a combination of blogging and instant messaging that allows users to create short messages to be posted and shared with an audience online. Social platforms like X (formerly Twitter) have become extremely popular forms of this type of blogging. These short messages can come in a variety of content formats including text, images, video, audio, and hyperlinks.

Formerly known as a “Quickie” tag here, I’ve re-assigned a “Micro” tag to every microblogging post I published. Again, think Twitter but without the algorithm and adverts. If you only want to see these quick snippets then, I have generated a “Micro” page at the top of this website. Or, click on the two lines in the upper right hand corner on your mobile. This will display a collection of Micro posts to date.

Apple ID

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I am about to merge, consolidate and liquidate older IDs in favor of a new, more permanent Apple ID. I’ve made a mess of things these past few months. I hope for minimal damage and quick recovery process if it does happen.

Night + Day

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I geeked out just now watching my website switch from night mode to day mode automatically according to when the sun is scheduled to rise. Thanks to my Open Weather api script.

6:47am
6:48am

Well, That’s Sorted

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While going through all of my files, I discovered they were all scattered across multiple hard drives, backed up multiple times. A mess. I decided to make a master file and import all data into it. Then I started to weed out all the quadruplicates. Now the master archive is backed up and synced to the external hard drives, the file server and the cloud. It only took me sixteen years.

Yeesh.

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Just going through a few back up hard drives and re-discovering some past writings. I need to sort and get them all into one place instead of scattered. Yeesh, what a nightmare I’ve created.

 Issues

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Having multiple  accounts should be nice and simple but leave it to me to complicate matters. Despite documenting all credentials and passwords, toggling back and forth has been frustrating. Yes, I blame myself, not .

Experiment

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I want to do an experiment soon to see if I can go without my iPhone for one day. I think we are too dependent on this damned thing. I’ll set up some alternatives that I use daily and then monitor the data with Apple Screentime.

What Have I Done? (2)

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With Apple support, I have gained partial access to some devices except my MacBook and AirPods.

Apparently they are signed in on another, older Apple ID.

I have been attempting to add/drop devices onto old ID and try again on new ID but now the password suddenly fails on the old ID? I call BS as I wait one hour for a security reset.

Getting closer to all analog all the time.

What Have I Done?

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I have made a mess of things while trying to simplify.

I let a domain name expire that also had a custom email address attached to it and according to my domain registrar, lost both to a third party who scooped up that domain name so I no longer have access to it.

Therefore preventing me to do what I need to do with some of my Apple devices and old Apple ID.

Henceforth, this current domain, chrisdenbow.website and its associated email address, hello [at] chrisdenbow.website is here to stay forever.

If I want simplicity, then I really should take a few steps backward and just go analog everything and I am tempted to do so! (not yet.)

F1 2024

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Subscription renewed and I am ready for a new season with 24 races around the world. Up first, Bahrain.

Mercedes + McLaren