Dear friends,
Welcome to this, the 180th edition of the Weekly Head Voices, in which I perform retrospection on the week from Monday September 30 to Sunday October 6, 2019.
To be more specific, this is mostly indirect retrospection, meaning that I think about and attempt to describe the thoughts I had about topics and events that might or might not have occurred in the period of time that this post is ostensibly looking back on.
(WARNING: not your typical WHV post ahead. CONTINUE AT YOUR OWN RISK.)
In this, the 179th edition of the WHV, I look back at the week from Monday, September 24 to Sunday, September 29, 2019.
We spent slightly more than half of this time on vacation in the Cederberg mountains.
This Cederberg mountains frame and support a truly beautiful place, with as one of its many additional features the fact that mobile phone reception and other forms of modern digital communication have not managed to penetrate all that much.
GOU#2, age 9, painted this unicorn for all of us. Sometimes you need more
unicorn in your life, especially when you’ve reviewed photos for the past two
weeks and came up with nothing and you start doubting everything. Now I
believe!
This edition of the WHV looks back at the two weeks from Monday September 9 to Sunday September 22, 2019.
At the start of 2016, I published an overview of my note-taking strategy then.
In the intervening three and a half years, my note-taking has further evolved to adapt to my changing environment, and the underlying “system” has co-evolved to support this.
Although note-taking is at the core of the system, a more accurate description of its current purpose would be personal knowledge management.
What you’ll also find in this post, is the culmination of many years of lessons learned trying to “keep a lab journal”.
This edition of the WHV looks back at the two weeks from Monday August 26 to Sunday September 8, 2019.
The birthday mentioned previously, along with the portentous visit of a good friend from afar, led to at least two small celebrations (that I know of) with a bunch of us that have been friends for more than 25 years now.
Oh hai there friends.
This WHV covers the weeks from Monday July 29 to Sunday August 25.
This period had more than its fair share of lows and highs.
On Saturday, August 3 we lost one of our clan mothers, quite unexpectedly.
It’s hard to find the words to describe the sudden emptiness left behind by a loved one.
Good evening fellow humans.
This is Head Voice #37 reporting for duty. I have been instructed to perform retrospection on the period of time from Monday July 22 to Sunday July 28.
Due to the ongoing hibernation and consequent lack of interesting events to talk about, this should be short.
I spent a precious hour or two (or perhaps three, in which case I am ashamed) performing experiments to try and understand how GMail, fastmail web, thunderbird and the iOS mail.app encode quoting in HTML email replies.
Hello friends.
Although these Weekly Head Voices look back at the week from Monday July 15 to Sunday July 21, it is already Wednesday, July 24, as I write this.
Let’s go for a slightly less anxious start than the previous edition did:
Well hello there folks!
A week ago, I made a deliberate decision not to post a WHV, as I really did not have much to report on.
YARRRRGGGHHHH it’s now more than a month after the previous WHV saw the light of day.
This draft, intially intended to see the light of day not much more than a week after 171, has been languishing in a cold jail of electrons up in the cloud somewhere for the past weeks, while life was doing its thing, you know, inexorably marching ahead.