infrastructure – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Using an SD Card Drive of a Notebook as an Escape Pod Backup Drive

2025-02-03

If your notebook has an SD card drive, how about turning it into a separate micro-storage drive?
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Interesting older Movies (pre-2000)

2024-11-24

Sometimes it's strange which movies «the young generation» know and which they do not know. Well, here are a few that are well-worth watching.
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Free RSS Reader for Mac

2024-11-24

RSS readers are a great way to stay up-to-date with academic journals, blogs, YouTube videos, and much more.
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Downloading m3u8 streams as .mp4 Videos

2024-11-24

Using ffmpeg (or vlc) to download m3u8 streams.
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Since when is ChatGPT curious?

2024-10-16

Strange when the AI starts to asking you questions in return.
Image: Niffin transformation from «The Magicians»
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Google Translate in Travel

2024-08-17

Just a short shout-out to using Google Translate when you travel.
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Click-Bind Travel Notepad

2024-08-17

Having an alternative to travel information stored on a phone — a click-bind travel notepad.
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Oases of Green in Big Cities

2024-08-17

Short comment on the many small gardens/parks in Tokyo.
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Onsens

2024-08-17

A bit strange at first, but waow, super relaxing and an overall great idea: public baths.
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Paper instead of Digital Tools

2024-05-22

As powerful as digital tools are, sometimes paper works best. And the options today are incredible.
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The institution I work for, or rather the people officially representing it, have already distanced themselves from this blog. I find this unnecessary, as I’ve clearly stated in the «About this Blog» section that this is a personal blog.

Frankly, I have nothing but contempt for those who lack the backbone to address their concerns directly and instead resort to passive-aggressive tattling to others. Such behavior strikes me as not only cowardly, but also spineless, gutless, and wholly unprincipled. Moreover, these efforts are as pathetic as they are futile.

That said, I might listen if you present compelling arguments and evidence, as constructive feedback is always welcome. Who knows? We might even both gain something valuable from the interaction.

A comment for those seeking to use this site for personal gain: Given the increase in requests, let me be clear. I write on this blog because I want to. It’s my hobby, my playground. Sometimes people point me to interesting products/services and I write about them. But any request regarding ads or sponsored placements ends up the trash without a reply. And if you think something would be of interest, differentiate yourself from the spammers by referring to a posting — in an intelligent way. (I get enough auto-generated mails to identify them immediately.)

BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.

This blog is not focused on a single topic, or method. As long as it is relevant to improving creativity (or allowing it in the first place), it's fair game.
Some postings on this blog deal with freedom, as I think that we need freedom of thought, of speech, of association, etc. pp. to solve mankind's problems. Thus, some postings may seem a bit remote when it comes to organizing creativity. Freedom is, however, the bedrock of creativity.
The heterogeneity of the postings can make reading this blog a bit cumbersome, at least if you are only interested in one topic. You can either use the search function (above), or use the categories or the tags to narrow down the postings you see.