https://thefoolwithapen.com/ Recent content on The Fool With a Pen Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:54:12 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0401-12h54/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:54:12 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0401-12h54/ No, I’m not referring to the recent buzz regarding what the 47th President has to say about France (and about Europe, and about NATO, and about the world and, obviously, about himself). There is too much, firing in so many directions, to even try to keep track of his many deep thought(s). More humbly, I’m referring to a previous and much more obscure US President, that once said: Every man has two countries, his own and France. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0330-05h41/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:41:11 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0330-05h41/ My last contribution, with less typos, in a discussion about the way people seem to use their hatred of one another to decide how to vote If people are emotionally hurt, they abuse themself (throw themselves into work etc). What do you think would stop people from hurting/abusing others? That, I could not tell. What I can tell is that education was supposed to help fight that by helping all of us (not just ’them’) learn to think more… adequately when faced with a problem. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0309-09h29/ Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:29:27 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0309-09h29/ My answer to this question. No one. I don’t believe in ’evil’ persons or groups of people. Nor do I believe in ‘good’ persons, considered as the opposite of evil. In other words: I don’t think “we” are the good guys and I certainly don’t think “they” (our supposed adversaries) are the bad ones. That notion of evil (opposed to good or right) was, and still is to this day, too often abused to silent or even to murder people, individuals or entire groups of population, that some other person or group of persons hate or whose ideas/work/questions or even mere lifestyle they want to get rid of. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0307-18h26/ Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:26:26 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0307-18h26/ Ce matin, dans les rues de Paris, j’ai remarqué des cerisiers en fleurs. Si tôt en mars, ça m’a assez étonné pour que je le remarque. Ai-je oublié de poster l’obligatoire photo d’un cerisier en fleurs, ou suis-je à ce point mesquin que je veuille garder pour moi seul ce moment de pure beauté ? D’abord, il y a le fait que de nombreux pétales étaient déjà tombés au sol. Sur le macadam humide des trottoirs ils faisaient une bouillie grisâtre tout à l’opposé de l’idée brillamment colorée qu’on se fait d’un cerisier en fleurs. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0227-05h55/ Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:55:29 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0227-05h55/ Les oiseaux chantent ce matin. Il fait encore un peu trop frais pour ouvrir en grand et en profiter à plein, mais il fait déjà assez doux pour entrouvrir cette fenêtre et me régaler de la compagnie des oiseaux. Surtout qu’ils ne sont plus très nombreux par ici, mais ils chantent toujours, s’interpellant les uns les autres, peut-être se séduisant ? Hélas, à peine entamés leurs chants sont déjà voilés derrière le vacarme des premières voitures qui ont traversé la rue. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0224-09h21/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:21:30 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0224-09h21/ For years, I’ve been carrying a pocket notebook everywhere I go. I still do. But for the last couple weeks I’ve also ben using one of these: It’s a digital audio recorder I use to record quick notes on the go. More specifically, this one is the Sony ICD-PX312. It’s a lovely name for sure, but I simply cvall it Sonic. The device dates back from around 2010 or maybe 2011. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0215-11h46/ Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:46:21 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0215-11h46/ Je lis ce volume des poésies de Jules Laforgue, paru au Mercure de France en 1913 (7ème édition, PDF). Je suis plongé dans ‘Les sanglots de la terre’, le premier des reccueils groupés dans cette anthologiue censée réunir toutes les poésie de Laforgue. J’aime beaucoup sa poésie et je n’en savais rien jusqu’alors car je n’avais jamais rien lu de Laforgue. Mais ce n’est pas de ses poèmes que je voulais vous parler, c’est de la couverture jaune pâle typique du Mercure de France de cette période, et de sa date de parution: MCMXIII, 1913. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0214-21h02/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:02:02 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0214-21h02/ Voilà un billet que j’aurais aimé ne jamais devoir écrire. Encore moins devoir un écrire un second. Sommes-nous vraiment tombés à ce niveau d’imbécilité crasse? Vivons-nous dans un de ces nombreux et très médiocres films de super-héros hollywoodiens où l’on prêche à coups d’effets spéciaux assourdissants que c’est OK de tuer ceux qu’on aime pas parce que, ’nous’, nous sommes les gentils et ’eux’, ceux que l’on tue, ce sont des méchants et qu’ils le méritent. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0205-19h29/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:29:25 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0205-19h29/ Pour planter le décor : je ne suis pas croyant. Pourtant, on trouve une Bible dans ma bibliothèque (plusieurs, dans différentes langues et dans différentes éditions), ainsi qu’un Coran et d’autres livres religieux. Je ne suis pas croyant mais j’ai été élevé par des curés et j’ai grandi en lisant la Bible. C’est un livre plus intéressant que les caricatures et les sarcasmes que certains apprécient faire à son sujet, surtout quand ils ne l’ont pas lu. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0123-10h45/ Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:45:54 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0123-10h45/ When it’s simpler to trash books than to sell them used or even, I don’t know, to donate them to someone else, to an association. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0121-15h09/ Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:09:48 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0121-15h09/ Havel called this “living within a lie.” The system’s power comes not from its truth but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source: when even one person stops performing — when the greengrocer removes his sign — the illusion begins to crack. (…) You cannot “live within the lie” of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0116-18h19/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:19:42 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0116-18h19/ L’une des raisons qui fait que j’utilise encore YouTube, ce sont les archives de l’INA (elles sont également disponibles sur le site de lINA directement mais la recherche n’y est pas… aussi efficace. Bref, je trouve plus facilement le genre de vidéos de l’INA que je recherche sur YT. Ce que je regarde le plus pour le moment, ce sont des vidéos consacrées au Paris d’avant. Le Paris qui va de la fin des années 60 à la fin des années 80 à peu près : mon enfance et ma jeunesse, quoi, qui elles n’étaient pas parisiennes du tout. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0110-20h41/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:41:42 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0110-20h41/ I don’t purchase Amazon ebooks anymore but I still own an old kindle Paperwhite that is working great (no matter how much I disagree with the way Amazon is destroying privacy and trying to redefine the notiion of ‘owning what one buys’, the Kindle itself was always nice to use). So, why not re-purpose it as an… epub reader, for the occasional ebook I may want to read from time to time in the future? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0110-14h05/ Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:05:34 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0110-14h05/ S’il y a bien un continent où le sentiment de rupture devrait l’emporter, c’est l’Europe. Cœur battant de la puissance impériale jusqu’au mitan du XXe siècle, où cette puissance a précipité le continent dans l’horreur et la destruction, l’Europe a vu naître avec l’Union européenne le premier projet politique post-impérial, fondé sur le droit et la coopération entre États. Alors que des missiles russes dévastent encore l’Ukraine, une question réellement nouvelle est posée aux Européens : comment survivre au retour des impérialismes, en refusant d’entrer dans leur logique mortifère ? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0109-07h32/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:32:15 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0109-07h32/ My contribution to this discussion What do you think the internet will be like in a few years? Why? There will one Internet for us and one for the powerful people. Theirs will be what they want it to be, while ours will be: Without any right to privacy (no pseudonym like mine, no VPN, no email aliases and obviously no true cryptography or fully encrypted whatever service: they will legally own the keys and the know the ID of all of us), and with constant tracking of our every moves and words. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0107-05h29/ Wed, 07 Jan 2026 05:29:47 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0107-05h29/ Here is my contribution to the discussion: I only read print magazines & newspapers (I don’t like being tracked while I read) I would recommend… any newspapers and magazine that challenge one’s own habits and certainties. I won’t list any of those I read, but I can tell I read a few that are at the complete opposite of my own preferences and convictions, personal and political. It helps me avoid believing I know anything for sure. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0105-21h15/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:15:51 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0105-21h15/ J’ai trouvé cette carte postale, cachée derrière la couverture d’une vieille édition des Œuvres de Platon (deux volumes, la Pléiade). Le petit mot au dos de la carte est daté de 1972 et, malgré qu’il soit signé, il reste muet quant à l’identité du signataire et du destinataire : Abbaye de Senanque/ 84 - Gordes. Le clocher de l’église abbatiale A celui qui m’a fait naître. Ces livres sont un symbole. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0105-15h30/ Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:30:46 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0105-15h30/ The winter of democracies is coming, as we can all witness. It’s all snowy. Gloomy. Windy. And cold. It sure is getting chilly around here too, but good old France has experienced far worse weather, quite often. I wonder if people in the US also start feeling this very winter is coming for them too? I don’t know about you, but when it starts getting cold and sad outside, to keep myself warm and happy there is little I prefer over a warm cup of tea or, once in a while, a glass of (a good French) wine, while I’m reading a (good French) book. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0103-11h00/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:00:01 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0103-11h00/ Hubris, as per Wikipedia: extreme or excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence and complacency, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance. Hubris, as per the USA edit Jan. 4th: deleted some useless rant. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0101-11h16/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:16:55 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2026/0101-11h16/ This year, like last year I will keep on working on improving my health. By walking more, by eating less and by eating better. I will keep on trying to be a better companion to my spouse, by making myself more available and more attentive. I will keep on using the simplest tools I can, to get the job done. Analog tools, if at all possible. I will keep on reading printed books every single day, at least a few pages or a few lines, no matter what. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251228-082710/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:27:10 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251228-082710/ Je me suis posé une question bête, juste à l’instant : à quoi j’utilise le temps que je passe sur Internet? Alors, ce n’est pas uniquement du temps passé à faire des conneries, il y a des choses intéressantes aussi, mais c’est quand même un gros paquet de temps consacré à ce qui, au final, reste des conneries. Du temps perdu, donc. Du coup, je me suis demandé si j’étais capable de ne plus perdre ce temps et, si oui, est-ce que j’en ferais un meilleur usage, ou pas ? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251227-195518/ Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:55:18 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251227-195518/ It’s not often I share a link to a YouTube video. I thought this one may be as worthy of your time as it was of mine: Fran Lebowitz: Reflections on Austen. A book is not supposed to be a mirror, it is supposed to be a door. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251219-085317/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:53:17 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251219-085317/ Que dit cette immense publicité en caractères gras sur ce camion Darty (une enseigne de vente d’électroménager et d’électronique, si vous ne connaissez pas)? Elle dit que Darty nous suggère de nous abonner à son service de dépannage pour faire des économies. Ca m’a interpellé. Je me suis soudainement rappelé qu’il n’y a pas si longtemps de ça encore, lorsqu’un appareil tombait en panne on avait cette étrange habitude 1) s’il était sous garantie de faire jouer la garantie qui était gratuite, 2) s’il n’était plus sous garantie et que nous n’avions pas le savoir-faire pour le réparer nous-même de pousser la porte de la boutique d’un réparateur et, uniquement quand nous avions besoin, donc, de le payer pour effectuer ce travail. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251219-072722/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:27:22 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251219-072722/ Ma dernière contribution dans une discussion qui, sans surprise, dérive sur tout autre chose que le sujet de départ (plus d’IA dans Firefox) vers quelque chose de peut-être plus intéressant: que signifient nos choix, les plus simples et les plus quotidiens? (Les passages que je cite sont de PatteBlanche, que vous retrouverez facilement en suivant le lien pour lire nos échanges) C’est pas seulement ça : les services et activités sur internet en dehors des grosses boites ne sont pas seulement minoritaires, ils sont invisibilisés. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251216-183935/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:39:35 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251216-183935/ The shadow of His loss drew like eclipse, Darkening the world. We have lost him: he is gone: We know him now: all narrow jealousies Are silent; and we see him as he moved, How modest, kindly, all-accomplished, wise, With what sublime repression of himself, And in what limits, and how tenderly; Not swaying to this faction or to that; Not making his high place the lawless perch Of winged ambitions, nor a vantage-ground https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251211-213004/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:30:04 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251211-213004/ A user feedback regarding Amazon customer services that is sadly echoing my own experience with the French branch of Amazon customer service. It is also one of the reasons why a few years ago I decided it was time to move most of my business away from online giant corps and from the Web, back to local businesses. I don’t think ‘enshitification’ was a thing when I started realizing things were not betting better, but the feeling was there. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251210-062800/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:28:00 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251210-062800/ Voilà ma participation à ce thread sur Lemmy: “Il est temps d’envisager sérieusement de quitter Windows” : l’appel de 20 associations pour passer sous Linux. Version brève : Respect du matériel. Linux tourne comme une horloge même sur des vieux ordis, ce qui réduit la pression à toujours acheter de nouveaux modèles et se débarrasser de l’ancien. La partie GNU dans GNU/Linux. C’est-à-dire la partie philosophique (et la partie licence) du logiciel qui assure à l’utilisateur du logiciel une série de droits fondamentaux, comme de pouvoir partager le logiciel avec d’autres utilisateurs, le droit de l’utiliser librement c-à-d pour faire ce qu’il veut sans ‘oui, mais pas pour faire ça’. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251203-194701/ Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:47:01 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251203-194701/ 1972 avait été déclarée année internationale du livre, par l’UNESCO. C’est très sympa, mais je n’en savais rien jusqu’à ce je tombe sur cette édition en deux volumes des Mémoires d’outre-tombe de Chateaubriand—pour moins de la moitié du prix d’un café au bar du coin… J’en ai déjà parlé, et même si ça n’a rien à voir avec ce qui motive ce billet, ça commence sérieusement à m’obséder le prix dérisoire des livres d’occasions. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251128-154007/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:40:08 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251128-154007/ No idea where I could put that but I don’t want to see it sink into oblivion over there on Lemmy. So, here it is. It’s my reply to the question what surpises you the most about yourself?. The part I wanted to keep is the ranting ‘bonus’ I added after my short reply. It’s all about reading and why young people themselves should not allow the adults around them—be it their teachers a their school or the whole educative system, or their parents—to deprive them of accessing what is probably the most powerful tool ever devised (I compared reading books to a cheat code in my comment and it is that, and much more). https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251127-191803/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:18:03 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251127-191803/ Two posts the same day? Yep. Consider that my first attempt at doing a Black Friday promotion. Save that I discounted it a tad too much, as I keep my content fully free of charge. Also, it’s not really a second post. It’s a second thought about that book I just mentioned. This time it’s not about its past experiences with other readers. It’s about its reliability. It’s a nice word, reliable. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251127-172008/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:20:08 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251127-172008/ A week ago or so, I entered a used bookstore in some town I was stuck in for an hour. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t expecting to find much as, from the outside, that store looked more like some militant headquarter than your usual bookshop, but it was real cold outside and it was a bookshop. I pushed the door open. I said hi and looked around with a hungry smile. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251018-144756/ Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:47:57 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251018-144756/ I already mentioned using the iPad as a makeshift Internet radio (in French) but, as much as I decided to steer away from proprietary e-readers for their lack of privacy and for our lack of real ownership of the ebooks we ‘purchase’, the main reason I still use an iPad is that it’s an excellent PDF reader. If not the best. I regularly read out-of-print editions, or simply real old books of many centuries ago, that would cost too much to own a physical copy of but that are legally available as PDF files. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251009-221620/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:16:20 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20251009-221620/ “Très instructif comme expérience.” C’est mon commentaire dans cette discussion où l’auteur a partagé un lien vers un outil permettant de tester notre capacité à discerner les photos et les vidéos créées par IA de ‘vraies’ photos et vidéos : Reality Check. Sans surprise, j’ai un meilleur score de détection pour les vidéos faites par IA que pour les photos, mais je n’ai pas le moindre doute que très prochainement les deux seront parfaitement impossible à distinguer de ‘vraies’ photos et vidéos. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250929-091556/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:15:56 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250929-091556/ Chaque semaine, le serveur francophone de Lemmy, Jlailu, pose la même question. Histoire de participer (c’est pas comme si nous croulions sous le nombre d’utilisateurs) je réponds parfois, partageant mes lectures de la semaine. Je me suis dit que ce ne serait pas idiot de garder une copie de ce genre de partage sur le blog, au cas où le serveur Jlailu cesserait de fonctionner ou, plus probablement, si je décidais jamais de supprimer mon compte. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250924-205441/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:54:41 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250924-205441/ Almost without any modification, I could use this as a manifesto for my own humble part of the Web as, unknowingly up tonight, I have adopted 6 of the 7 suggestions: This Page is Designed to Last, 2019, by Jeff Huang (via mesa, on Piefed.social). https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250918-194658/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:46:58 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250918-194658/ On Time Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummet’s pace; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and vain, And meerly mortal dross; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. For, when as each thing bad thou hast entombed, And, last of all, thy greedy self consumed, Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250913-162322/ Sat, 13 Sep 2025 16:23:22 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250913-162322/ I’m talking about the murder of Charlie Kirk, if you’re wondering. There is no shortage of murders happening every single day around the world, right? So, why am I reacting to this one? Heck, I’m not even from the US. So, why? It’s because of those people celebrating his death, rejoicing online like if it was some happy event, some great news to have assassinated Charlie Kirk. People with whom, naively, I thought we shared some common ground and values. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250803-102242/ Sun, 03 Aug 2025 10:22:42 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250803-102242/ ex-aequo with or maybe even a tad more than Les aventures d’Astérix le Gaulois, Calvin and Hobbes is my absolute undisputed favorite comic. I don’t know why, this silly comment I just posted over there on Lemmy kinda mattered, to me at the very least, and that I should put it here too. Don’t know about you guys, but it always both shocks and delights me to see Hobbes represented as a plushie. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250803-065841/ Sun, 03 Aug 2025 06:58:41 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250803-065841/ Sur mon bureau, à part l’ordinateur (que je garde éteint aussi souvent que possible), ma seule source de distraction est un poste de radio portatif. C’est un poste tout simple, même pas stéréo et sans aucune fonction avancée. On l’a acheté il y a bien 15 ans de ça dans un Carrefour (il est de la marque Carrefour). Il fait le taff et, surtout, il est simple d’emploi, ce qui le rend très agréable à utiliser. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250729-132909/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:29:09 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250729-132909/ It’s surprising how the Web instantly becomes quieter and less crowded when you turn off JavaScript. This is one of the experiments I’m doing right now, trying to reduce the amount of content I want to rea, to watch or to listen to. The experiment is quite simple to do: I turn off JavaScript by default and only turn it for a website if 1) that website doesn’t work without it and 2) I still really want to access its content. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250725-203529/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 20:35:29 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250725-203529/ I just had this stupid realization while closing the 20 or 30-odd tabs I had open in my browser for way too long, most of them containing some blog post or an article waiting for me to read it. We (I) have too much to read. Quite the scoop, right? Not really. The thing that bugged me is to realize from all those waiting-to-be-read-articles I had just closed, I missed… none. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250715-094859/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:48:59 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250715-094859/ Durant ce long WE, en plus de souhaiter un très joyeux anniversaire à cette chère bonne vieille république française, j’ai fabriqué mon second prototype de carnet modulable. C’est 100% du papier et du carton de réemploi, auquel j’ai ajouté deux petits anneaux pour maintenir les feuilles perforées. Les trous ont été faits avec une perforatrice standard (pas besoin d’équipement spécial, donc) et les anneaux permettent de (presque facilement) réorganiser les feuilles à ma convenance… façon Filofax mais sans l’encombrement et la rigidité (le carnet peut être ouvert à 360° sans souci et sans déformation), et il peut-être aussi mince ou aussi épais qu’on le désire (suffit de changer le diamètre des anneaux). https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250712-101725/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:17:25 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250712-101725/ Ouais. Je suis tellement content de mon agenda papier que je viens d’acheter son successeur pour l’année prochaine. Même modèle (Pocket), même marque (Bezend) mais pas la même couleur ;) Je ne touche rien pour vous parler d’eux, la compagnie ne sait même pas que j’existe. Et ceci n’est ni un unboxing ni une review. C’est juste un très chouette agenda papier, un bon outil de travail si vous recherchez quelque chose d’analogique. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250709-071304/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:13:04 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250709-071304/ Comme le chien court après son ombre, ainsi la présence, le contact, la possession demeurent indéfiniment au-dessous de la soif de présence, de contact et de posession. L’idée de l’autre, son image s’est faite plus réelle que lui. (Paul Valéry, Amor, V, in Mélange, Gallimard NRF, 1941) Valéry parle d’amour avec une justesse qui m’a d’autant plus frappée que je n’avais jamais lu Valéry avant d’ouvrir ce recueil un peu au hasard chez un bouquiniste du coin. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250623-210528/ Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:05:28 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250623-210528/ Récemment, j’ai regardé deux chaînes d’information en continu. Si vous ne me connaissez pas, disons que c’est aussi inhabituel que de voir une huître remporter sprint sur 100 m. Ces deux chaînes ne parlaient presque que des bombardements en Iran et, tandis que je les écoutais ressasser la même information en boucle, j’éprouvais un réel malaise. D’abord, j’ai pensé que ce n’était que ma lassitude de les entendre répéter toujours la même (absence d’) information. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250622-163817/ Sun, 22 Jun 2025 16:38:18 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250622-163817/ La température est plus clémente aujourd’hui, à peine 28 et quelques, on se sentirait presque bien. Presque. La radio nous informe que les Américains, sous le leadership éclairé et bienveillant de son charismatique président, ont réussi à détruire tout ce qu’ils voulaient détruire là-bas, en Iran. Je ne suis pas physicien nucléaire, et je ne suis pas politologue, mais je ne peux pas m’enlever de l’esprit qu’en réalisant ce raid, en détruisant peut-être pour de bon la menace nucléaire iranienne — je me souviens de ces terribles armes de destruction massives qui devait se cacher un peu partout en Irak, nous disaient-ils alors — les Américains ont détruit bien plus que que quelques bêtiments et quelques armes, et pas seulement en Iran. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250620-235304/ Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:53:04 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250620-235304/ It’s almost midnight. I just had a look and my spouse has finally fallen asleep, completely naked, in our bedroom, next to my office. I’m left alone awaken in our small and overheated apartment. The temperature is at 29.8°C or so… OK, it’s a cheap thermometer that’s sitting right on my desk, one may read a degree lower than that but it’s still hot for a June midnight evening, here in Paris. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250423-084939/ Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:49:39 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250423-084939/ Mon choix d’une méthode de travail essentiellement analogique — écriture à la main, avec stylo et papier, lecture de livres et de textes imprimés et prise de notes manuscrites, entre autres choses — peu sembler incongru. Pourtant, je pense que c’est un choix plutôt réfléchi. Il est vrai que c’est d’abord un choix idéologique, le fruit de mon inquiétude croissante face à la disparition rapide de toute notion d’intimité et de vie privée sur nos machines, dans ces applications et ces services en ligne dont nous dépendons de plus en plus et que nous contrôlons de moins en moins. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250422-192847/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 19:28:48 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250422-192847/ J’ai été scolarisé dans une école catholique. École dont tous les enseignants, ça me semble important de le mentionner, se sont montrés d’excellentes personnes en même temps que d’excellents pédagogues, pour lesquels ma gratitude est aussi vive aujourd’hui qu’il y a presque 40 ans de cela quand je quittai leur établissement pour entrer à l’université, jeune étudiant pas trop mal préparé grâce à leurs efforts. Pourtant, je ne suis pas catholique et je ne me suis jamais considéré croyant. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250402-210448/ Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:04:49 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250402-210448/ How does it feel to realize (USA)merica still is populated by excited cow-boys and colons that consider the rest of the world as their new Far-West? An empty and free land for them to appropriate and exploit as they see fit. And since our planet is a ball—sorry to break it to you, flat-earthers— that also means that new Far-West is the entire world. No matter the ‘savages’, like they used to call them in Westerns, or natives that are already living there. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250325-185247/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:52:47 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250325-185247/ Je viens de récupérer un “lot de numéros de la Nouvelle Revue Française” que j’avais acheté d’occasion en ligne. Il était proposé à un prix vraiment très raisonnable, ce qui en faisait une excellent manière de parcourir quelques vieux numéros d’une revue que je n’ai que très occasionnellement lue. L’annonce indiquait qu’il y aurait au moins dix numéros fournis, avec “quelques” extra. Le moins que je puisse dire c’est que je n’ai pas été trompé. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250323-090833/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:08:33 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250323-090833/ If you’re anything like me, you often switch between audio outputs. Depending what I do, I will either play audio through a pair of wired headphones, or my noise cancelling Bose or my Airpods, if not directly through the the speakers connected to the PC. Changing audio output under Linux Mint is not complicated but it still is many clicks away and it obviously could be a lot less clicks if there was some kind of shortcut in the menu bar. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250224-105550/ Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:55:50 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250224-105550/ Le temps s’est radouci depuis quelques jours et, ce matin, ça m’a donné très envie d’ouvrir en grand les fenêtres pour respirer un peu d’air frais. Moins de cinq minutes plus tard, j’avais refermé toutes les fenêtres et je soupirais d’aise dans le calme retrouvé. Nous habitons Paris, pas loin d’un grand axe de circulation ce qui signifie que dès 6-7h du matin c’est beaucoup de véhicules qui passent sans interruption. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250223-141740/ Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:17:40 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250223-141740/ If you’re reading this blog, you have noticed I’ve started posting more content in French. Something that came as a complete surprise for me, but something I won’t try to resist either. It almost feels like if I was falling in love again with my native language again and I won’t deny it. For now, I’ve been prefacing each French blog post title with a ‘FR:’ tag to make it clearer what to expect. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250218-073016/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:30:16 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250218-073016/ Je n’ai pas lu beaucoup cette semaine. Lectures terminées Pas grand-chose mis à part La maison enragée, une nouvelle de Richard Matheson que je n’ai pas aimée. J’apprécie généralement plutôt bien le travail de Matheson. Je lavais découvert pour sa participation à quelques-uns des meilleurs épisodes de The Twilight Zone mais j’ai vraiment commencé à l’apprécier il y a quelques années en lisant son roman I’m Legend qui sert d’inspiration à tant de films éponymes qui à peu près tous, si pas tous — si vous ne l’avez pas lu, croyez-moi sur parole — passent à des années-lumières de la réflexion (sur la normalité) à laquelle nous invite Matheson dans son roman. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250216-174136/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:41:36 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250216-174136/ I have not purchased a single ebook from Amazon in well over a year. So, it’s not like I needed more motivation to stay away from them as a book seller but removing the ability to download your ebooks (and transfer them through USB) is a step further in denying book buyers—it means us—full ownership of the books they buy. One the same topic: Who Owns the Ebook I Purchase? Am I Reading That Ebook or Am I Being Read by That Ebook? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250211-204112/ Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:41:12 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250211-204112/ Un cri. Je relève les yeux de mon bouquin, Michel Strogoff. Plus exactement je me rends à nouveau disponible au monde autour de moi et, un instant, j’oublie les cavalcades dans l’Oural. J’écoute. Ce n’est plus le bruit de la tempête qui les cloue sur place à coups de tonnerre monstrueux, de bourrasques insoutenables et d’une pluie torrentielle a été remplacé par. Je tends l’oreille. C’est un long cri. Le cri est repris plusieurs fois. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250208-120938/ Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:09:38 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250208-120938/ Lectures terminées ‘Le tour d’écrou’ de Henry James Cette (longue) nouvelle est considérée un classique et a connu pas mal d’adaptations. J’ai pas réussi à entrer dedans. En clair, je suis emmerdé et j’ai du me forcer pour aller jusqu’au bout et, en arrivant à la dernière phrase, ma seule réaction a été ‘Gné? C’est tout?’. Pas réussi à éprouver la moindre empathie pour les personnages, surtout pas les deux enfants qui sont censés être en danger d’être ‘corrompus’ par ces deux méprisables fantômes. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250202-201624/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:16:24 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250202-201624/ Reposer mon stylo. Fermer mon livre. Allumer l’ordinateur. Interrompre ma lecture de Rousseau, le temps d’assister au lancement de la fusée Falcon 9, en direct sur YouTube. J’apprécie la rencontre inopinée (incongrue ?) d’un texte rédigé aux alentours de 1750, très certainement écrit à la plume et éclairé à la chandelle mais qui reste d’une actualité frappante, aujourd’hui peut-être plus que jamais, avec cette image d’une fusée qui représente ce que l’ingénierie et l’audace peuvent faire de mieux, qui s’éloigne à une vitesse folle en direction de la Lune — puisque c’est sa destination, où elle y déposera un petit robot. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250130-081601/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:16:01 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250130-081601/ Update Sept 30: Kite is now officialy released as Kagi News. Kagi, the company behind my search engine of choice, is offering Kite their open source news feed that focuses on providing… actual news. Unlike what we’ve grown used to, this one is not an attention grabber nor a buzz addict that will crap out meaningless content. I’ll let Kite introduce itself: Driven by relentless ad monetization, news has become mental junk food - easy to consume but toxic to our minds, triggering stress responses and interrupting deep thought. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250124/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:05:29 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250124/ It has been a year since I shared my reasons to ditch ebooks and get back to printed books and it just occurred to me that it works. It’s works wonderfully. Since I made that switch back to print neither Amazon or Apple, or anyone else for that matter, could tell what I’ve been reading, or study my reading habits. They don’t know, and that’s how it should always have been. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250115/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 09:31:47 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2025/20250115/ I own a Mac Studio and a small-form HP Elite Mini G6 desktop PC. They’re both tiny, they’re both powerful and silent. They’re both great machines. I bought the Mac when it was released by Apple (it’s the M1 Pro Max or something like that, I can’t recall when that was). It was a good chunk of money but it was worth it, fully and easily replacing and outperforming the old Mac Pro I had been using for years. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20241124-172155/ Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:21:56 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20241124-172155/ A lot of the stuff we watch my spouse and I are on DVD. And since we have not owned a TV set since the very early 00s, we watch our discs on an old laptop plugged on a larger external display, and on that laptop we plugged an old Samsung USB DVD Drive that has been working great for many years, and in almost complete silence. For the last year or so, the drive started showing signs of weakness. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20241111-152920/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:29:20 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20241111-152920/ I seldom buy new books nowadays. Many years ago, I was an avid book reader and an even more avid book collector. I was very much into rare editions and all that fancy stuff, custom book bindings and other niceties like that. That was many years ago. I am not anymore. Today, I am just an avid book reader. I have lost any urge to own the books I read. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20241009-111146/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 11:11:46 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20241009-111146/ To change a little, here is an article about something related to the computer: cloud storage and privacy. The great news is you don’t even have to read the article, the title says it all: I’ve switched to Filen as my cloud provider. Thx for stopping by, see you next time! What? Why did I change to a new cloud provider and which one was I using prior to Filen? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240830-111531/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 11:15:31 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240830-111531/ That went totally unnoticed—even by me—but a few days ago was the 4th month anniversary of my switching back to a paper agenda, in April. Here is an update on the analog agenda situation. Do I still use a paper agenda? Yes. Was there any issue? None as far managing appointments were concerned. I had to change the agenda itself recently, though. The first one was a tad too… tall and that few extra millimeters were a constant issue to keep it in my pocket. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240826-213718/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 21:37:18 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240826-213718/ I like to visit a nearby thrift store every time I walkby. They have a small but densely packet book section. They even have a couple shelves dedicated to books in English, which is great and not a given even here in Paris Recently, I found these two illustrated Sherlock Holmes volumes. Each book is supposed to offer a facsimile of the original stories as they were published with their illustrations. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240824b/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:44:51 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240824b/ Depuis quelques années, les cours du Collège de France — si vous ne connaissez pas, le Collège est une institution assez unique en son genre, et pas son seulement par son âge vénérable (fondé en 1530, par Richelieu) mais aussi parce que ses cours, donnés par des experts dans leurs domaines respectifs, sont en accès libre (gratuit et sans inscription). Depuis plusieurs années, ces cours sont également disponibles en ligne. Ce qui est très pratique si, comme moi, vous n’êtes pas enchanté à l’idée d’aller vous presser dans un auditorium, ou si vous préférez suivre les cours en horaires décalés. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240823/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:42:55 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240823/ Because of some stupid accident, I needed a new desk letter/paper organizer on my desk. Nothign fancy, just something to hold my index cards and a few fountain pens, pens and stuff. Checking on Amazon, I was surprised to see their price. I mean they’re not that expensive but it’s just some molded plastic or bent wire, right? Then, I checked for used one on Ebay and elsewhere and I was even more surprised by the asked prices plus shipping. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240807/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:41:30 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240807/ I’m not the most intensive Reddit user, but I do post my fair share of content there. Or I used to, up until a few days ago. For the most part, my participation was taking the form of comments and answers to other questions but Reddit’s recent decision to grant an exclusive deal to Google made me wonder what it meant to post on Reddit — what it meant in regard to the ownership of our content. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240806/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 19:43:10 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240806/ The Canon Typestar 220 is a 1992 ‘portable electronic typewriter’. It also is a ’thermal typewriter’, more on that in a moment, and it is a much appreciated ‘upgrade’ to the other electronic thermal typewriter I was using before that, the Canon Typestar 10-II from 1994 — which incidentally demonstrates that even back in those pre-Digital Dark Ages ’newer’ did not always mean ‘better’. It’s an even much more impressive upgrade when considering my usual drafting companions: a fountain pen, but that is a whole other story. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240804/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:43:10 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240804/ I don’t know about other countries press coverage and, to be honest, I barely follow the news about the Olympic Games but it’s really saddening to hear our journalists constantly, and I mean constantly, obsessing over the number of medals France is winning. Listening to them feels like listening to accountants talking balance sheets. They barely talk sports or the athlete’s prowess. That is unless they set a new record of some sort, winning a new medal. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240514/ Tue, 14 May 2024 14:19:24 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240514/ I’ve started uploading a daily sketch on my other blog as a way to get back into the habit of sketching, well, daily. I also post them on my mastodon that I have never really used for anything. Edit: as a teen I sketched a lot. I had no more ’talent’ at that time than I have today but back then I did not care the slightest about that. I was enjoying sketching a lot, and I had a lot of fun. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240426/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:37:33 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240426/ On Journaling? I am just curious about journaling. I have tried a few times and it never really stuck. I like the idea of reflecting in a journal but also concerned about getting attached to past thoughts or ruminating on it. What are your experiences? I have been journaling since the 80s. More or less constantly. For me, it always was one of the most helpful tool at my disposal. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240425b/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:32:55 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240425b/ This discussion on reddit about the paper agenda (see last post) really got me thinking about my ’newish’and actual reliance on Apple’s own calendar after decades of hassle-free and even pleasant use of a Filofax/paper organizers. What made this digital calendar different or practical to the point of imposing itself as the obvious and undisputed choice it has become for me? Notifications? They’re always turned off on my device. I check my digital calendar exactly like I used to check my paper one all those years ago, each morning and noon. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240425/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:25:27 +0200 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/20240425/ I recently realized I post a lot more on reddit than on this blog. I also noted that a few of those comments I post on reddit could as well be considered blog posts and be published here. So, from now on, I will also publish them on the blog. Linking to the original discussion on reddit. I’m curious to see if it helps me get a better understanding of what I’m thinking about certain questions, or if there is any trend building up. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240223-forests/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:13:55 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240223-forests/ Récemment, je lisais Gilles et Jeanne de Michel Tournier. Un livre dans lequel Tournier nous parle de la rencontre de Jeanne d’Arc avec Gilles de Rai et, bien que cela ne soit pas central dans l’intrigue (ou bien ça l’est ?), où il nous parle aussi des immenses forêts qui à l’époque couvraient une bonne partie de la France, et sans doute d’autres pays européens. En lisant ses descriptions, je me suis retrouvé tout con à me demander: est-on seulement encore capable d’imaginer ce qu’était une forêt en France au XV siècle ? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240208-new-laptop/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 09:29:23 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240208-new-laptop/ Today, I should receive my new laptop. It is a 2016 HP Elitebook PC I purchased from a French reseller specialized in refurbished computers. So, not exactly new and it is supposed to be replacing my even older 2011 ThinkPad X220. Not that I wanted to replace thx X220, far from it, if it was not for its one weakness, its screen. The X220 screen is really bad. There is no other way to put it. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240116-who-owns-a-book/ Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:08:31 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240116-who-owns-a-book/ Realizing that not only I do not truly own the ebooks I have purchased but that all those ebooks can vanish from my digital library in an instant, and there is nothing I can do to prevent it is the second reason why I decided to switch back to reading printed books. The first reason is the lack of privacy and anonymity when one is reading an ebook. I discussed it here: Am I Reading That Ebook or Am I Being Read by That Ebook? https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240112-read-or-being-read/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:19:36 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240112-read-or-being-read/ Or Why I switched back to printed books, part one. I am a reader. Always have been. If I love the printed book, I also like the convenience of its digital cousin, the ebook. So much that for the last fifteen (twenty?) years, more than half of what I have read were ebooks. Probably much more than that but you get the idea: I have no issue with reading ebooks. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240111-getting-old/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:36:07 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240111-getting-old/ This afternoon, I had one of my regular appointment with my eye doctor. You know, being over fifty one’s eyes are not what they used to be. This was not my usual doctor. Replacinh her was another woman, much younger, somewhere in her early twenties. She was nice and competent, the checkup went as I expected. But once she tried to explain to me the state of my vision she seemed very hesitant. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240106-one-lightbulb/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 11:10:55 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240106-one-lightbulb/ I turned off my desk lamp to save on electricty, while I am writing. That’s silly, I know. A lightbulb amounts to nothing. I know that too. And despite that, I did it. I moved my sad desk1 closer to that window. Before the move, it was facing a wall in the same room and needed that lamp all the time. After moving it, I sat and get out my pen and paper, I did not turn on the lamp, and started writing. https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240101-first-post/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:02:32 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/posts/2024/240101-first-post/ Version Française (English version available below) J’écris ce billet de blog en plein milieu de la journée, pour profiter à fond de la lumière du jour. Contrairement à notre électricité, elle est gratuite et elle ne pollue pas. J’écris ce billet sans connexion à Internet, sans ordinateur ou tablette ni téléphone. Avec du papier et un stylo. Au départ, j’avais pensé qu’un peu de musique me ferait du bien, mais non. https://thefoolwithapen.com/pages/about/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:11:58 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/pages/about/ Hi, I am Libb. That’s the surname I like to use online, you can call me David. I’m a 50-something 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 dude that tries to rethink his life around simpler and more sustainable values. I speak French but I try to write more in English, hopefully the content of the blog will reflect that wish. On this blog, You will never see ads. Ads are everywhere and they have ruined most of the Web. https://thefoolwithapen.com/pages/contact/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:11:58 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/pages/contact/ You can send me an email. Be warned that I tend to read and answer emails as quickly as I update this blog, which is not that quick. I have given up on most social media but you can find me on Piefed, an open and libre alternative to Reddit without ads and without tracking. Last, I have recently revived my mastodon account, an open and libre alternative to Twitter, but the best way to reach me remains good old email. https://thefoolwithapen.com/pages/content/ Mon, 01 Jan 2024 11:11:08 +0100 https://thefoolwithapen.com/pages/content/ Writing Most posts are drafted longhand. I Just prefer it that way. Writing longhand forces me to slow down and to think a little more about what I want to say and how. Alas, still not enough thinking is going on seeing how regularly I need to edit a post after I published it. It may also take a while between the moment I draft a post, the moment I type it on the computer and the moment I finally publish it.