Had an incredible time with the wonderful cast of #shadowhunters & the lovely @jalecsquad at #itacon 3â¤ï¸ Last con for this year – but hopefully until next year! 😎
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Had an incredible time with the wonderful cast of #shadowhunters & the lovely @jalecsquad at #itacon 3â¤ï¸ Last con for this year – but hopefully until next year! 😎
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Had an incredible time with the wonderful cast of #shadowhunters & the lovely @jalecsquad at #itacon 3â¤ï¸ Last con for this year – but hopefully until next year! 😎
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Photo taken at: Milan, Italy
Lots of fun with @jalecsquad & Sherdario at #itacon 3!
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Over the course of the past couple of months I’ve become more aware of the privacy issues of the modern internet. I’m not paranoid, but I’m also not a fan of big corporations tracking me and trying to sell me stuff.
Back in the day, I left Hotmail and signed up for Gmail, when it had a 1 GB storage limit that far exceeded most other services as well as probably the best spam filter around. I liked the company with its “Don’t be evil” motto – and somehow, over the years, I came to rely on it for a big part of my online life, especially after switching from the original iPhone to Android (because I’d gotten tired of having to jailbreak after every update just to get functioning video recording and of having only 4GB of storage).
However, recently I started to feel that it was more than a little creepy, how much Google knew about me – plus I got sick and tired of having ads in my email. So I made some changes, and now I can say that the only Google service I still use regularly is Youtube (mostly because that’s where the ASMR videos live *g*) and the Android app store on my phone.
This might not interest anyone, but here’s what I’ve done so far:
Additionally I’m checking out Mastodon, a federated Twitter alternative. You can find me on the mastodon.cloud instance.
Seems I’m only using this blog to post my annual playlist these days – and this year I almost forgot! 🙂
Download (.zip, 125mb) | Youtube playlist
Note: The Spotify playlist is missing the Olly Murs cover of “Parachute”.
Another year, another mix… just to prove that I’m not dead. 🙂
Listen: Download .zip (184mb, mp3 + cover art) or Spotify playlist
01. Celia Pavey – Feel Good Inc.
02. The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build a Home
03. Big Rude Jake – Queer for Cat
04. Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
05. Milky Chance – Peripeteia
06. Phildel – Storm Song
07. Tamer – Beautiful Crime
08. Regina Spektor – Small Bill$
09. Just A Band – Huff + Puff
10. Imagine Dragons – Believer
11. Kongos – Come With Me Now
12. Major Lazer & DJ Snake – Lean On (feat. MØ)
13. Max Raabe & Palast Orchester – We Will Rock You
14. Rag’n’Bone Man – Human
15. Pieces of Juno – Siver & Gold
16. Jordan Fisher – You’re Welcome (feat. Lin-Manuel Miranda)
17. Milck – Devil Devil
18. Rousseau – Sugar Plum
19. Rundfunk-Tanzorchester Ehrenfeld – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
20. Ruelle – The Other Side
21. Vance Joy – Like Gold
22. Shannon Saunders – Atlas
23. Woodkid – Run Boy Run
24. Sufjan Stevens – Visions of Gideon
25. Fall Out Boy – Hold Me Tight Or Don’t
Wow, another year past… and it was a pretty good one (on a personal, definitely not a political level – and I’m still so sad about Carrie Fisher and the other great people we lost this year), ending with the absolute highlight of 4 weeks in New Zealand. So here’s my annual mix, following the same rules as always:
1. Only songs I added to iTunes in 2016 (i.e. new to me, not new per se)
2. Only 1 song per artist
3. Not more than 25 songs
@Regrann from @flyingdaleksohnoes – @evamaria_ch : Holland 2015!!!! Let’s decide today where we want to go this year. #latergram #throwbackthursday #zeeland – Hard decision, but yay for Texel in any case! #friends #vacation
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Photo taken at: Zeeland, Gelderland, Netherlands
Google Analytics course in Zurich – a nice change from being stuck at the office… #work #google #zurich
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Bummelsuntig…. (Post-Fasnacht marching by uncostumed carnival music groups.) #fasnacht #basel #switzerland
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Photo taken at: Steinen Basel