Stories

When I stay in Las Vegas, I usually book the same hotel. I like this hotel. It’s just off the strip and has no casino. It’s more quiet and I like it that way. The elevator button panel though drives me nuts though. It takes too many brain cycles to select the right button. Here’s […]

Yesterday, I was working from home. My eye fell on my live ISS camera feed and I saw this – apologies for the bad photo quality, I only had my iPad Mini on hand: The Japanese supply ship Kounotori has arrived with fresh supplies for ISS. It launched last Sunday and it took 4.5 days […]

Last week a new album of Prince called “Piano & A Microphone 1983” was posthumously released. It was a recently discovered tape made in his home studio. It’s pure Prince without backing or editing. It’s really great. When I got the news that Prince passed away, I realized that I hadn’t listened to any of […]

On April 30th, 2014 the HD Earth Viewing System was installed on the ISS. It consists of four cameras pointed at the earth. The goal of the experiment is to test the longevity of off-the-shelf commercial video cameras in space. The views are absolutely breathtaking. When I came across it back, I was absolutely mesmerized […]

My favorite cherished Sunday morning ritual is reading PostSecret with a coffee. Wherever I am, it’s a small moment of peace and contemplation. I can hide from “the world” for a few minutes. What I like about PostSecret, is that it puts me in touch with my own feelings. They’re little jolts of empathy and […]

After a journey of a few years to Medium and then Squarespace, my blog is back on a self-hosted Wordpress site. I've been blogging for a decade and hosting my own website for two. Here's the story.

There are quite a few blogs I like to follow and I visited them regularly to see if there was an update. But since the update intervals for each of these were very different, regularly visiting wasn’t really working for me. There must be a better solution to this.