Sumana

out if touch

2023-10-29T07:53:03Z

Haven't been keeping up on my Dreamwidth or Fediverse/Mastodon feeds since early October. Hope folks will email or comment here if they social media posted something they really would prefer that I know.

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Splashing around in my archives

2023-06-29T01:20:03Z

On my main blog (as here), I tag blog posts rather erratically, and keep meaning to go back and systematically taxonomize my thousands of posts. One thing that my new blogging platform includes is another way to highlight particular posts for attention: individual "collections" of posts listed on the "Collections" page, which is prominently linked on the top navbar of the site.

Just now I went through about nine years' worth of archives to add posts to a few collections:

Sometimes-silly ideas: I often dream up business or project ideas. Often they’re silly. Often I have no intention of executing on these ideas. Feel free to implement them. Caution: several are probably pretty bad!
Fundamental ways I think about things: These posts illustrate some of the underlying beliefs, habits, and approaches that undergird how I reason and act.
Detailed instructions: Systematic how-to explanations on a variety of topics.

Also, there's a DW feed for my blog at sumana_feed. I recently found out it had broken last year, argh, and have now remedied that, so please do subscribe if you'd like.

I'm glad I did this tonight especially because I ran across an old post in which I share a memory that means a lot to me:

Once, Leonard and I had to have a difficult conversation. As I gulped breath and tried to get up the gumption to go into the living room and talk with him about this thing, I did a bit of math. There are maybe 350 million people in the US, which means tens of millions of couples - maybe even a hundred million couples, just in my country. Some tiny fraction of those couples had the same problem, so, maybe twenty thousand? And it might take years for the couples to talk about it, and there are three hundred and sixty-five days in a year, but even so, I thought, there must be at least a few other couples having this same hard talk tonight, maybe five. I imagined them as points of light, with bright lines crisscrossing the continent to connect us.

Just the hypothetical existence of this community calmed me. We are not alone, we can't be. We talked and came out the other side together.

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limited availability for a few months

2021-07-13T16:30:26Z

FYI: I have some obligations, starting later this week and going through mid-September, that will take me offline a lot and otherwise occupy me; I will have low and intermittent availability.

I will probably be on social media (including Dreamwidth) very seldom, and will reply somewhat tardily to email. I'll know more about my schedule by around July 24th or so.

If you are currently waiting for me to answer you on something time-sensitive, please remind me if there is so I can try to get to it in the next couple days!

And if you really want me to know something that you post, please email/message me with a link, because I may not be able to keep up with social media, including Dreamwidth.

Thanks.

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Mirroring, & microblogging

2009-10-04T12:06:34Z

Would it be useful to anyone to have a Dreamwidth mirror of my real blog? There's already a LiveJournal feed you could subscribe to if you wanted. I see yatima and marnanel cross-post from their other blogs to Dreamwidth accounts; do you & your readers find that useful?

By the way, I'm 'denting (microblogging using identi.ca) and syndicating that to Twitter, in case you follow those things.

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Blogquake

2009-08-30T00:48:23Z

Now that I have spotty access to my Cogito, Ergo Sumana files where they used to be hosted (at the Open Computer Facility at UC Berkeley), Leonard kindly copied them to a directory on his server and made NewsBruiser magic happen. Fairly soon brainwane.net should redirect to the new space, but until then, you can hit

http://harihareswara.net/ces.shtml

for the new canonical location of my weblog. That's where I'll be updating from now on, except for "over there!" update now and again in the copy I'll keep archived in my OCF web space.

At some point I should do what yatima does and mirror my content from Cogito, Ergo Sumana to Dreamwidth.

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brainwane @ 2009-08-12T17:15:00

2009-08-12T21:19:58Z

I got something like a decade of free web and email service out of the Open Computing Facility at UC Berkeley. But budget cuts and unexpected downtime happeneth to us all. Once OCF comes back up, I may move some archives over and start posting here instead.

In the meantime, I'm one of several geek women posting at the new Geek Feminism blog.

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Obligatory not-a-real-journal post

2009-06-15T05:25:35Z

Hi, this is Sumana Harihareswara. I've created an account here in hopes of seeing awesome secret friends-only posts by DWers, but my real blog is over at LJ userfeed sumanah or brainwane.net/ces.shtml.

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