Welcome to my small world!

This is my Ground Zero. After Google announced to kill Google Plus (or G+), which was my social universe, my creative spot to present my photo collections, my blogging home and my place to discuss and learn with and from other people, I had to rethink my online strategy. Social networks are not critical as long as you are not a content creator. If you are only consuming stuff from others, there is no problem if the platform shuts down as you can just move on to the next big thing. But for me, it is different…

“No centralized (social) regime will deny me access to my own content in the future. This is my own place, my own pocket universe.”

Recent Posts

The Photographs You Spare Us

Keeping every photograph is easy. Choosing which ones deserve to stay takes judgement and a willingness to let go. Delete the failures, question the mediocre, and stop preserving twenty versions of the same moment. Your best pictures deserve room to breathe, and your friends deserve better than an endless scroll through everything you could not bear to delete.

Tesla: The Safest Car in the World?

The safest car in the world? Crash tests answer only part of that question. While reviewers admire Tesla’s latest dashboard tricks, I keep noticing the security fixes in its release notes. As AI gives attackers better tools, the less entertaining question becomes harder to ignore: how well is your connected car being maintained after you buy it?

How Much Dinner, How Much Theatre?

Two evenings of exquisite food in Franschhoek taught me that pleasure does not necessarily increase with the number of courses. Between premium wine pairings, Wagyu supplements and a diminishing appetite, I began to suspect that the most elusive luxury in fine dining might be knowing when to stop serving it.