brianvds

Nowadays I seldom drink the stuff, so hopefully I'll survive a while longer. :-)

Great stuff!

Thanks. :-)

Not to worry, I have taken a look at your blog and I can see you post real content. Which is why I promptly followed you too. :-) I was just whining in a general sort of way. All those people going crazy

Thing is, the web has up to now been a quite free market sort of space. In other words, if one company stops a service that there is actually a demand for, another quickly starts to provide it, or users

I think part of the problem with steemit is precisely the steem currency thing, because it leads to people getting greedy. And thus, instead of content creators, we have huge numbers of people whoring

This is a cool project. I will most assuredly contribute the one and other.

I suspect this obsession with making money is partly the reason why the average quality of posts here is so low. When I initially started out here, I thought Steemit would be a bit like Medium, with a

No matter how much I liked a post, if the poster asks for an upvote he can be sure he won't get one from me. In a general sort of way, the quality of the vast bulk of what gets posted here on Steemit is

This is rather nice. With hibiscus flowers, one usually sees them in full color (few can resist all those colors!), so this is a bit out of the ordinary.

Nice photo! :-)

I can't remotely afford a smart phone. Don't really want one either, if truth be told...

We have a substantial population of people of Indian descent here in South Africa where I live. We know it is Diwali when there are free fireworks shows all over the place. :-)

I don't see the broken arrow button you refer to. No wonder I'm having trouble resteeming anything! :-) Edit: Wait, now I see. It is only on posts, not comments, which makes sense. Okay, let me go see

I have been here for weeks, and I have yet to work out what terms like 'curating' and 'resteeming' even mean, let alone how to do it...

Around here in South Africa where I live, we don't really have much in the way of autumn or winter. We get a bit of yellow leaves, and in winter a bit of frost some evenings, and that's it. Lots of Europeans

Sharing/resteeming is apparently one way to increase one's own reach around here, and I like to do it anyway on all social media, with posts worth sharing. Incidentally, I checked out your blog; love your

Wildfires are not just fed by winds, but also by fuel. I must assume lots of fuel have built up over some years without any fires.

Nice photo. I like the haze in the distance. This is a view that has also been the subject of lots of paintings, if I'm not mistaken.

I wanted to but can]t work out how. And I still can]t work out whether sharing and resteeming means the same thing.