The Newsletter Leaf Journal XVI 〜 No Typos in the Title This Time

N.A. Ferrell -

I sent the fifteenth edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal with a typo in the title.  While "Bess" is a name, I meant to say "Bees."  I'm no stranger to typos. 

Since I switched from Windows to Linux in August, I have had to learn how to do some things in the Linux terminal.  Certain actions require root privileges - which means I have to type "sudo" followed by whatever the command is, and then my user password.  About 1/4 times I try to type "sudo," I type "sudp" instead.  This morning, I tried to start my VPN.  The command to automatically connect to the fastest VPN server is sudo protonvpn c -f.  I inadvertently tried something new this morning:  sudo protonvon c -f.  Apparently I can hit "o" instead of "p" just as easily as I hit "p" instead of "o."  Terrible stuff.

But I digress.  I published content on every day but one this past week, so let us review the week that was and look forward to the week ahead.

Content from the Week that Was

This morning, I published our content recommendations from around the web.  I led the recommendations up with an update to my Great Suspender Chromium extension review from August.  The extension underwent a change in ownership, and it now tracks browsing history by default.  I posted the assessment of the extension and referred readers who might be curious or concerned.

I published the fourth entry in my January 1897 bird series yesterday - covering the Golden Pheasant.  While the Golden Pheasant article in the magazine was a bit shorter than the previous bird articles, the Golden Pheasant is no less impressive than the early birds.

On Tuesday, I published a bonus anime series recommendation as an addendum to my anime recommendations of the decade article from December.  The post looks at the curious case of Usagi Drop, a  recommendable anime, but one with some baggage from the underlying manga (comic) series.  The post also includes an additional anime recommendation with no such baggage - Sweetness and Lighting.

On Wednesday and Thursday, I published two articles about bird photos that I took.  The first covered a pretty brown pigeon in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.  The second covered a falcon on the Queensboro Bridge between Manhattan and Queens.  In the falcon post, I reveal that I thought the noble bird was a hawk until I sat down to work on the short article.

Finally, returned to Pixelfed on Monday to introduce the concept of Pixelfed Atom feeds.  The post explains how you can follow The New Leaf Journal on Pixelfed without making a Pixelfed account.  If you do not know what Pixelfed is, I reviewed it last November.

Looking Forward to the Week Ahead

I still have six bird articles to publish on birds from the January 1897 issued of Birds: A Monthly Serial, in addition to a bonus article on two bird poems in the magazine.  Unsurprisingly, the project will trickle into February, although you can expect multiple articles for the series this week.  If I have time this week, I will publish a book review that I had planned to post last week.

Upcoming Project

I recently purchased a PocketBook Color e-reader.  PocketBook, based in Switzerland, is the world's third-largest producer of e-readers after Amazon and Rakuten.  PocketBook's e-readers only recently became available in the United States on Amazon and Newegg.  Its Euro-centricity is evinced by the fact that all the book prices in the PocketBook store are displayed in Euros.  I have not had time to do too much with it yet, but I will review the e-reader here at The New Leaf Journal in February or March.  I can say that the e-ink screen is quite impressive.

Thank You For Subscribing

Thank you, as always, for following The New Leaf Journal and subscribing to The Newsletter Leaf Journal.  Next Sunday, I will publish our month-in-review post along with our content recommendations, so you can expect a shorter newsletter since much of the content I would cover in the newsletter will be addressed in the month-in-review.