20120918-232748.jpgVi hyr ett litet hus i närheten av Kruttornet. Jag och Kima leker rövare under dagarna. Det blir lite uppdrag, lite Myllan, nån fika hos någon nära, och mängder av underbara lekar och äventyr – som att ta några små stapplande steg utan att hålla någon i handen. Bara det!

Under kvällarna ägnar jag mig åt vuxensaker, som att jaga möjligheter att få flyga, eller att träna Shorinji Kempo. Jag är numera även engagerad i Gotlands Musikalkompani, vilket är jättekul.
Jag och Amanda jobbar vidare med en bok som summerar vår liftarresa. Det är lärorikt och utmanande, läser allt skrivet med ett extra inre öga och hjärta.

Memrise.com is one of the best web experiences I’ve ever had.
It’s a learning community where you can learn words and things from a vast spectrum of topics.

The idea is that when you meet a new word, a small seed is planted in your green house. As you spend more time with it, the seed sprout and grows (and is now housing in your short-time memory).

Memrise is full of clever things, and when you’re (according to their science) about to forget the memories, they send you a nice email with a direct link to the specific words or things, that you are about to forget.
Great service, love it!

I’ve got a Excitio B3 (personal server) that I use for different computer tasks.
It serves my ownCloud, an instance of Ampache, a Tor bridge, a video/music/photos streamer, a anonymous dropbox (FTP) and thinkUp – a web app that backs up your social media interactions. I also use it as my router, and as a backup for my photo masters. So far, it’s been a very pleasant experience. I am looking to use it even more! I would like to be able to serve my friends with small and useful web apps.

With great power, comes great responsibility
Because of this, I won’t try to help with their e-mail, or any other service that requires uptime. After all, the server is run from my living room 🙂 and I’m always trying out new stuff on it. So the services need to be quick and dirty, the jack and use kind of apps.

Why I’m doing this
I have this vision/ideal of direct communication – without middle hands.
That means no government, no corporations in between.
And after all: I have both the CPU and bandwidth to do this.
Besides the B3, I also have an account with WebFaction that supports both node.js and a few other cool technologies. Might just go ahead and try

Today:

Tommorrow:

Things that can improve the experience
It would be awesome if we (who have servers) could help each other with redundancy, when my service goes offline, then yours could take over.

During my search I found a great list of apps that you can try on your server: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud

What apps would you serve to your friends?