We live in the rural area and near our house many years ago eucalyptus trees were planted. This ended up been a mistake and last week we had to ask someone to come around and cut those trees. The trees were gigantic at least 20 meters tall. There is something about a tree so tall like that when they coming down, it shakes you inside. The tree is there one day and the other day is gone.

Ever since I learned about these communities organized services and tools hosting I have been considering to start one but also thinking that the internet would be a very different place if that was the norm. These are communities like sdf.org, that is completing 35 years this year, snopyta.org, disroot.org, the tilde ones and many others. They are all privacy focused, some offer email, others offer blog hosting, chat and conference servers and some offer almost everything one would need to not only have an online presence but also to work and produce online.

My father in law makes some beautiful digital paintings, and I have been talking to Gabi about how we could help him sell his paintings. The technical part of creating a website to sell his art wouldn’t be difficult, it may take some time since I haven’t done anything like that before. The hard bit in my mind is how to promote it. Our first thought was Instagram, and we believe as Instagram users ourselves we know how this could possibly be done.

I have been hearing for a while about this VPS hosting service called Uberspace.de and I finally decided to signed up. The service is really interesting for various reason. First there are three pricing tiers and you selected the price, starting from 5 euros per month, if you can pay more they have the 10 euros and 15 euros per month tier. I’ve decided yet what I will pay but since this is just so I can test a few things I might pay the 5 euros per month, I won’t be a heavy user.

Today I had to write a very small (three lines) script in PHP for something I need tested at work. And that brought back some memories from a project that I had to do for the school in Australia, when I was studying there. For that school project I had to build an entire website, and we had to show our skill writing a CRUD application that used a database. If those who don’t know, CRUD stands for create, retrieve, update and delete, basically all the operations one would need to create a website that keep data in a database.

Today I have turned 46 years old. Last time that I did a post about my birthday it was 10 years ago. Since today was a working today my birthday celebration was postponed to Saturday. On this birthday I feel blessed that I have Gabi with me and that we are here in Brazil living our lives and finding our path, that we are both working and healthy. I am also happy that we are close to my mom and Gabi’s parents and we are able to help them when they need us.