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Monthly Archives: December 2025

12/2025 Summary

Posted on December 28, 2025 by Tomas

December is almost over, and given that the last three days are expected to be calmer workdays, I decided to pass my judgment on the month already (though I’ll judge the year as a whole next week).

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Book review: Sylvanas

Posted on December 21, 2025 by Tomas

Sylvanas Windrunner has been a major character of the Warcraft universe for a long time, and one of the most controversial ones. This book promised deeper insight into her, though it wasn’t exactly what I expected.

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Writing: unexpected blind spots

Posted on December 14, 2025 by Tomas

Writers tend to have quite an active imagination and can come up with scenarios some people wouldn’t even imagine. But we can also have unexpected blind spots in our knowledge about… quite mundane or common things.

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November 2025 hiking

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Tomas

November turned out to be a weaker month for hiking, for reasons I mentioned in the monthly summary, and the weather wasn’t the best on both hikes, but I tried to bring back some pictures worth sharing.

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Posted in Hiking, Photography | Tagged Hiking, mountains, nature, photo | 2 Comments

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