Some Recent Thoughts
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I has been somewhat busy recently, and also not much lucky. Thus there
was little new on my Gopher.
I'm still somewhat exhausted and still a lot of work have to be done.
Gopher 2.0
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To be honest, I don't think that there is a big chance for some new
version of Gopher protocol. In my opinion the main advantage of the
gopher:// is in its simplicity. It can be accessed from old and long
abandoned computer platforms. I think that there is little chance that
someone will want to write and maintain Gopher 2.0 clients for ancient
UNIX workstations or some (even not so) ancient PDA, for example. But
some people to use these devices to read articles via Gopher. And all
these computers might be out of game just because the new protocol will
use UTF-8 or some sort of encryption.
I also think that there is little space to develop a new simple
protocol. I may worth to try to do it, though. But it cannot be "Gopher
2.0" but something else. I don't know how much users will such protocol
can share with the current Gopher users.
Phone
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I have tried several times to go to different meetings and workshops
without my phone. Surprisingly, there was no problem. The only
difference was that nobody was able to disturb me so I was able to
concentrate. And all "urgent" and "important" problems have been able
to be postponed to time when I was back in my office.
Blackbird
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No progress so far. I even e-mailed a polite question to the
[email protected] (I just politely asked if the shipping can be
expected in June) but no reaction. Maybe all Raptor staff is busy in
packaging and sending of these Blackbirds? It seems to be a bit strange
because my order is just 30 numbers after the Cameron's one and he was
already able to write a review of his delivered system. I hope that the
only issue is that Raptor people will prepare the international orders
after the domestic ones. But still, no reaction to an e-mail is
strange...
Palm/PDA
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I still use my Palm on daily basic. Still use the Palm III line as I'm
not compatible with newer ones. But this week I actually have no time
event to read news in Plucker.
Written on the Gemini PDA during lunch break...
