Life is what happens when you're making other plans
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Mon 18th Jan 2021 /cpj
Well the last year really was a dumpster fire, wasn't it?
With the vaccine on the way (delayed though it is in Canada), hope lies on
the horizon, provided we can get enough people to take it. I would really
like to get back to a semblance of the things I enjoyed -- the things that
brought me pleasure, and enjoy them with friends and family. The last year
has been productive, however, in that I was able to provide service and
leadership, both to the vulnerable and to those who looked to me for
direction.
I started circling back to the small internet at the tail end of 2020, as I
realized that my work-life balance was becoming work-life blending. I had
been spending my downtime throughout the year at the commandline, mostly
puttering with projects that I had been taken away from by things outside.
Things *inside*, by necessity, were needed in a world where the outside was
unknown.
Not surprising, for me anyway, was my interest in horological tools.
Professionally, I spend a lot of time thinking about time -- its passage --
and the effect of that passage on people, structures, networks, and the
progress of the world in general.
It was nice to see that Gemini has taken off -- both in terms of the protocol
itself, the tools (client and server) that have emerged (in all flavours --
commandline, GUI, X, etc.), and in terms of the ease by which content
creation is engendered. In the manner of a micro-nix Jedi, I have constructed
my own site -- you can find both the gopher and Gemini versions at
gopher://kaun.ca and gemini://kaun.ca, respectfully. The gopher site remains
semi-built from its inception in 2018, though I know now (much more clearly)
what I want to put there. I moved house in late 2019, and this project fell
by the wayside, as I dealt with more pressing matters. But with COVID, all we
have is time, and nothing seems pressing. It's time for matters.
Be well.
