26 December 2024
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Well, Christmas is over now and everything is returning a bit to a
more "normal" mode - at least for a few days until the new year and
its celebrations are hitting. Junior really enjoyed his first "real"
Christmas very much, last year he was too young to really "get it",
but this year... well, it was good.

It looks like this was a good year for the gopher sphere if you look
at the stats of the "Observable Gopherspace Universe Project"... who
would think that this part of the net would actually see more or less
persistent growth in todays world? May this be a sign that more people
are become dissatisfied with the direction information technology is
moving? Or am i reading too much into it?

Regarding my "Living in the shell" post i now have found a reason to
sometimes start up X again: I managed to get Maiko, the Interlisp VM,
to compile on the DevTerm and i am now playing around on it from time
to time and it really runs smooth on the - by todays standards - rather
slow hardware of the DevTerm. I am really curious if Interlisp kicks
off again and will see more usage besides a bit off retro computing or
as a hobbyist system (not that this would be a bad thing), but it would
be interesting to see a new ecosystem grow around it.

Its another week until daycare for junior is starting again... and we
are all looking forward to it.  Junior really needs the bulk of other
children, the routine and the action he gets there. We try to give him
enough possibilities to "blow of steam", but it is simply not the same.