Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Motorcycling in Central Oregon

    I've been having quite a bit of trouble with the news, both in reading it and staying away from it. So I decided to call it a day and head out on a dirt motorcycle loop around the forest.

    I live in Bend, and there are a couple well-known dirt routes that pass nearby. An older one is the Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route #3, and a newer one is the Oregon Backcountry Discovery Route. I know that sounds very similar, but the former was created ages ago by folks in the Oregon Off Highway Vehicle Association (OOHVA), and the latter was created more recently by the Ride BDR group.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Rip. Mix. Burn.

    For someone who makes his living in tech, I am not very enamoured of gadgets. Very much unlike my wife, who has a great liking for same, particularly in the realms of electronic/media and cookery. Of course, she acquires far fewer of the former now that most of the things she used to buy have been consolidated into that ultimate gadget, the smartphone. But the relics of a bygone age of ipods, digital voice recorders, digital cameras, answering machines, travel alarm clocks, and flip phones are still to be found in various junk drawers around the house.

    In contrast, I resisted getting a cell phone for quite a while and then, when smartphones came along I managed to resist that compulsion for a long time too (although to be fair, I seem to recall owning at one point a smartphone-like device that only worked over wireless.) Eventually though my employer decided I was worthy of a work-supplied iPhone, and it's hard to say no to something like that. Following which, of course, I became hooked on the convenience just like everyone else, and moved on to a personal iPhone after my employer decided to save money by not issuing smartphones to middle managers like me anymore.

  • Protocol Styles and the Flag of Sark

    If you build Alhena from source, you can now create a page style by protocol (gemini, spartan, nex, http, https and file). Thanks @me for the great idea!

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Last-minute entry for ROOPHLOCH 2025

      This post has taken a bit longer than I had planned. Strangely it has had to be composed in three parts, in three separate countries, all outdoors.

      Regular readers of my gemlog will be only too aware that most of the content is *not* about Gemini, but about UK housing policy. I really prefer not to do "meta" posts, because I consider Gemini just a regular part of the internet nowadays.

      This post isn't particularly interesting: tl;dr is that for various boring reasons I don't have mobile data or WiFi on my laptop, which you might think makes participating in ROOPHLOCH *harder* but in fact it was the opposite.