2002-10-25»
and we’re back…»“We”, in this case, meaning both Blogger and me. I’m sitting in the new home – because home is where the homepage is – using the Net for the first time, thanks to Gilbert‘s late-night net-fu. I ended up doing NTK in a local cafe at six this morning, stopping occasionally to filter the latest blogger news. The nomadic net life is giving me flashbacks of being hunched over underpowered Macs in cold Edinburgh flats, handcoding bits of the Guardian’s first Website. Weird, and ancient.
With the new house, we’ve had a PC cabinet reshuffle. Gilbert’s got a brand new thang, so I got his old 1Ghz machine, which I’ve been regutting to form my new Debian desktop. Rather than just copy over my old machine’s hard drive, I started with a fresh install, and have been adding the useful bits of code from old backups as I go. Like anyone else, I’ve collected a lot of cruft over the years, and this seems to be a good way of paring it down to the essentials.
One can go a bit too far.This is my desktop right now, as set up by default on a minimal Debian install. A bit too barebones. It’d be interesting (well, interesting for me anyway) to compare what it looks like in say a months’ time, when the cruft is drifting back.
