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A year of gopher ---------------- I wrote the first entry in this phlog[1] one year ago today, during a rainy New Zealand autumn, at a time when my life was largely dominated by desperate preparations to move my entire life to Finland in a matter of weeks. I'm glad I noticed this impending anniversary before it happened, so I could use it as a chance to reflect. In the last year I wrote 108 posts, almost exactly two posts per week on average. I think I'm quite happy with that rate and don't really have any plans to change it. I have ended up pretty much writing about whatever it is that I feel like writing about at any given time. A professed goal, early on, was to use this phlog to try to sort out a swirling collection of thoughts, ideas and feelings around socio-technical trends, and while I have certainly written a lot about that, there has not been much of an attempt at any kind of summary or overall synthesis. I haven't realised a small number of clear, consistent core principles underlying everything I've said. Perhaps I should do a read through of my old posts some time, taking notes, and see if I can distill anything. It feels a little unreal that I've been here (both in gopherspace and, almost, in Finland) for a year already. For the past maybe 5 years or so I've been really aware of feeling like my perception of time is shifting, so that it seems to go faster. This is, I think, a pretty common experience (very well expressed in Pink Floyd's "Time", which I'm listening to as I write this), but I have to say, if it feels this bad in my early 30's I'm kind of terrified of how much worse it might become as I get "actually old". It's been a great pleasure to spend the last year in the company of my fellow gophernauts, even if more and more of them seem to be, sadly, moving on (pet84rik is the most recent to disappear, and I will really miss him). Whether the number of phloggers grows or shrinks, as long as gopherspace maintains its current warm and cozy feel, I'll be here. [1] gopher://circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/introduction.txt