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2022-05-10

I finished writing the thing to generate Gopher and Gemini and Finger etc. from one input.

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I also ported most of my updates from over the pandemic to it. I had toyed with bringing in older ~town and insom.me.uk updates in here, but they were really geared for the web -- I have a habit of including inline hyperlinks that I don't follow when I'm writing for the small web. Translating from one to the other without losing all meaning is hard, so I didn't try in the end.

So far, I am happy with this. I'm not sure what to do with insom.me.uk though -- either archive it (again) or just leave it alone or what. It's not really a blog; this here is more of a journal, so really it's probably just a set of webpages about some topics, which doesn't need to be organized by date.

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I went to the local record store after putting off a trip for way too long. Picked up a dozen or so more CDs, which I am now ripping with Exact Audio Copy.

It's probably ten years since I ripped a CD (with iTunes) and probably 20 years since I ripped it using some old-school 90's-esque ripping software. The kind of thing with 10,000 options but you need to use an external MP3 encoder because "patents" (even though those have expired at some point over the last decade).

I also picked up Pod (by Breeders) on vinyl. I could have gone with Last Splash, which is the album I had framed over my desk at iWeb, but Last Splash is somehow more polished and less immediately likeable. Pod is weirdly raw and I still enjoy listening to it even though I've been coming back to it for more than two decades (over half my life etc.)

There's a discussion on the Orange Site about the iPod finally being discontinued by Apple and there's a solid segment of people who realise that having everything ever available to stream at all times has hurt their connection to music. Maybe after the resurgence of vinyl and CDs (and tape) we'll settle on just ... buying MP3s again instead of renting music.

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Boy there is a lot of dwelling on the passage of time in my recent updates. I know I joke about midlife crisis but it's in a ha-ha only-serious way.