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Personal: Timelines. Some meandering thoughts.
Tue, 17 Jan 2006

(Aside.. an excellent read dismembering 'Web 2.0'. Also, why oh why did I ever separate 'arts' and 'entertainment' back on day-zero of creating this blog? Why have I not merged them yet? How does one differentiate between 'entertainment' and 'technology' when you're involved in both?)

One of these days I'm going to create a private-thoughts directory somewhere; occasionally I have a thought that might be amusing to note down should I want to read it 20 years from now but that isn't fit for the public -- internal dialog. Creating a private blog directory seems silly, since it just exposes such dialog to intrusions and security breaches. But who keeps a diary anymore? Where does one record internal dialog these days? Or is this why 90% of blogs stink? With so much personal information, where do we keep it all? How do we back it all up? (All these folks with digital cameras will have Bad Days when their hard drives die!) I cannot imagine how the computer newbies survive the onslaught of virii.. better to be computer illiterate than a newbie sometimes :)

This morning I awoke early to do some minor off-peak server maintenance; such times are always odd as ones brain is not prepared for such heavy lifting as 'stairing straight ahead' before the crack-of-noon; the expectations of doing such work make sleep fitfull so you don't get much of it - and the mind wanders. When I become consious, there is often a thought that pops to mind, and todays was a throwback to a Patrick Stewart line from one of the Star Trek films - that for now there is more time ahead than behind. (In the film, it was the reverse situation, rather sad.) For me, perhaps the waking thought was about the cusp - the last mile to the turning point. I've (hopefully) got a few years until the midpoint - but not many as I should like of course - and that waking thought does add a certain sepia to the days colour.)

Anyway, the early morning AM's prompted me to lament the quick passage of time and wonder about the timelines; it always amazes me to think that the last 5-6 years have slid by so fast, with various injuries and deaths in the family (not to mention working myself near to exhaustion a few times with Codejedi and day-work) to spur things by. But of course, they have been the best of times.. the times I've known my wife, that have flown by fastest.. more than a third of my life.

I actually just wrote out a vague timeline of 'significant events' from when I was born to now; there are years where the activities were much more dense than others, but it would seem that things are least dense the last couple of years -- while life is as busy as ever - likely the busiest, the events are less significant. My wife would say that this is the time where we're waiting for children to come, but on the other hand .. while waiting, perhaps things are a little stagnant?

Hmm, perhaps it is time to stir things up a little.

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