ast month I began (or resumed rather) regularly blogging in this site. I had done a lot of that 20+ years ago, before Techrights existed.

As a result, many people visit this site again.

This site is personal however. It’s a personal site and I don’t want to make myself the story.

Sister sites do a better job covering various issues, but keeping the blog in this site active means I can offload more personal anecdotes, improving s/n ratio in those other sites.

Everyone has something one can contribute to society

think it’s fair to say that this year’s summer vacation is still the best I’ve had since I was a teenager. Vacations are always fun, but this year I feel very productive and this coming Monday we plan to do a long journey for Rianne’s birthday, then we’ll enjoy another week of this 3-week vacation.

We are not keeping idle, as being too idle leads to boredom and boredom can lead to misery. Sitting in front of the TV all day long, for instance, was never associated with contentment. Many old (elderly) people do this as they have limitations on their movement and motoric activity, plus they’re retired.

Contrary to what IBM and GAFAM want us to think (because they can barely pay salaries anymore), retirement at 40 isn’t feasible.

have just taken a look at 12-month trends in Clownflare. It’s not hard to see how in the past year GNU/Linux steadily gained. Another year or two like this and the international average might show 10% or more for GNU/Linux.

In statCounter it already says 9% or more.

think it is fair to say that climate change is accepted by the vast majority, even some former sceptics, who cannot recall summers this dry and shortages (of water, food etc.) so severe.

It’s not because of “Iran” or “fertilisers”, it is due to human activity, the human population doubling in half a century, as well as pollution, industrialisation, overconsumption and so on.

Climate change and global warming are more urgent issues than ever before.

“Days continue to lengthen from equinox to solstice and summer days progressively shorten after the solstice, so meteorological summer encompasses the build-up to the longest day and a diminishing thereafter, with summer having many more hours of daylight than spring.”

ianne’s birthday is 4 days away (ahead) and we plan to go travel to be merry. A week later it’s Bank Holiday, then it’s end of summer and end of our holiday based on the “meteorological summer” definition.

We won’t let inappropriate communications interfere with our holidays, we’re instead getting on with our lives while keeping productive.

T is “proper rainy” today (steady rainfall, not sporadic drizzles) and it feels good, for a change. We need lots and lots of rain. In fact, today we stay home, which means more output like fun (not strictly leisurely) blogging.

This past Sunday I cleaned the pavements here and it felt like I was doing a good job while listening to Discman. I didn’t know the cost of that task though; there was a lot of dust and even though I wore a musk a lot of the dust was still being inhaled and the dust gave me a runny nose for 3 days. That finally got resolved (fully) some time yesterday. So I will no longer work on the floor (I planned to do another round this coming weekend), I will do that again another season, maybe only on a wet/flooded floor where dust remains stuck to the ground. Oddly enough I did not have this sort of problem in past years. I am not sure why.

Housework and housekeeping aren’t worth compromising one’s health.

UST 10 days from now it’ll be the last day of August. It has been a very hot summer.

It’s the warmest season and it won’t be over next month, as some expect further dry spells.

By some standards, summer ends in 1.5 weeks from now:

We are now into the first week of meteorological summer, which began on June 1 and will last until August 31, with autumn beginning on September 1.

Meteorologists divide the seasons up according to weather rhythms and the Gregorian calendar, states the Royal Meteorologists Society (RMETS).

But there is also the astronomical calendar, which marks out summer as being from June 21 until September 21, with autumn beginning the next day and lasting until December 21.