The hard drive (HDD) in my desktop is dying by inches. We've had good times together. But like all good things, they must come to an end. There's no telling how much longer the smaller drive will last. It's probably over a decade old at this point. The large drive has housed Windows 10, while the smaller drive is for my Linux testing...

A programmer programmed in PHP. The code she wrote was legacy code as soon as her commits entered the git repo, and they provided gainful employment for many other programmers for years to come. Another programmer programmed in Ruby. His code was also legacy code from its inception, yet his code prompted several developers to pivot to management careers and a complete application rewrite in Go. Upon hearing of this, a wise programmer remarked: How much better it is to work with Java written in PHP than Java written in Ruby!

I have an email problem. I have way, way too many accounts. I should pare then down, but until then, I use a desktop email client to keep track of all of them. For that, I use Mozilla's Thunderbird. It's open source, connects with my Microsoft Exchange accounts, and is available cross platform. I can use it in Linux and in Windows (aside form an unfortunate theming issue with the Greybird theme in Linux) it does what I need. My theme issue was in finding the button to turn off automatically marking emails as read. I prefer to leave some things unread, so they're easier to find later...

I miss playing West End Game's classic d6 Star Wars. Back when there was an expanded universe but fewer movies, we were left wondering what the Clone Wars actually were, before Knights of the Old Republic, hell, before Shadows of the Empire, we had a lot more empty space to fill. I only got to play a few sessions here and there, but I enjoyed making characters and rolling fistfuls of dice. I'd like to play that again, or possibly run a campaign myself. It would be good for doing something like Firefly. I think what I miss most is the feeling of the early sessions. I only played a session or two before I agreed to run my own game...

Since I first found the World Wide Web (some thirty odd years ago) I always believed its potential for the betterment of humanity. It has the ability to bring people together, offer a soapbox to express and debate ideas, to teach and provide information and to simply learn about the world around us (that some of us are unable to see) or simply to help one another. When I read this morning on the BBC News site that the man who did a great deal to create the Web was worried that the Web was now on the decline, almost to the extent of becoming dysfunctional (there is a brief Video to go along with the article). The rampant collection of personal data and more expressly poor collection and storage methods and blatant misuse of such data (by companies and unscrupulous app developers) are prime reasons for his worries. But also he mentions the widespread use of "Clickjacking" by companies/sites and also the civility of users. To attempt to reverse this direction he has created A Contract For the Web which covers the (ideal) use of the Web by Governments, companies and we Users. This is something for which, I feel, the Vivaldi Community would be an ideal fit. Yes, some the worst offenders have signed up (Microsoft, who Jon has called out more than once, Facebook and Google to name a few) but hopefully they have good intentions (who knows?) and will use their massive Web presence to help turn things around and make it a better place, a safer place to be. So, to Jon and the principals at Vivaldi, should we not contribute? This diverse, dynamic, respectful community could become a moving  force behind the contract. The Vivaldi Community already seems to be inline with the principles of this document and, I feel, we should sign up (if we have not already). We could be a voice in improving the Web. I say not that we each must sign up (I have) and if you agree to the contract's principles please feel free to. If you do not, there should be no pressure to do so (even if the Vivaldi Community as as whole decides to join)...