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  DATE : 2025.01.05
  TIME : 10:50
AUTHOR : SNOWCRASH@SDF.ORG
  MOOD : RELAXED
 TITLE : WELCOME TO 2025
 
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Well here we are, 2025. I have to say that 2024 had its share
of ups and downs, and the downs seemed deeper than the ups if I
am being completely honest. But look forward we must despite the
dumpster fire that our country is facing with Donald Trump and his
band of sycophants.

Something I was thinking about today as I searched the web for
interesting cooking recipes for the week is that the blogging
is dead. Every single cooking and recipe blog I visited is
infuriatingly unusable. Ads strangle the pages, pop-ups and
redirection abound, it's unusable garbage. Does anyone even do
these sites for fun? How much money do they expect to get? Are
they all jobless men and women that see their interest as
something to whore out for money? It's disheartening to be
honest. What is the point of the internet if it's unusable?

This led me to think about a domain I own for my name. I've
thought about using a github hosted jekyll site on it, something
fast, ad free, no javascript or other bullshit as a place to
record my thoughts and interests. But every time I start down
that path I think to myself, why? What's the point? Who would I
be doing it for? My kids? When I die the domain would eventually
get sold off to someone else. Would anyone else want to read my
drivel? Probably not. Would I b ebetter off just coming up with an
elegant latex journal format that I can record my thoughts (I have
terribly handwriting), print them off and put them into a binder?

Honestly this idea doesn't seem too bad.


-Snowcrash