Well, I didn’t think it would be three years before I would write here again. Most of my writing (about Universalism and church administration) is at revscottwells.com, but honestly I’ve not said much there either. Did the pandemic do that much to me? The collapse of Unitarian Universalist institutions and churches generally? Middle age? Perhaps.
But I do write, but for mainly myself and a private audience, and so I thought I would try to make this blog a true web log and start logging some of my miscellaneous links, thoughts and tidbits here. Even if nobody else reads it, I can use this blog as a commonplace. (Wikipedia)
One page that I have been working on lately is on a pubnix (public access UNIX-now-Linux shell) account, which scratches a lot of nostalgic itches and speaks to my concerns about sustainability in the larger sense, and with computing in particular. The page itself is whisper-light and speedy to load; that’s on purpose. It’s also links to other useful sites that are also very light. Not just a demonstration project, but a useful one: the wifi and mobile connection on a train can be thin and spotty. And this was a concern when Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico (Wikipedia) in 2017, leaving the people without grid power and easy communication. Having grown up in hurricane zones, you have to plan for failure and plan to make do.
Feel free to use it, link to it or imitate it for your own low-bandwith needs.
