Sunday Musings

Call it subterfuge if you will… I end up on Sunday evenings with the kids in bed and having about 1.5 hours of purely personal time in which to decide to write a blog entry, update some information on my personal wiki, read, watch TV. Not watch the Raiders this year because they are now 4/9. But that’s even better than the 49′ers by all accounts. So now, I have this time to consider how I have been doing things, what I record, and what I see in the next weeks and months. Its that personal reflection time that I think everyone needs a share of. A person told me once there is an amazing difference between solitude and loneliness. Solitude is being alone and liking it; loneliness is being alone and hating it. I think I am primarily a solitary type person for the most part. Kids have kind of shocked me out of some of it; but I still enjoy those rare moments when my son has no computer hardware problem and my daughter is not asking me to watch another Godzilla movie. Well, perhaps I really, secretly enjoy both of those…
Other times though, when the kids are in school and the wife is asleep and its so quiet, I start thinking about things. Things like blogging or “wiki’ing”. Wiki’ing is an interesting pursuit. What started for me as simply recording a few factoids has turned into obsession. Having a personal wiki means I have a place to store mental meanderings that I really don’t want to post here on the blog. Its not like thousands of people read this stuff anyways. I kinda think my readership is down there in the single digits and perhaps its best that way. I don’t have any particularly englightening things to pass on any longer. I’ve moved past more than a few things and if my current work search pans out, I’ll move past even more. I still believe though, even with me desiring to move on along, that Linux is doomed to fail or at least be left in the evolutionary backwaters IF we do not see a joining of efforts. The triangle of use in Linux demands no less and I don’t see where it can grow or evolve without some basic change to how it creates standards that unite the three sides of my postulated triangle…

But now since this is a musing post, I can muse on. Musing is fun because it allows me to slip outside myself and watch what I do for a minute; how I muse, what I muse, and what I want to muse about. Everyone needs to muse and ruminate and consider. Ruminate sounds different but if that’s what you do, do it! I do think there is a value to managing data and I’ve started looking at the Getting Things Done mantra for aways and means to organize my life into better represented segments and not have information scattered here and there. The personal wiki is my attempt at doing that. But its become more than just that and if you need a “musing solution” (not one that’s amusing…) I heartily recommend that you find yourself a tool. Tools separate us, make us what we are. Use the tools! Become a habilis; a tool user.