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Poor old sinner. It's finally died now, hasn't it?

Poor old Sinner, indeed. I do check it from time to time, hoping to find RedCelt69 locking horns with wild_quinine or Senethro. But I think those days are over.

So dead.

I'm kind of puzzled where the 1000s of pageviews are coming from.

There were at least many, many thousands of spam posts awaiting moderator approval, last time I visited this place (several months ago). They seem to have all gone now, maybe somebody deleted them.

EDIt: Ah, I see Oli did.

It's like usenet without the binaries.

wild_quinine wrote:It's like usenet without the binaries.

I doubt the average undergraduate today would even have a clue what Usenet is / was. They probably just about remember dial-up.

Hey you guys. How's life?

macgamer wrote:

wild_quinine wrote:It's like usenet without the binaries.

I doubt the average undergraduate today would even have a clue what Usenet is / was. They probably just about remember dial-up.

There's a damn depressing thought.

The most depressing thing for many of us who were around for the birth of the commercial internet, is that those early days of the web, and the rise of Napster, may well be our Summer of Love. It was a brief period in which we believed we could make the world a better place, before the worst of human nature set in, and the firewalls, censorship and lawsuits began. In the event, we may have been hopelessly naive.

On the plus side, life is good. Thanks for asking.

Since the Fife Park book I have had two kids and written a significant chunk of another two books. I've made more time in my life to write, and changed jobs from the one that was eating me alive.

If the sinner is still alive when I finish one of those books, I'll let you all know.

Things could be better.

I hope to finish my PhD thesis before Christmas, which might, should, be possible. However, I feel I have wasted four years of my life. My supervisor has a heart of stone. If I am appreciated, she keeps it to herself.

Today was quite a bad day. My pet cat is seriously ill. I took her to the animal hospital and was told it has kidney failure and probably won't live. She's such a loving creature.

Obviously, life could be much worse -- it hasn't been destroyed by a typhoon for example.

macgamer wrote:I hope to finish my PhD thesis before Christmas, which might, should, be possible. However, I feel I have wasted four years of my life. My supervisor has a heart of stone. If I am appreciated, she keeps it to herself.

Feeling low during the last tiring run of any big project is common. Keep going, you've almost done it!

And remember, you were never writing a PhD thesis for your supervisor.

Maybe read some http://www.phdcomics.com, to remind yourself of how much of this experience you share with a diaspora of kindred spirits.

wild_quinine wrote:Maybe read some http://www.phdcomics.com, to remind yourself of how much of this experience you share with a diaspora of kindred spirits.

Yes, I do occasionally.

I feel as if this is my present state:



19th December is the deadline for a pre-Christmas submission.

No, it's all still going strong!

Funnily enough I was just remniscing, tried my old account, credentials still check out... Wow, nostalgia overload.