{"id":11206,"date":"2022-05-09T03:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11206"},"modified":"2022-05-09T03:01:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T07:01:42","slug":"twenty-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11206","title":{"rendered":"Twenty years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s now Monday, May 9, 2022. And it is an anniversary of sorts.<\/p>\n

No I am not talking about Putin and his planned “victory” parade, as he is busy desecrating the legacy of the Soviet Union’s heroic fight in the Great Patriotic War against a genocidal enemy.<\/p>\n

I am referring to something much more personal. This sentence:<\/p>\n

I watched The Matrix<\/a>, for the first time. I’ve seen\u00a0Dark City<\/a>, and I loved it. I have heard all sorts of bad things about The Matrix, so I had low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised. Maybe not as well done as Dark City, it was nevertheless a surprisingly intelligent movie for a blockbuster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not very profound or insightful, is it.<\/p>\n

But it happens to be my first ever blog entry<\/a>, written when I still refused to call a blog a “blog”, calling it instead my “Day Book”, in the tradition of the late Jerry Pournelle.<\/p>\n

So there. Will I be around twenty years from now? Perhaps more pertinently, will the world as we know it still be around?<\/p>\n

What can I say? I am looking forward to marking the 40th anniversary of my blog on May 9, 2042, with another blog entry, hopefully celebrating a decent, prosperous, safe, mostly peaceful world.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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