Musings on the Nature of Time, by Neil McGowan
Musings on the Nature of Time The last few months have been manic for me and seem to have passed by in a blur. The daytime job has been full-on, and my old laptop decided to die (top tip – have a decent backup strategy; when the hard drive failed I only lost a few hundred words due to multiple backups. I got my fingers burned many years ago when I lost work due to not having backups). It also took quite a while to source laptop – admittedly because I have slightly unusual requirements, chief of which is an unlocked bootloader to load my preferred operating system. I’ve been a Linux user since 2003, and my workflows have evolved around it; trying to use Windows is jarring for me (and TBH, I’m not a fan of Windows 11, or the latest version of Office that comes with it – it also doesn’t play nicely with my home server setup). To cut a long story short, I eventually found a reasonable spec Dell that’s only a few years old. Twenty minutes after powering it up, I was up and...