First Annual.
Tomorrow, or more accurately, tonight is my birthday. I usually let these things pass me by. The last few years have found me on planes or by myself in a strange city or somewhere. This year, my friends in Cairo have quietly insisted on a party, and I am going to indulge them. [...]

Happy Birthday

Today is, as some reckon, the 17th birthday of Linux, the open-source UNIX-like operating system which has become increasingly popular in recent years. I adopted Linux about 2 years ago, first dual-booting (having 2 operating systems installed on the same machine and choosing at startup) Fedora, and then Ubuntu. Then I got brave and [...]

et al.
While self-critical, I typically don’t allow myself to indulge in speculative self-loathing, like wondering what I am doing or what I will do next.
Typically.
That said, there is nothing like a birthday—mine, today—to really push one into such a mood. So, I was already there, and then I read this:

It made me wonder [...]