28 January 2023
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After my post about the software quality i could observe in
the hospital my wife will deliver our baby in i got an 
email from agk confirming that the status of IT in the 
healthcare sector is abysmal. That triggered me to call 
a few former collegues from whom i know still working in 
the same hospital where i worked in with my wirst IT job 
and... well, lets just say the rosy days of using UNIX
workstations and uptimes measured in years are gone for
good there too. I ask myself: What has to happen to roll 
this changes back?

Moving on to somenthing more positive: After our wallpaper
disaster (which didn't get better with the new glue) i made
another trip to the hardware store and bought another type 
of wallpaper, this time it worked out like a breeze! And 
once more the old saying proved to be true: If you buy 
cheap, you buy twice!

Well... now with the kitchen finished, it really seems 
possible that the barn will be finished in the coming few
days, so our child will be born with a fully functional 
home... yeah!

I don't remember if i have posted it before, but i am now
using the full GNUstep environment as my desktop. That 
means: WindowMaker to... ahm.. make windows, GNUstep 
Workspace as filemanager and various GNUstep applications
like GNUMail, Gemas and so on. So far, it (at least for me)
offers a really nice desktop environment that - after you
get used to it - feels really productive and has a nice
usability. I also started to dabble into the programming 
using Objective-C and the GNUstep framework... i have to 
say, it feels really more like Smalltalk than C programming
which - at least for me - is really a positive thing.

Addendum
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While aimlessly surfing... ahm.. digging (we are in gopher
space, right?) through old and ancient gopherholes here on
SDF i stumbled upon the gopher manifesto posted in the 
pooderNet gopherhole... well, i don't know if there are now
more gopher users than back in 2003 when it was posted, but
even the fact that gopher is now very much alive (20 years
later!) is an astounding fact.