I just ssh'd into the zaibatsu for the first time.

What follows is just me thinking out loud, but I guess 
that's all a phlog ever is in the end.

I spent most of my first cup of coffee skulking through old 
posts on the bbs. In the process, I became a little more 
familiar with what you're all trying to do, and I like it, 
especially the effort to rsync the bbs between the zaibatsu 
and the republic, and to link other features (mail, etc.)

One thing that was confusing was that I thought I was using 
gboard to read the bbs, but then I tried telem, which is 
supposed to be lighter on resources, and the experience 
seemed identical. So I'm not sure if I was on telem in the 
first place... (perhaps it's the default bbs client now?).

In one of the posts, someone mentioned that the bbs 
replicates the functions of nntp, and I think that is true 
to a great extent. Ideally, it would be cool if I could read 
the bbs entries using slrn. I suspect someone just thought: 
"write that program yourself [expletive, expletive]."

I also like the idea of creating a uniform way to replicate 
the micro-pubnix easily, so that new servers could be set up 
as the userbase grows, and further 
decentralization/federation could take place.

On a completely unrelated note, up until this point, I've 
been composing my phlog entries using bluefish editor so 
that I could set the line lengths (to 60 characters, for 
readability). But I wanted to be able to compose them in a 
terminal-based editor.

Last night I tried vim. I still hate it. I started out on a 
university mainframe account, where PINE was the default 
mail client. As a result I've always been a pico/nano user.

So this morning I looked into nano commands and it turns out 
that you can set the line length as follows, when you're 
initiating the program:

nano -r 60

Substitute whatever line length you want. Ctrl-J if you need 
to rejustify a paragraph after editing it. 

I'm going to alias that command as edgopher or something 
like that. I don't want the line length as a default, 
because I use nano for scripts, config files, etc.

Anyways, time to get ready for work. I have an exam. On a 
Saturday. Expletive, expletive.