As if to demonstrate that cyberplankton is a rather slow substrate, the next post sure took its time, hm? But in the meantime, a bunch of code got cleaned up, other parts got worse... and on top of it all, a switch from Windows to Linux meant (and still means) not only relearning a handful of things, but rethinking pretty much everything I knew about handling computers. That alone should be material enough for a blog, but that is not even a focus here really, more a side effect.

So, what does one really say upon starting a blog? Let's perhaps start with...