h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I finally got kicked off the network at work earlier this morning, as it went down for routine maintenance. I was staying back late to complete as much of the project on which I am still working as possible, before the money - and hence the time which I have to do things - runs out today. I looked up, bleary-eyed, to realise that I was 14 kilometres or so from home as measured on my bike speedo, with no money to catch a cab, and no buses running at this time of night (or morning, as it was in this case). "Oh well," I thought, "14 kilometres isn't THAT far..." I was also impressed to find bubster was still around, too, almost to the time when I started walking, and I thought that if he can stay around to work, surely I can walk a bit...!

The night is dark at one o'clock. It wasn't that cold tonight as I began walking, and the wind on the ground was unnoticeable. There was some wind blowing the clouds over my head as I walked through the park between Manuka and Barton, from behind my shoulders, in exactly the direction I was walking when I noticed them, streaming and wispy and moving fast. I had a sudden sense of something much bigger than me, that achieves all it needs to without effort. I considered again how I could apply this to my own life.

I turned over some other ideas in my head, too, of course. I considered h2g2, and what information it might hold, merely by being there. It occurred to me that h2g2 may be more than the sum of its links, but nobody has figured out - actually done the hard grind of counting and identifying - what that sum might be yet. I suspect that this may be a really big part of h2g2's value, but there is no easy way to quantify it. I wondered how I might be able to apply this to my own web site.

I reached home at about three o'clock, turned on JJJ and made myself a cup of coffee. I don't really think there's any point in going to sleep tonight. I have to be at work as early as possible in the morning! I think I'll just take care of a few things on the web while it's quiet...