Making green tea

I usually make green tea with water slightly below 100°C which I judge by listening to the electric kettle as it approaches boiling. Unfortunately I seem to keep deciding to make tea exactly when the washing machine and the coffee machine are both running so I reach the listening phase then think, oh dear. No doubt I shall soon get better at planning these things.

Online discussion fora

I rather like learning new things and having my mind changed. Unfortunately, my journal entry here last Fall about open drug-dealing online is not surprising: most newsgroups have been far more noise than signal for many years now, maybe a couple of decades indeed, though good questions would probably still draw useful answers on comp.theory despite the usual drivel that fills it.

( Other worthwhile fora have declined. )

I am probably something of an anachronism in ( not wanting to depend on graphical web browsers. )

My own personal computing plans for the New Year may rather enable a messaging system that borrows what I like most from others but that smells rather like reinventing a technological wheel to address a social need. Still, something Internet-based is useful for getting a first-hand perspective from wide afield and barriers to entry may be key (today is September 9,616th 1993). I should check how bofhnet is doing.