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3000 days!

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meta epoch Arvelie

My website is 3000 days old today 1. Wahey!

I only know that because of the “osgav epoch” thing I added to my blog post archive page a few years ago 2. In a more normal way of counting, it is the fairly insignificant age of 8 years and 2 months and 18 days old. But that’s boring. 3000 days is much more fun.

I had a vague recollection of what inspired this osgav epoch thing so I’ve just gone and dug up the source of that: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/arvelie.html 3

Arvelie is definitely more obscure than counting up from zero. I like the result though. I remember wondering what the codes were the first time I browsed that website, and then eventually finding an explanation for them. Clearly I was very taken by it and came up with a simple imitation, which I have grown very fond of. Maybe I’ll try and add Arvelie to osgav.run some day? Maybe not? If I do, one thing is for sure though: the osgav epoch will be right there next to it.

Anyway, here’s to the next +1000! By which time osgav.run will be… well it’ll be osgav epoch 4000 of course.

  1. actually its 3001 days old, but since “osgav epoch” started at 0, its the 3001st day that gets prefixed with 3000, and it would just look wrong to have the “3000 days!” post prefixed with [2999] ↩︎

  2. which no longer exists in the form described on my lab page about it, I should update that so it makes more sense… ↩︎

  3. see also: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/neralie.html and https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/time.html ↩︎

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