Hello World

Yesterday I registered a domain name called rwebdb.com, or rWebDB as in Our Web DB where DB := database (of course).

There’s nothing at the site yet. And there won’t be for a [very?] long time. So hold your horses.

Why the announcement? A couple reasons. One, I want to make it more difficult for myself to ignore the site. And, two, it’s a small step toward the ideas I wrote about here, here, here, and here.

In all honesty, I have no idea where things will go with this. I have some vague hopes of designing and developing something [a web db?] that can then be open-sourced, improved upon, and enlivened with the new ideas of others.

My belief is that everyone everywhere has the right to learn. My hope is that someday learning will be free throughout each person’s lifetime.

It is such an implausible hope that I still get embarrassed saying it, although it’s getting easier. And when I remember the inimitable question of Richard Feynman, “what do you care what other people think?” it brings a smile.