And as a completely unintended consequence of upgrading this web site to HTTPS, the picture viewer and slide presenter scripts suddenly have started working properly on mobile devices again.

Perhaps all these hours weren't a complete and utter waste of life after all...

While I appreciate the added layer of security that HTTPS provides on a personal level, I truly deeply despise it as a web designer.

Most newer web browsers either mark web sites not upgraded to HTTPS as 'not secure', or, in worst case, outright blocks visitors from reaching the web sites at all.

It requires a lot of tiresome manual labor changing the address of every single link, every single picture, and every single script on every single page of a web site to HTTPS, and even a single missed address will cause most modern web browsers to keep on marking the web site as 'not secure'.

It partially or completely breaks compatibility with several older systems and web browsers that many visitors are required or forced to use, and prevents anyone but the most tech savvy from reaching the web sites on these devices.

Most of the security certificates required to upgrade a web site to HTTPS need to be renewed every couple of months, requiring the web site administrator to either always be on his toes, installing complex and intrusive self-renewing scripts, or pay extortionate amounts of money to certificate providers to automatically renew these perpetually expiring certificates.

And, worst of all, it creates a third failure point, in addition to the domain name and server space, that can make any legacy web site permanently inaccessible forever.

As such, I've put off upgrading all my web sites to HTTPS for years and years, but now see no other option than to buckle under pressure to ensure that my web sites remain available on the modern internet.

First out, of course, is Mednotes.net, with my other web sites following suit in the not too distant future.

Here goes nothing!

In my experience, life has had a peculiar tendency to come full circle in the strangest of ways.

During my years at medical school, I, from time to time, spent the short breaks between study sessions sifting through old, abandoned, and forgotten video games of the past. Though I never really was an avid gamer myself, I came to appreciate games first and foremost as an art form. Slowly chopping away at it a couple of games at a time, 100.000 games slowly were whittled down to 1.000 of the most passionately crafted pieces of entertainment history ever created. I briefly flirted with the thought of a GP2X open source game console to make good use of the collection during my final year of studies, but quickly put the idea aside.

...and for the longest time thereon out, the compilation was left in the darkest corner of my hard drive collecting dust...

Come the pandemic, I was in dire need of a project to keep me sane during the long ferry rides to and from the hospital on the mainland every day. And purely by coincidence, the BittBoy PocketGo handheld, a literal spiritual successor of the GP2X, caught my peripheral vision.

Since then, I've gradually pushed the limits of what this small but mighty portable device can do, and it has slowly evolved into a fully fledged historical gaming archive, media center, and creative studio all-in-one.

In the coming months, I'll be releasing a handful of brand new software compatible with the original GP2X, the PocketGo, and every other open source game console in between supporting the GMenu2X operating system.

Let's go!

When this web site first saw the light of day during the fall of 2006, it came quite natural to me having the copyright text at the bottom of every page mirror that of my lecture notes. However, this also created a factual fallacy, making it seem that the website itself was a couple of years older than actual was the case.

As hoc anno 2026 marks the true 20th anniversary of Mednotes.net in its present form, I've finally gotten around to correcting this wrong.

Here's to the next 20 years!