And while at it, I've also upgraded both Celina-Celeste.com, Alexander-Arian.com, and Katalin-Brynjar.com to HTTPS.

Now we're cooking!

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!

If I'm allowed to be a tad personal here for a second, many of my greatest achievements have not come from my professional career, but rather my private life. It has been getting married to my gorgeous wife. It has been being blessed with two beautiful children, a boy and a girl. And, most of all, it has been making the most precious of memories in our daily lives together.

Preparing for the wedding, and later also both children's baptisms, it came quite natural for me to take on the designs myself. I early on decided to craft an organic skeuomorphic design that would translate well to both paper and screen. This allowed me to quickly create a wealth of custom designs, for everything from seating charts and wall-size banners through wine labels and place cards to invitations and web site, all with very little effort.

The color scheme of the wedding design proved particularly challenging though, as it needed to overpower the iridescent green and dark peach marble of the ballroom venue while still remaining easy on the eye. After a lot of trial and error, I finally arrived at a color fundament of Prussian blue and gold with Baroque undertones. Conversely, both baptism designs were blissfully smooth sailing, primarily consisting of softer and lighter pallet swaps of the original wedding design.

As the years have gone by, I've slowly had to let go of the domain names for the web sites of these events. As such, I am now relocating these three web sites to Mednotes.net for them to remain indefinitely available on the greater internet.

So feel free to visit Celina-Celeste.com, Alexander-Arian.com, or Katalin-Brynjar.com to see how we chose to celebrate these most important of moments. And for all of you who originally attended one or more of these gatherings, I wish you a wonderful trip back down memory lane together with us...

And with the final ad revenue payment received, I have stripped this web site for all Google-specific code. I have also removed the visitor counter, and even that pesky invisible 'tracking pixel' on the PayPal donation button (yeah, you probably didn't know about that one, now did you?).

This web site should now be pure unadulterated code, 100% free of any profiling, tracking, and advertisement!

But now that Mednotes.net has been completely demonetized, any help I can get counts more than ever! So please consider supporting this web site if you have a couple of bucks to spare!

And just like that, my old server space on the old server is alive and kicking once again! Not that I have any definite real world use for it now that Mednotes.net officially has moved to the new server, but a pleasant surprise to have a potential fallback server on hand in case my new server by any chance temporarily goes offline at any point in the future.

My web hosting service never stops to amaze me, so, once again, a big shout-out to Drávanet!

There are few things that scare me more than the thought of factual fallacies potentially having affected my perception of reality. This concern was the primary catalyst of proofreading every single last fact in my lecture notes against 5-9 different sources back in the day, and has kept me in pursuit of the objective truth ever since.

But, as Google and Facebook in particular keeps on fingerprinting our personalities, our core beliefs, and our deepest desires, more and more of our understanding of the world around us is in danger of being defined by the highest bidder rather than anything even remotely resembling the greater truth.

If these two tech giants had stuck to convincing us to buy a somewhat poorer vacuum cleaner, their sins might have been excused. However, their intimate knowledge of who each of us truly are is increasingly being used to manipulate our belief systems, our ethical compass, and our political views, and polarize us as a society...

...and that is INEXCUSABLE!

I have in recent years all but completely phased out both Google and Facebook from my personal life, and today I am happy to announce that I am starting to phase out every last bit of code used for profiling, tracking, and advertisement here at this web site as well. I have already stripped all Facebook-specific code, and all Google-specific code will follow as soon as the next ad revenue payment has been effectuated.

This will, of course, make the full economic burden of maintaining Mednotes.net fall on my own shoulders, so I hope you consider throwing me a bone if you have enjoyed the fruits of my labor throughout the years.

When Mednotes.net was first coded closer to 2 decades ago, the internet was a much simpler place. One of the quirks back then was that most mainstream web browsers didn't understand foreign language accents, symbols, and punctuation. I therefore had to use specific codes to force these web browsers to display such characters.

However, as the web has evolved, these codes are mostly no longer needed. A side effect of this is that several browsers now display these codes in clear view, making text in best case untidy and in worst case plain unreadable.

So, while I've been at it, I've sifted through every last corner of this web site correcting all those pesky typographical errors as well as a plethora of other minor code slip-ups.

Now let's hope the web site will hang in there for the next couple of decades as well!