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I've been keeping a wikipedia on myself, _everything_ about me and who I am, what I've done and who I want to be in a wiki for the last 4 years. It has been th

by maeon3 15y ago

I've been keeping a wikipedia on myself, _everything_ about me and who I am, what I've done and who I want to be in a wiki for the last 4 years. It has been the most illuminating thing I've ever done, and I'm so happy I took the plunge that first day. Everything is in it, taxes, dental, computers, girlfriends, projects, outcomes, desires, todo, and thousands of other categories. Looking back on my life through the wikipedia, I see a very different person than my own memory remembers. You'd be astonished how much stuff your brain removes for lack of use. I just use bluefish editor with basic html files. I've got hotkeys to make templates and. The root node is my full name, even the universe itself falls under that category, because the only way I know the universe exists is through my observations. The most gratifying part is the page outlining my geneology, I have information documented about my DNA line going up 3 levels, and if you make a point to get really detailed information on your parents, grand parents and great grand parents (biological) You'll see health problems and DNA related hardware issues. I discovered programmers and a certain abilities/disabilities run in my mother's side, I'm a programmer. With enough analysis I could probably identify the gene sequences, and thus help my offspring by telling them what their problems are going to be before they experience them, by looking at dominant and recessive traits.

pnathan 15y ago
A nerd journal. :-)
eru 15y ago
Just take into account that not all heritable traits spread via genes.
bokonon 15y ago
I really like this idea. What do you use to do this? Or what do you think would work best? I can't tell if Tiddlywiki would be good for this sort of thing.
- isTravis 15y ago
  Agreed! I too would like to know what you use to do this, and what type of encryption you're able to use.
  - maeon3 15y ago
    My encryption is to keep everything on a hard drive that isn't connected to the internet. The insurance companies would no doubt like to see my timeline on my health category with a timeline on dates of every issue I have ever had with the hundreds of sub components of my body with everything from acne to heart trouble to ringing in ears to joint pain. I have a category with everything I intend to do to the child if I have kids. I have a category with pictures of me every year from 3 days old to today. I do the same with my parents and grandparents (which is more spotty). I have a category on all the friends I've ever had, what they liked, why they liked me, what I did to become aquainted, birthdays, their parents, all the information about them you would expect a close friend to have. I've got all my tax returns back to 2005 (I started the wiki somewhere in 2007). My current net worth plotted on a chart, documented by what I did which caused certain plunges and rises in that graph. A big category on girlfriends, kinds of women and what works with some. I can give you a cruise through every significant romantic event in my life from my first kiss back in college to sexual encounters. With photos of each girl. Each girl I dated given a full psycho analysis, funny how I searched out each edge of the (Smart, Sane, Pretty pick any two) triangle. I even dated a few (1 of 3) and (0 of 3). Big mistakes that haunt you. I have a category of books I've read, and plotted those against my life timeline. What I've thought of them, how they changed me. Anyone who got ahold of this wikipedia and had 20 hours to read it all would know as much about me as I know about me. This wikipedia is what I want to see on dating websites, If I could include this on a dating website, and have all the girls do the same, it would make dating a lot easier. I imagine a post with dental records, tax returns, employment, income histories, aspirations, books read, history of diseases/conditions, family genetic lines, computers owned, friend structures, self psychoanalysis, and hundreds of other subjects which makes us unique from other humans. A big worry is that the hard drive bricks iself or gets stolen, this wikipedia is worth tens of thousands of dollars to me. My backup strategy is to make a hard drive cloned image every 3 months with clonezilla, with the hd stored in a physically different location. so my wiki would even survive an fbi takedown where they steal all your stuff. I've got all the programs I've ever written saved, so I can go back in time 4 years and see programs I wrote in C++, Visual Basic. It's like reviewing your essays from first grade, I can't bear to see them, my programming skill has gone up slowly but surly over time.
robertskmiles 15y ago
I hope you encrypt the hell out of that thing.

by maeon3 15y ago

pnathan 15y ago

A nerd journal. :-)

eru 15y ago

Just take into account that not all heritable traits spread via genes.

bokonon 15y ago

I really like this idea. What do you use to do this? Or what do you think would work best? I can't tell if Tiddlywiki would be good for this sort of thing.

isTravis 15y ago
Agreed! I too would like to know what you use to do this, and what type of encryption you're able to use.
- maeon3 15y ago
  My encryption is to keep everything on a hard drive that isn't connected to the internet. The insurance companies would no doubt like to see my timeline on my health category with a timeline on dates of every issue I have ever had with the hundreds of sub components of my body with everything from acne to heart trouble to ringing in ears to joint pain. I have a category with everything I intend to do to the child if I have kids. I have a category with pictures of me every year from 3 days old to today. I do the same with my parents and grandparents (which is more spotty). I have a category on all the friends I've ever had, what they liked, why they liked me, what I did to become aquainted, birthdays, their parents, all the information about them you would expect a close friend to have. I've got all my tax returns back to 2005 (I started the wiki somewhere in 2007). My current net worth plotted on a chart, documented by what I did which caused certain plunges and rises in that graph. A big category on girlfriends, kinds of women and what works with some. I can give you a cruise through every significant romantic event in my life from my first kiss back in college to sexual encounters. With photos of each girl. Each girl I dated given a full psycho analysis, funny how I searched out each edge of the (Smart, Sane, Pretty pick any two) triangle. I even dated a few (1 of 3) and (0 of 3). Big mistakes that haunt you. I have a category of books I've read, and plotted those against my life timeline. What I've thought of them, how they changed me. Anyone who got ahold of this wikipedia and had 20 hours to read it all would know as much about me as I know about me. This wikipedia is what I want to see on dating websites, If I could include this on a dating website, and have all the girls do the same, it would make dating a lot easier. I imagine a post with dental records, tax returns, employment, income histories, aspirations, books read, history of diseases/conditions, family genetic lines, computers owned, friend structures, self psychoanalysis, and hundreds of other subjects which makes us unique from other humans. A big worry is that the hard drive bricks iself or gets stolen, this wikipedia is worth tens of thousands of dollars to me. My backup strategy is to make a hard drive cloned image every 3 months with clonezilla, with the hd stored in a physically different location. so my wiki would even survive an fbi takedown where they steal all your stuff. I've got all the programs I've ever written saved, so I can go back in time 4 years and see programs I wrote in C++, Visual Basic. It's like reviewing your essays from first grade, I can't bear to see them, my programming skill has gone up slowly but surly over time.

robertskmiles 15y ago

I hope you encrypt the hell out of that thing.