From 727e6c9502923b2bcae298282a81e4bd483df4d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jedidiah Barber <contact@jedbarber.id.au>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:41:08 +1200
Subject: Updated About page

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 project/templates/about.html | 32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/project/templates/about.html b/project/templates/about.html
index c2c744c..7b6dc96 100644
--- a/project/templates/about.html
+++ b/project/templates/about.html
@@ -17,17 +17,22 @@
 
 <h4>About Me</h4>
 
-<p>Have you ever looked at the way things are done and just wanted to make it <em>better</em>? I
-feel like that all the time. It's not even a matter of introducing something new. The field of
-computing is littered with ideas that are well researched, have working prototypes, yet ended up
-abandoned decades ago for no apparent reason. I expect other fields are probably similar. One of my
-goals in life is to reduce this gap between what's known and what's actually used. Mainly in
-software development, because that's what I'm most familiar with.</p>
-
-<p>So this website is primarily about hosting and talking about programming projects. Expect a bunch
-of smaller less useful pieces before I get to the good stuff. But also expect electronics, civics,
-foreign languages... basically anything catching my interest about which I can say something data
-driven or otherwise interesting.</p>
+<p>Does the massive gap between what is known and what is mainstream bother anyone else? It bothers
+me. The field of computing is littered with ideas that are well researched, have working prototypes,
+and would be very useful, yet ended up abandoned decades ago for no apparent reason. I expect other
+fields are probably similar. One of my goals in life is to reduce this gap between what's known and
+what's actually used. Mainly in software development, because that's what I'm most familiar with.
+</p>
+
+<p>So this website is primarily about hosting and talking about programming projects. But also
+expect electronics, civics, foreign languages, food, videogames... basically anything catching my
+interest about which I can say something data driven or otherwise interesting.</p>
+
+<p>Details of where I grew up and whatnot are unimportant, but it is worth noting that in the first
+half of 2021 I moved my place of residence from NSW, Australia to the South Island of New Zealand
+due to extreme corruption and abuses of power going on in the Australian Federal Government. This
+caused this website to go offline for a few months since it was being hosted on a home server at the
+time, but it has since been moved to a VPS so that's all fixed now.</p>
 
 <h4>Qualifications</h4>
 
@@ -39,7 +44,8 @@ driven or otherwise interesting.</p>
 </ul>
 
 <p>In 2012 I almost completed an extra honours year in computer science, before finding out that I'm
-really not cut out for research. My mindset is too focused on solving problems. Practical problems.
+really not cut out for research. My mindset is too focused on solving practical problems and my
+talent for prose is comparatively not so great.
 </p>
 
 <h4>Contact</h4>
@@ -51,7 +57,7 @@ really not cut out for research. My mindset is too focused on solving problems.
     </tr>
     <tr>
         <td>IRC:</td>
-        <td>jedb on irc.freenode.net</td>
+        <td>jedb on irc.libera.chat</td>
     </tr>
 </table>
 
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