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February 15, 2025For those who’re just joining us, I’ve dusted off a two-decade-old project idea and have actually started working on it. There’s a working prototype which I’m not going to link in this post, because this text will likely be around long after it’s been and gone, either shelved for another 20 years or thrown online in some kind of working form. [...]
February 9, 2025In April 2005, I registered a domain name. I had a plan, and it was an ambitious one. I had read an O’Reilly book on XML (cover-to-cover) a couple of years beforehand, and it did something to my brain and I thought I could see through time. Weblogs were ascending fast, the web was exciting, … [Read more …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

Apparently my railway line is going full bus replacement for two weeks at the end of April and I can't wait to find out what they fill them up with. I don't think there are enough electric ones around to handle that scale of operation.

It is my last work day before two weeks off and I have an item in my schedule that cannot be done until after 5pm, and must be done today.

This is inhumane.

After a whole lot of ... everything ... happening, I finally got to my post office box for the first time in ages and I have received ART!

A fine compact disk full of audio from @doktorb is here! Yay!

I will go out and scour the local roadsides for a CD player immediately!

A CD in a case with