Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 16 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 16 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]

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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. [...]

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@mike

Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.

Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.

I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.

I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine

16 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

My analysis is strongly indicative of ghosts.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 16 hours ago

16 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

For today's spectacular magic trick, watch as I produce kernel errors indicative of physical drive failure ... inside a virtual machine!

Marvel as the hypervisor reports no issues at all!

🙃

#SysadminLife

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 18 hours ago

18 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Henceforth I will be referring to my Anzac biscuits as "my award-winning Anzac biscuits".

The secret ingredient is sugar.

Some Anzac bikkies on a table with a prize ribbon next to them reading

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 1 day ago

1 day ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

@lardmotel what was the "Since the Accident Technical Reference" mentioned on the back cover to send away for? Trying to search for this now just returns documents for pet food manufacturing safety standards and the address just shows on Google maps as a hazy mist from another dimension, which is pretty cool and disturbing.