Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 6 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 6 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

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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. [...]

It’s feeds, but in a tube …

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 …] [...]

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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

6 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Got a dock for my T530, it came with keys and I didn't realise the lock lights up red when it's on. This is so cool.

Corner of a ThinkPad attached to a dock, which has a key sticking out the side of it and a red icon of a lock lit up

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 7 hours ago

7 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Me, today: Why can't I find a single power cable anywhere? I have dozens! How can they all be missing? What's going on here?

Me, a few weeks ago: This box will be perfect for storing all my mixed power cables! I will put them all in here and I'll never have trouble finding the one I need ever again! I am the god of organisation!

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 10 hours ago

10 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Call me crazy, but I think your description of this item may not be 100% accurate.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 11 hours ago

11 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

The #NTP server in my home is

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 21 hours ago

21 hours ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I have had a weird pain across the bridge of my nose today and if I wasn't totally sure of what I'd been doing this week I'd suspect I'd been hit in the face by something.

I did have some weirdass dreams the last few days, but I don't think I've been sleepwalking.