Chinwag Posts

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] https://social.chinwag.org/@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
(this is a terrible cassette player do not buy one, I have plans involving hackery for it)
These are truly the days of miracle and wonder.

In my life I have dealt with some extremely obtuse and unfriendly user interfaces, run software that was undocumented and confusing, and had to trace paths of assumed knowledge back into archived forum posts with critical information lost up link rot many times.
I have always generally emerged victorious.
Trying to get a hard drive loaded up with a few games on a Playstation 2 nearly defeated me on all counts as a perfect storm of all the above.
Nearly.
I'm getting too old for this shit.
Why get overcomplicated and fancy when you could just make a garlic and cheese pizza?

apparently my Playstation 2 hard disk adaptor was just delivered

