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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 …] [...]

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I've definitely achieved adulthood because I am at a point where I can come home, say something like "would you like a nightcap?" and then make a dry martini in my lounge room. As far as I'm aware this is all that is required.

Random note if anybody else has one of these - it's marked as using a 17V DC input, but this one came with a generic 12V 2.5A wall wart and that works fine, apparently.

Maybe it'd be more demanding if the volume was cranked right up and processing video as well?

Oh, and here's a review of it from 2007:
cnet.com/reviews/xtrememac-tan

(They're spot on about the bass, I'm playing some Juno Reactor on it now and it's really thumping!)

XtremeMac Tango Audio System for iPod review: XtremeMac Tango Audio System for iPod

Bass-addicted iPod-owners will dig the XtremeMac Tango, though the design…

https://www.cnet.com/reviews/xtrememac-tango-audio-system-for-ipod-review

The iPod dock works perfectly! I would love to find the remote control for it one day, but it'll do.

I can't test the *S-video out*(!) though as I don't have a working video iPod right now but that's a hell of a feature to have around!

A black and red U2 special edition iPod in a beige XtremeMac speaker dock Back of an XtremeMac speaker dock showing AV out, line in, and S-video out sockets