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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

Tonight I'm having "a double" which is a grown-up drink to which I add two marshmallows, and then take one out after getting worried about the amount of calories in it.

I had a great idea to order the cheapest bagpipes on AliExpress as a joke and to see how terrible a sound I could make, and have been thwarted by the inconvenient fact that there are no bagpipes on AliExpress.

Love that I left some of my job alert emails going, because it's nice to know that I could be getting paid less to work on ServiceNow development for the federal police if I ever decided job satisfaction was not for me.

Holy shit my GP seems to have royally fucked me over. I got two letters forwarded TODAY that have deadlines in the past.

Apparently my previous GP needs to have sent them a letter transferring prescription authority or something, and a) she left the clinic I saw her at, and b) the entire clinic closed, so I have no fucking idea where to start unpicking this fuckery.

Edit: I am venting and not looking for advice thank you.