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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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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.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

It's really not an upgrade that has good screenshot or photo potential, but my ThinkPad T530 now has fancy 802.11ac wifi, thanks to being able to replace the stock firmware which had an allow list for specific devices only.

I *think* that's the last bit of internal hardware I plan to mess with, unless I come up with a compelling reason to replace the WWAN module with storage or something. I can't imagine I'll ever want to spring for a SIM card and data plan for this thing but it's nice to know the option exists I guess.