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May 17, 2026A long, long time ago I had an idea for a silly joke. Exactly when it hard to pin down, but the seeds were planted in the mid 1990s, in a file called bands.txt. This was a collaborative list of random phrases uttered by people we knew, that had been taken out of context on … [Read more …] [...]
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. [...]
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I might have to set up a system of random taglines for AltaVido because I keep coming up with new ones and I don't want to choose.
Starting a search engine in 2026 can't be that hard. How many web pages can there possibly be? Ten?
Here's a bonus, please don't reduce my servers to smoking rubble while I sleep.
Goodnight, friendos.
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