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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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Did a test print of a little Pi1541 case I really liked the look of, with its very classic Commodore style.

Need to move some bits around in the model because I have a Pi Zero and the SD card slot is in the wrong spot for a start, but it'll look great printed in a more appropriate beige later.

A small plastic case with angled front for a display screen wirh a Pi1541 in it, and front and top panels for it nearby A small grey box with an angled front with a small screen, red and green LEDs and spots for 5 buttons
Excerpt from my Beowulf screenplay

Actually I'm probably going to have to leave Grendel's mum out entirely or we'll never pass the Bechdel Test