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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. [...]

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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

Chinwag admin, fan of open communication standards, maintainer of communities, male comedienne.

Winner of Time Magazine "Person of the Year" 2006 and will never get tired of that joke.

I talk about #retrocomputing a lot. I also do a lot of #gardening and occasionally make #bread and #beer. I have been a Unix #sysadmin for about 30 years but I think I'll be OK.

I live in #Melbourne, #Australia and sometimes tell jokes on stages around here. I co-host a #StarTrek podcast with @ThePingMachine

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A very special episode of Kitchen Nightmares that's just Gordon Ramsay yelling at Paul Kelly for half an hour because his gravy recipe is shit.

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I have been aware for a while that the ThinkPad T530 is quite hackable and upgradeable, but I’m only just now actually looking into it and oh god I think I could get really carried away here. I just started looking at what CPUs I could get after I put some more RAM in it.

I have had one sitting in the cupboard for about four years with a dead hard drive waiting for me to get around to it and it’s probably for the best I didn’t notice this earlier.