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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 1, 2026As the Rainbow Headcleaner project actually starts coming to a head, one thing I want to do is write a little bit about each track on the album as I finalise the version that’s going on the tape. I’m starting with the easiest one, Beaten Eggs. [...]

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Standing outside the locked door of my GP's office at 8:50am with three other people. The hours on the door say they open at 9am, and they allowed me to book a 9am appointment.

Seems like maybe they should have some kind of time padding in place for a few things.

A while back I described NetBSD as the operating system I use when I want a computer I can expect to behave the same way ten years from now as it did ten years ago, and that's starting to feel more important to me than ever. 🙃