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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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The case is scuffed and scratched and while I've thought briefly about polishing it, I think I prefer that it's well used. It's mine, after all. This isn't someone else's use, this was my own daily music player for years. I think the only thing I'm not prepared to replace is the shell, unless it actually breaks somehow.

Other than that, bring on the iPod of Theseus.

My iPod "restoration" is going well. It's got a brand new, higher capacity battery, and a 64GB CF card for storage. Running Rockbox 4, so it's really easy to manage the contents by dragging files onto it!

I've removed the Bluetooth transmitter for now, I want to pay with a few options and combinations of hardware outside of the actual device for a bit. I have an old iTrip FM transmitter around somewhere that stopped working, and I'm thinking maybe I can get really ambitious and use the accessory connector etc from that and make an external one.

Sounds great as it is though!

A U2 Special Edition iPod in a charging dock, the monochrome screen has now playing info up for Hollywood Baby by 100 gecs

Every so often I'll be watching TV and I'll see an old building in some distant European city, and I'll think I recognise it and for a minute I'll be very confused and wonder why the hell my brain thinks it's been there.

Then I'll remember that I've played a lot of Assassin's Creed games.

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