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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 …] [...]

Chinwag Posts

I just got a wrong number call but instead of a scammer it was someone asking me to call back to book in my MRI. They immediately called again to say it was a mistake and to disregard but now I feel like I should get one anyway.

If I were the all powerful Emperor of the Galactic Empire, my first decree would be to mandate the immediate adoption of IPv6 for droid names because there is clearly not enough scope in the current addressing scheme, even using alphanumeric combinations.

I mean come on guys, do you know how many R2s there are just on this one space station? More than 1,296, I can assure you, and we find another one in a corner every time we tractor in a random cargo ship for "inspection". Don't get me started on the new BB series. How am I supposed to keep an accurate inventory of those?

This is making us look like absolute fools.

Make yourself immune to future security breaches by simply giving up having any personal information. I personally have not generated any data since 2016.