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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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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

The positive thing here, for people like me who don't have to deal with this often, is that nowadays I can just walk into a nearby chemist and get an inhaler for less than $10. This is extremely good.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Once every few years or so, I actually develop asthma symptoms despite usually having no sign of it. Some combination of weather and allergens sets me off and I have no idea why.

The 2016 thunderstorm asthma surge in Melbourne? Didn't get me at all, I was oblivious.

The upshot of this, anyway, is that when it happens I usually spend a day or so going "geez I feel a bit crap for no reason at all" before I realise. Yesterday I did a Covid test, convinced that was what was up. Shockingly, it was negative.

I'm treating it correctly now. I feel better already. I should leave a note to myself somewhere for 2029 or whenever ... 🙃

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Because the universe punishes hubris, immediately after I called myself "highly experienced" I realised I keep running out of space on my backup server because I forgot to add two whole drives into the disk array. They've just been sitting there in the drive bays rent-free for months.