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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

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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 …] [...]

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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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@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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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

55% restored, I might go take the bins out instead of watching the progress bar.

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL] · 26 minutes ago

26 minutes ago

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Woohoo - I messed up a thing! Doing a bit of maintenance on The Blower that was supposed to be quick, I got some changes wrong and ended up with a week-old copy of the main database going live for 5 minutes before I realised what was up.

I have multiple layers of backups here, but I've never really had to use them outside of testing before.

Worst case is only rolling back to the overnight snapshot of the database server from around 3am, but I hope to do a lot better than that.

#SysadminLife