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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 never drive into work, as a rule. Tomorrow I need to, because I'm going to need to get some stuff into my car from the office before Wednesday morning.

This post is me attempting to reinforce the knowledge that I need to drive to work tomorrow because I know there's a non-zero chance of this fact not surfacing in my brain until I'm already on a train.

Went to collect a parcel that was allegedly waiting for collection at the post office and they can't find it.

Good thing we're not rapidly running out of year and I don't mind making a couple of side trips for no reason each day- oh wait shit