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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 have used my mobile Myki over a dozen times since they emailed me to tell me it will automatically renew if I use it before it expires.

I got another email today telling me it's expiring soon and I should use it before it does, which will automatically renew my Myki. A Myki which, fundamentally, does not exist as anything other than an entry in a database.

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My train came to an abrupt halt just before the Munnel and apparently this is due to "a trespasser in the Footscray area".

Just saw a couple of people in high vis jogging towards South Kensington.

What a time to be alive!

Update: we have resumed our Munneling!