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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]

Free chairs, anyone? I have two matched dining chairs and a small pink IKEA office chair that are surplus to requirements here.

Before they go into storage, if anyone wants to come to the western suburbs of Melbourne and pick them up, they're yours.

The dining chairs are perfectly solid and stable but have lived in a household with cats all their lives so have some light scratches, and if you've got allergies to cat fur they've definitely got some in the folds despite vacuuming.

A pink IKEA office chair next to a velvety textured dining chair, which is beside an identical twin of itself that's obscured by boxes.
Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Wow, I left a complimentary 4-star review for the Symfonium music player app yesterday, because their app was a rare gem in that space that actually respected my light-theme UI settings. I mentioned that their forum was dark-only, however, so I didn't leave any feedback thanking them there.

I woke up this morning to find a reply ... framed as me "removing" a star because of the forum theme, and giving me a link to support information *on the forum that I mentioned as being inaccessible to me*.

I thought 4 stars was good.

🙃

Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

I love that Cloudflare periodically provides us with examples to convey to the youngsters what it felt like when you were in the middle of chatting to your friends online in the 1990s, and someone picked up the phone.