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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 …] [...]
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. [...]

Chinwag Posts

I miss the days of being able to go to the Whirlpool Forums to find out how widespread an ISP glitch was.

I only know that it hit two of my sites at the same time by chance because I was logged into the exact right things at the exact time it happened, heh.

The family tree site I use reduces names to initials when you zoom out and there's no room. Please meet my great-uncle Charlie. I think we'd all get along.

Family tree section with one name listed as