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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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I am currently deeply engaged with cleaning up an organisation's historic DNS records and I welcome the many challenges of the role.

What could possibly go wrong?

The final piece has arrived, so I'll be opening up the Bluetooth iPod for the last (hahah) time soon. I'll document the whole thing then.

I do have some ideas for taking it a bit further but I'll need some time to hack away at things and I don't know when that's likely to happen.

A red and black U2 Special Edition iPod with a 64GB compact flash card sitting on top of it.