The Commodore 64 changed my life in a million subtle ways and frankly if I started going into detail about some of the things that might be different in the world now if I’d owned a Spectrum or a TRS-80 or something you’d be amazed.
What happens when you check back on the site of a great artistic triumph after 21 years have passed? Maybe you’ll find out you changed the world.
In 2002, I received “The Worst Present Ever”, and turned it into an epic saga.
I attempted to walk to the southernmost point of the Australian mainland. Spoiler warning: I made it there and back again.
About ten years ago, I decided to visit as many of the extreme points of Australia for the hell of it. September 4th 2017 is the date that I finally made it to one.
I don’t update my personal blog much these days, do I? I keep posting everywhere else but here, it’s not that nothing ever actually happens to me. I got interviewed on SYN last week about how I came to end up running Mad Dog Comedy and a bunch of other stuff though. Here’s that!
I just came across a post titled In search of XMPP perfection while researching some stuff, and it’s a pretty solid set of words that gels with my own feelings about the state of the XMPP network. You should go and read it if you’re interested in the topic of XMPP services, and if you’re following my blog I sincerely hope you are, or you’re going to get really bored.
I’m going to draw a line under the ChinWag development blog at this point and say “phase one complete”. I have a working XMPP server, it’s cost very little money, it’s got a nice-looking site and a web chat client or two for ease of use for users if they can’t install software.
It’s a long way from ready, but it’s nice to see the project really starting to take shape. More development posts to come, of course. Amazing what you can do these days with just a handful of free stock photography, an off-the-shelf theme and a quiet evening at home. Yes, I know the text is hard … [Read more …]
Installing Jappix on our little baby XMPP server is a very quick win in a lot of ways. In one hit we get a web-based front end to registration so we can eventually disable/redirect In-Band Registration if we want, we get a basic web presence we can refer people to, and we get a known-working XMPP client to refer end-users with difficulties to for sanity checking.