2012-06-28 (Thursday)

@secretbean I tried making a Halo Jones Makie, but didn't like it enough to actually buy one: makie.me/makie/MAHWLAD2/

@secretbean There's a nice combination of the usual quiet computing, plus sewing machines. They're a lovely bunch.

@secretbean I share an office with them!

Bright side: My very re-worked code seems to re-work. Slightly gloomier side: Nose is showing signs of a cold. Grrr.

@revdancatt Hmmm. Maybe it’s just the heat. Things do swell in the heat.

My things are too wide, and positioned too far away, for my web browser to cope with them. Silly browser. Back to the drawing board.

@simonw Also, pre-dating that, Candle Power Forums: bit.ly/MXiJUN (141k members, 6k active)

@Betsy_Trotwood Here’s your answer re @samuelpepys: bit.ly/rBTKBL

I don’t know how I managed to get any code written before Stack Overflow existed. I guess I referred to those, er, papery things. Boks?

Emails keep arriving about online services closing down. I can never remember what the services were for.