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Ramblings about cats, games and miscellanea.

Happy Easter!

Modern life is a bit lame, really, when you think about it.

We're meant to roam the forests and fields, stabbing things and eating them; when we're not hunting or sleeping, nature intended for us to be punching each other for the right to mate with our womenfolk and propagate the most awesome DNA around.

Instead, the majority of the world now sits in chairs in large concrete boxes, pushing bits of paper around and tapping away on little bits of plastic, making silly lights dance around on a glass box. Hunting consists of staggering out of the ...

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My mind has been infected

I'd hoped that dropping a few references to it in my last post would help exorcise the song that's going round and round in my head, but it just won't stop. I woke up yesterday morning humming the "Still Alive" song from the Portal credits, literally humming it before my mind had figured out where I was. That's not normal. I haven't played the game for over a year, but I still spent all morning humming it; I tried listening to it on a loop for a few hours to try to make my mind ...

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We do what we must because we can

Yes, I'm still alive, just very busy with lots of exciting worky things, including my CMS. Yes, that one. And although this will be something like the 5th version that will make it into production, it will be the first version I'll release under an open source license. At last.

The irony is that although my feature list grows and my available time shrinks, with the server-side and client-side frameworks and tools that have been released over the past few years, it has actually become a lot easier to accomplish what I want. But with so much already ...

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