'lo. I pop in every few months but I've just added Teh to my startup tabs in Chrome, so will be here a lot more now. Been busy, got married, had a daughter (that hurt), lots of adulting, work etc. Glad to see so many familiar usernames.
As everyone else is meandering down Memory Lane... I joined the PCF Forum after installing Steve Guntrip's Doorz 3000 explorer.exe-replacement shell from the cover-disc and wanted to find out more. Or maybe wanted to change it back, I forget. It was very yellow.
I think I earned 5 dragon points when that was a thing. They were a lot harder to redeem for goods and services than the tremendous artwork would lead you to believe.
I met Xenophon once, like IRL, he made excellent tea, and we discussed why mint was considered to be a fresh smell. We eventually mooted the concept of bacon-flavoured toothpaste.
A bit of a dust and a vacuum and Teh will be good as new.
Congrats on the offspring, the missus and I were following William's surgeries on Facebook practically in tears. The phrase "you won't know until you're a parent" really is a truism.
Looks like you're driving the old paraffin budgies now too. You should start a thread about that! #MoarThreads
Hallo. I'm still here, too. I just don't have much to say, and I know fuck all about electronics and Raspberry Pis and such, which is what a lot of the chat seems to be about.
Anyway, still doing stuff. Living in sunny/windy/rainy Auckland in New Zealand. Fixing networks by day, and generally doing that by night too (God damn those out-of-hours jobs). Weekends generally involve bemoaning the lack of whitewater within a four hour drive, and having to make do with sea kayakking or climbing a local volcano instead.
I met Xen, too, at least once. Lovely chap, he was. Right up until I refused a cup of tea. That was awkward.
Fixing networks in that kind of environment sounds like something even I could do.
On the other hand, if I were to do that then your competition in NZ would increase by, what, 200%? :-&
I'm still checking in occasionally, when I remember.
Still doing web-development and devops for Rebellion (Sniper Elite) / 2000 AD (Judge Dredd). Got married in July last year in New York (fuck me, NYC is hot in July), to a native New Yorker no-less. Not sure how I convinced her to not only marry me, but to move to the UK and live in Banbury, but I did!
Also, I actually committed some code to Beehive's Github repository recently. No, really.
I still occasionally have day dreams about rewriting Beehive using some decent frameworks (i.e. Laravel and Angular), but then I remember how much functionality Beehive has and how long it took to get it this far and I decide that's a stupid idea.
I also got married a couple of years back, which was fun! Just bought a house too up here in Scotland, we're supposed to get the keys on 11th May, so some busy weeks coming up. Got the man-cave allocated already, which is the main part.
Yep, being a teenager at college whilst part of the original PCFF seems like such a long time ago...
