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Mezzacotta

It has been somewhat remiss of me to not mention Mezzacotta until now. It’s a project that the lunchtime gang have been working on for the last four months, after deciding that we really have too many half-baked ideas not to be sharing them all.

So, Mezzacotta will be collecting all of these crazy schemes. The webcomic up there is the first of them, and it uses my favorite web technology: SVG. The work on the webcomic was mostly Mr McLeish and Mr Morgan-Mar, so I think I can be free to say that it really looks fantastic. Not only the comic, but the whole experience is well designed.

Also, it has a truly amazing archive.

…okay, NOW it’s dead.

Yes, the faithful speed racer, a.k.a. Derek, is dead. I was driving it home last night and the engine started to overheat. When I (slowly) got it to the mechanic this morning, they discovered the coolant pump had failed at some point (probably because of the plugs problem earlier) and the engine had fried.

My extreme reluctance to spend any more money on this thing combined with the fact that repair would mean taking the engine out, means that I’ve called it: the car is kaput.