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Technical Debt /ˈtɛknɪk(ə)l dɛt/ noun The result of poor and uninformed decisions, typically within a project. but we need to go live two days ago! synonyms: Design Debt, Code Debt antonyms: Happy, Pleased, Content Normal Debt # Like any kind of debt, you assume it for a particular reason. Maybe you can’t afford to buy that car outright, but you’ll be able to afford it over a period of time; so you take on debt, buy the car, and you pay it back over a period of a few months.

Cancon is coming - good time to start planning. Who’s in, who’s not, and where are we staying? This year it turns out the Canberra Carotel Motel destroyed our beloved living quarters for some reason. This was super disappointing as where we usually went was absolutely perfect for Cancon. It was the right distance from the venue, it was isolated enough so we could be loud into the early morning without disrupting others, it had a massive fridge to hold everything, and it had two giant tables which could comfortably fit two or three large games.

No matter how well you plan for something, you will inevitably have something go wrong that simply couldn’t be catered for. One day you will find yourself dealing with an unplanned outage. Drawing from your bag of holding, you resolve the problem but now you have to provide answers to The Business - and it’s not happy.

Red, Hideki, and Spike quickly realised there wasn’t much hope. Thriving within the subterranean planet was almost certainly futile. Water, warmth, food, and oxygen were practically non-existent. The initial survey determined they were inside The Death Planet. How and why they were there was anyone’s guess. The first Duplicant would be printed in a few cycles.

Cancon? Yes. Not long after that, we descended upon Canberra for Round Two of the epic event known simply as Cancon. This time around was a little bit different than last time, but it was just as excellent. We had a slightly different group of people, and I didn’t participate in any tournaments.