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Lego-loving Jon Honeyball harks back to the old days when things made sense

I can stop any time I like. It’s under control. It’s not running my life. While it would hopefully surprise you were I to admit to a serious drugs habit, I confess my particular poison is Lego.

I only got into Lego a few years ago. I never grew up on it, being more fascinated by how computers and networks worked. Sometimes this was frustrating: anyone who wrote programs for Windows 2 using the SDK and C compiler will remember the masochistic pleasure of writing your own WinMain() handler book by Petzold. Then came the GUI programming languages from Borland and Microsoft’s own Visual Basic. Suddenly the building block approach to creating solutions made sense.

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