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All things old become new again

As I'm perusing various blogs, I'm reminded of two things. BBS, and “Snow Crash”. The first one reminds me of my Commodore PET, and my 300 baud modem. Of course there was FidoNet also operative at the...

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From Queen Ida to JaRule

About 3 years ago I went through a transformation.  I discovered that there was a ton of music that I wanted to listen to.  I never was much for the Napster craze, so I actually went out and bought a...

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On the cut list

Through the closets and shelves downstairs, what do I find?  Selective issues of  Dr. Dobb's Journal, dating as far back as 1993, to 1998.  At some point I think I had a subscription, and I thought I'd...

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Weekend with an 8 year old

Saturday, wake up at the crack of dawn (8:30am).  We'll be meeting up with Val and Kalya at 10am at the central park in Bellevue.  So, of course we need a gourmet breakfast before we go.  That consists...

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Note To Self:

Don't buy big houses.  You'll just fill them up with junk that you'll never see again!You know the drill... I was down in the basement, and I was opening up boxes and...Tonight I threw away an old TV,...

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Coax Capabilities Come to Computer

So,This past weekend, I pushed further ahead with my home office rearrangement project.  Having detreasured the downstairs, and having move my center of computing upstairs, there was just one more...

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The Prince - Presents Positively Passionate Political Platitudes

Niccolo Machiavelli - The PrincePenguin Classics - ISBN 0-14-044752-0I've been reading this of late.  It's interesting.  This Machiavelli guy (1469-1527) is talking about statecraft, and makes many...

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Archived Media Makes Marvelous Movies

I've archived a large number of DVDs to my hard disk.  If you have non-copyrighted material, say weddings and whatnot, on DVD, you can use DVDDecrypter to store the content on your hard disk.  It has...

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Legacy Lags Listlessly Lurching towards the future

What is “legacy data”?  I thought about this because at work we talk about 'legacy data' all the time.  As if the data being stored in the future will be current, and the data stored today is old...

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Mall Marching Marauders Make life Marvelous

It's 9am.  Do you know where your parents are?This morning I dropped Yasmin off at school.  She needed to provide a white cotton t-shirt, and white cotton pants to tie-dye for a play that they are...

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A Sense of Security Certainly Saves Sleep

I was wandering around the other day thinking to myself, how secure are things in my daily life.  How do my expectations of security match the reality?I started with my house.  How secure is my house?...

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I think I know why computers don't work, that is, epistemologically speaking...

As Jimmy Carter used to do, I consult my daughter Yasmin on many an issue of great and deep importance.  The subject this weekend was why computers crash, have bugs, and all that sort of stuff.  I made...

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My Media Muscle Machine Might Make Masculine Movies

I didn't actually watch the whole super bowl.  I watched some of the first half, and walked away as soon as the half time show started to make a phone call.  The call lasted through the half time show,...

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Trouncing Trash Takes Time and Tenacity

During the winter in my neighborhood, the begetation looks pretty baren.  Things become really simple.  Everything but the evergreens, loses it's leaves, dries up, and kinda disappears.  You can see...

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Build or Buy?

That is the question.Be it nobler to pull up your sleeves than to bow to the will of the component provider?So, here's the deal.  This past weekend, Yasmin and I finished the path around the back yard....

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Internet Incents Inactivity In Industry

Right now I'm listening to the local radio station http://www.kuow.org online.  I could just as easily be listening to some Brazilian music from half way down the other end of the planet.  I only have...

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