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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleOn 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...
View ArticleWeekend 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...
View ArticleNote 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,...
View ArticleCoax 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleArchived 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...
View ArticleLegacy 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...
View ArticleMall 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...
View ArticleA 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?...
View ArticleI 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...
View ArticleMy 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,...
View ArticleTrouncing 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...
View ArticleBuild 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....
View ArticleInternet 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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