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August 3, 2001
It’s the end of the world as we know it. I just bought a thousand foot spool of Cat 5e Gigabit-ready Ethernet cable and a variable-impact punchdown tool at Home Depot. They had a bin full of 8-port hubs as well. What could possibly be next? Do it yourself fibre-optic backbone?
August 3, 2001
Here’s a piece spam that I received today. What surprised me about it was the way that it sounded more like a weblog confession or a keynote address at an internet conference than the sales pitch it really is. Fascinating. Why I have habitually send Spam email. The big dogs Spam, Sears, BMG Music’s and many … More
August 2, 2001
On a related note. System 6 Heaven. Via Woz
August 2, 2001
Due to a lucky find on one of the discarded item tables at the local public library, I have been reading Robert X. Cringley’s 1992 book Accidental Empires. It’s a bluntly opinionated, painfully true, and oh-my-spleen-hurts funny account of how the whole computer industry schtick took off like it had firecrackers in its pants back … More
August 2, 2001
Ooh, look. Old bitmap fonts. But not just any old bitmap fonts. These have been hand-tweaked bit by niggly bit “back when a pixel was worth something” by designer, illustrator, and all around good egg, Mark Simonson. Just recently, Mark decided to release all of these fonts into the public domain, which conveniently opens them … More
August 1, 2001
It’s been nearly 90 sleeps since my last official day as a dumbfounded employee of these jokers. As it so happens, Friday is the deadline for exercising the last straggling chunks of my once valuable stock options. Of course the stock price is scraping its belly near its 52 week low at the moment, which … More