ISSN 1496-3221
July 18, 2004
Eight years, that is. Eight years since this site went live. Eight years since I first paid Internic for the privilege of having a place to call home on the internet. Eight years of running a web server on a series of archaic, retrofitted Macintosh boxes that along the road somebody else figured weren’t useful … More
July 17, 2004
This masking tape badge of honour was presented to me by my eldest daughter yesterday. She is always commenting that I ‘add serifs to everything’, meaning that I have to constantly fiddle with stuff after it’s handed to me. Like adding ground pepper or salsa to my food. Yesterday, I apparently was ‘adding serifs’ because … More
July 16, 2004
Amidst the aforementioned hardware issues experienced earlier in the week, I actually managed to accomplish quite a few things without access to my usual complement of application preferences, archived email, and customized keyboard shortcuts. It’s funny how much faster a clean, unmodified system runs in comparison to one that has been tweaked and preened and … More
July 13, 2004
At least the hard drive that contained data I had actually backed up still works. The other drive — my boot drive — doesn’t. Applications. Email. Prefs. Several gigabytes worth of current work files scattered all over the blessed desktop. Poof. Reflecting on this incident, I have determined that I feel much more comfortable with … More
July 8, 2004
The available domain name of the week is filterati.com
July 6, 2004
Photocopied image on mailbox. Kensington Road, Calgary.