Monthly Archives: December 2004

Can you imagine having your home washed away by the sea? I can’t. I don’t know what I would do if my house were destroyed. I guess I would try to convince my friends or family to let me stay … Continue reading →

You’ve got Ballmer ranting on about how the market needs a $100 PC. I find this to be terribly laughable since a single OEM copy of Windows XP Home is worth about $90 U.S. — even large vendors like HP … Continue reading →

Looking for more interesting places to go on the net? Check out Toporama from the Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources. Toporama is an online portal for the National Topographic Data Base (NTDB). From this website you can browse and download … Continue reading →

Though I have had lots of time to contemplate it, I am unable to write anything interesting today. My mind is so clouded with Christmas, merriment, visiting relations and turkey supplied Tryptophan that this is best I can do. Happy … Continue reading →

People are always asking me, “where is a cool place to go on the Internet?” So I think I’ll start posting sites I’ve found which seem interesting, whenever I find them. There are lots of cool places to go — … Continue reading →

I’m one year older today. Yay me!

This “documentary” I found linked from /. is well worth a look, even if you’re not a slashhead like me. I’ve often wondered what content aggregation could be like in 2014, especially now that a lot of our media sources … Continue reading →

Anyone who reads Slashdot or uses Bittorrent regularly will have noticed that suprnova.org and torrentbits.org have shut down (or got shut down. . . but that’s a whole other blog, that is). But Kier just pointed out to me that … Continue reading →

One might think there was some kind of conspiracy. Not long after I replaced the poor mobo featured in this entry, the mainboard in my own workstation decided to give up and burn out. Nothing dramatic, it just failed to … Continue reading →

Good stuff, and free to boot! Version 2.0 of The Open CD has been released! The Open CD is a collection of Free Open Source Software for the Windows operating system. It is also an excellent example of the functionality … Continue reading →