So, my PowerBook (just recently saved from disfigurement by the fine folks at MBS) being named FireBook, and my recently acquired portable hard drive being named FireWalkWithMe, I decided to create a custom icon for it. With a little help from GIS and IconBuilder, I came up with this quick and dirty Laura Palmer icon….
Category: geek
Comment Spam, new twist
Just in the past few days, I’ve been seeing a new form of comment spam coming through, and making it past my spam filters. Instead of using the words that they know I will probably have on my block list, I instead get a string of HTML codes like: internetcasinos …which ends up giving me…
Spitfire
BCS: Official Website of Buffalo Creek Software1: Going through some old crap in my Den, I came across this manual I had printed out for Spitfire: Bulletin Board System for MS/PC DOS Personal Computers. I set up and ran what was probably an incredibly unpopular BBS for a little while (probably only a few months,…
h2g2 Radio Drama
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is being continued on the BBC radio, starting in September, for the “Tertiary Phase” and in May of next year for the “Quadrenary Phase.” Most of the old radio cast is back, and there’s both a video and audio preview on the BBC’s web page.
AirTunes
I’m curious… if my wireless network is bridged to my “wired” ethernet computers through my wireless router, why can’t my wire-bound Macs play to the AirPort Express in the living room as well? Sure, I can “share” my iTunes music to another Mac that does have an AirPort card in it, and play from there—…
Recipe XML
RCP and RecipeML. Two recipe XML formats enter— only one will leave! Or… maybe neither of them will, considering neither have been updated in forever. Still, keen idea.
Dick van Dyke, Professional CG Artist
Yes, that Dick van Dyke.