Station in the Metro

  • 1997 Apple Ads

    Scanned in a few old Apple ads today, in the process of cleaning out my den, so I could get rid of the paper versions (paper is the bane of my cluttered existence), so I thought I’d post them here for all to enjoy. Especially interesting are the Mac OS Reports, laying the early groundwork […]

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  • Starship Titanic

    Being on sort of a Douglas Adams kick lately (the h2g2 movie teaser just came out, and we listened to the first six episodes of the h2g2 radio drama on our trip this weekend) and browsing through some crap I had laying about that I’m determined to look at one last time before I throw it away… I ran across a web postcard from the orignal Starship Titanic website. Thought the main site (which used to hold information about the Statship Titanic and Starlight Travel as if they were real entities) seems to have been reduced to just a splash page, some of the content still does seem to be active in the game subdirectory. Nice to see it hasn’t died completely, even if the web poscards are no longer there.

  • Amazon Book Replacement

    For the first time, two weeks ago, I received a book from Amazon that was defective. The last few pages were bound into the book crooked, and lower then they should have been, resulting in the tops of the pages still retaining the fold from the press, and since they weren’t trimmed, they were still […]

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  • All access IP addresses appear as my own

    A question for the LazyWeb:

    This is probably something pretty stupid, and likely stems from the fact that I’m not yet that experienced in Unix administration, but…

    For whatever reason, when I get an email from my Wordpress blog install to approve (or more likely disapprove and delete) a new comment that might be […]

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