Digging through file archives of my websites of yore tonight. I’ve been keeping websites for most of the duration since 1997. Mixed among the archives are all the journals, side projects, one-off experiments, and futuristic snazzy things that I loved to do. Good times. It surprises me just how many of these hardcoded pages are …
Category Archives: Technology
C Tape
Currently working up a project that I’ve finally gained some momentum on. A year ago I set out to learn C, and my rationale for doing so was to write a program that could take all these computer tapes I have from the various computers I had in the late 80’s and decode their audio …
Goodbye Evolution
I have a confession. I’ve stopped believing in Evolution. I don’t know how it happened, but it slowly evolved (or devolved) into one shitpile of an email/calendar/groupware application. The latest version packaged with Ubuntu is slower and buggier than ever. It will occasionally crash while using it (some of the controls in the configuration panel …
Rocks and Hard Times
I feel it necessary to mention it here, for the sake of those of you who don’t regularly see me in my everyday life, that my job is at risk of not existing by the end of this week. For those who may not know, I work at AMD, have been there over 5 1/2 …
For the Schwinn
Hacking a computer is a lot like riding a bicycle. Let’s say, for instance, that you give a kid a 10-speed bike. If the kid’s stupid, he’ll hop on and try pedaling like they do on TV. He might fall off because he doesn’t know how to ride it. Eventually, he gets the hang of …