Ten Years!
As of today I’ve been keeping an on-line journal (which is the same as what the kids call “blogging”) for ten years! You can still read my first entry. Heck, all my old archives are still available....
View ArticleThe State of the Blogophere, 1997
Raise your hand if you remember what the World Wide Web was like in 1997. Here’s what I remember, and what I can dig up with a little research. Certainly my memories may be faulty, but this is my best...
View ArticleJumping Into The Abyss
By 1997 I was on the Web with a home page hosted at my ISP, Fullfeed Madison, in Madison WI. I tinkered with it from time to time, archiving some of my old posts from USENET, and writing the occasional...
View ArticleThe Journey is the Reward
I think you need to be fundamentally egotistical in some way to keep an on-line journal or blog. And I mean keep it; anyone can start a journal – LiveJournal is littered with transient and abandoned...
View ArticleQ&A: How Did You Get Into Software?
(Ganked from Nadyne.) I think I was first exposed to computers by a neighbor of mine when I was about 8 or 9 (so, 1977 or 78) who had somehow piqued my interest with some stories of his programming...
View ArticleMoon Memory
My earliest memory is of the Apollo 11 moon landing, which occurred 40 years ago this week. What’s remarkable about this is that I was barely 6 months old at the time. Yet I remember it with remarkable...
View ArticleWayback Machine: Hurricane Bob
With Hurricane Sandy currently bearing down on the eastern seaboard, I thought I’d write about my memories of the last hurricane I experienced: Hurricane Bob in 1991. A little trip in the WABAC...
View ArticleTwenty Years!
How appropriate given my relative quiet here that I missed my 20th anniversary of starting my web journal (which was yesterday). Since I still haven’t gotten around to importing my old entries into...
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Twenty Years
Today is my 20-year anniversary of working at Apple. Where does the time go? I went back and read the entry I wrote about moving to California and starting work at Apple, and it’s, uh, a little...
View ArticleMemory Lane: Hurricanes
Last week Hurricane Ida slammed the Louisiana gulf coast, New Orleans, several other southern states, and then the eastern seaboard, damaging infrastructure, flooding New York City, and killing...
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Memory Lane: Audio Equipment
Earlier this year I finally got rid of something I’d owned for over 30 years, an Aiwa AD-WX808 dual cassette deck. Growing up my parents – well, really my dad – had a component stereo system with a...
View ArticleDr. Marvin Morillo
This is Teacher Appreciation Week, with National Teacher Day being tomorrow, so I figured it’s time to finish this entry about a teacher of mine who’s been on my mind recently. I wasn’t a very good...
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My Walkman
Being Generation X, I’ve owned music and video on a lot of media formats, and owned a lot of playback equipment. Sometimes I think of writing a post about my opinions on various media formats...
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