A “good” joke can be reintroduced every four years and still be satirical … Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well-known incident that many [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Alien Thinking
Jan 19
FiOS
Jan 16
My Internet-TV-Phone are now all switched over from a mix of analog/digital copper to fiber optics. What can I say about it that has not already been said before by oh so many others? Wow. The switchover of our analog phone line to digital was totally seamless, including testing our home alarm system. The only [...]
Comeback?
Jan 10
Consider this fickle Boston and pink hat wearing fans: the stock you put into Tommy’s comeback has fallen short today. Again. And fickle is the appropriate word, because you-know-who-you-are have repeatedly (but cautiously) used how the (almost) Team of the Decade are winners, because they play as a team. You boast loudly how there are [...]
OpenCBM
Jan 3
With it freezing and snowing today, I decided to make use of the idle time by hooking up my pristine VIC-1541 floppy disk drive to my workstation and do some file archiving to real 5-1/4″ media using OpenCBM under Linux. OpenCBM provides an API library and some useful command-line tools. The following is an example [...]
