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Me-ssa load letter

In film, geek, internet, music on 27 August 2008 tagged office space, star wars with no comments

Check out Fark.com’s best photoshop contest for a while - Star Wars characters in other movies. Probably not dial-up friendly.

Dispatch from Dial-up hell

In geek, internet on 9 August 2008 tagged Dial-up with no comments

I was trying to upgrade OSX when the shit hit the fan. Some big downloads meant I’d teetered over my 10GB cap for the month, and my internet connection, my precious, precious broadband was grounded - back to 56KBps I went. For two weeks. Bloody hell.
Oh well, we survived for years on Dial-up - surely [...]

Links

In film, geek, internet, links, music on 29 July 2008 with no comments

Wired magazine has an oral history of War Games, the film that made me realise Dad’s TRS-80 was capable of more than 10 Print: You are a dick and 20: Goto 10. Possibly. That shit’s *still* really, really funny
Kubrick nitty gritty fans should take an hour to watch this, or the time-poor should read this [...]

Me in other places

In aucklandista, internet, meta on 7 July 2008 with no comments

Here’s what I’ve been up to while neglecting this here blog.
I thundered in on the recent truck protest, and the Auckland International Film Festival on the Aucklandista
Graeme from Sportsfreak kindly published my nostalgic wallowing on the day we beat the Aussies in 1999
I did a couple of awesome (ahem) cartoons on sportreview.net.nz: Calling 101 and [...]

A cynical experiment - LOL!

In internet, new zealand on 11 May 2008 tagged trademe with no comments

I’m fascinated by people that make money from nothing on auction sites - like this guy flogging a Casio Vl-1 ‘possessed by Satan’.
So… a weekend tidy up yielded an innocuous cheese grater - and I decided to write a ‘hard case’ ad on TradeMe, taking full advantage of current hoo-hah over rising food prices. Oh [...]

Del.icio.us - where to-dos go to die

In geek, internet, meta on 23 April 2008 tagged del.icio.us with no comments

I’ve been using Del.icio.us since April 2005, and saved 2200 pages to the site. Recording and tagging my web travels is great, stopping all those wonderful links from slipping into the digital never-never land. Firefox makes link getting really easy, with Apple or Ctrl - click I get a good eight or ten tabs [...]