Author: rihahn
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Cellphone
Prior to my first cellphone I had a pager… In the early 90’s everyone had a pager as it was far less expensive than a cellphone both in cost and…
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eBay, part the third
Back on March 23rd I mentioned that I’d sold a few things on eBay, and that one of the items was a rather high-end motherboard. Then on April 3rd the…
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Where the Internet Began
I got a few questions about the Before Times from my post yesterday – mostly asking about how the Internet finally materialized out of government funding and corporate phone companies……
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Online
Believe it or not, there was a time before the Internet… It was a time simply known as “online”, where systems weren’t as interconnected as they are today and tended…
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G4
Purely for the entertainment value, today I’m installing weird operating systems on my 17-inch 1.33Ghz PowerBook G4. I briefly had MorphOS, the AmigaOS-alike offering, installed. I installed MorphOS via the…
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RTFM
Last evening I got a note from ebay stating that the buyer of the motherboard I recently sold wants a refund because it doesn’t work… The note the buyer included…
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Lift
Some excitement this morning; the elevator at my office failed – while I was in it. I got in, pressed three, the doors closed and the elevator got to about…
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Processing
Yesterday I decided to put the new laptop through its paces with some complicated video work – just to see how well it performed. I have a couple of collector’s…
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Drive
Having nothing better to do, and being tired of staring at the walls, today I decided to move some funds around and go for a drive… The route was simple;…
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Breakfast
This morning’s breakfast is “Le Peep”; there’s one just south of my place on Parker road, but I’ve not eaten there until this morning. I think the last time I…
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Sign of the Times
I’ve taken to topping off the gas tank in the car every week just because it feels less expensive to spend smaller amounts more often… I know it’s not, but…
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For sale
Well, I’ve had my first encounter with selling something on ebay. For the most part, it’s pretty painless… I wanted to sell an old motherboard and my old Cintiq tablet…
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Computers
The casual observer of ye olde blog here might have noticed that I’m kinda into this computer thing… I mean, I’ve been doing computery stuff since the late 70’s after…
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Collectables
Over the years I’ve collected a great many things, and most of them involve my various stories in writing and roleplay and tend to be artwork of various settings and…
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Weather
It’s a pretty typical March outside… Under that snow is probably a half of an inch of ice as it rained for a few hours last evening before getting below…
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Radio
For most of my childhood – so the 70’s and early 80’s – radio was a kid’s social media. If you wanted to know what the new fad was, the…
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Hello world!
Ye olde website has moved servers once again. The long and short of it is I found I could get three years of hosting at GoDaddy for a bit less…
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Changing of the guard…
For some time now I’ve been plotting a method of extricating the thousand or so entries I have here on Livejournal, images and all, and hosting it all State-side. Now,…
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Sensational!
I don’t do “news”, so it can often appear that I either live under a rock or that I’m emotionally detached — because I’m not in a panic over whatever…
