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Commodore 64 music lives forever

2010-02-02

archivism, Commodore 64, music, my writing, oldschool, writing

All information should be free from restriction and immortal, and this applies to music; the one thing which any everyday person is most enthusiastic about. We want to find and share it. But most importantly, we want to keep it alive .

Imagine finding your favourite artist and your favourite song. Then imagine it being lost, unavailable.. forever. The song itself may become a vague memory in time, but there will always be that sadness in you. With regular software or other media there is the occasional archivist who will collect and catalog things.

With music, everyone becomes an archivist .

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Forum vs Mailing List; Why some developers have a strong preference

2010-02-01

internet, my writing, Usability, writing

There are two things I want to talk about. One is the underlying technology and the other is the user.

While there are tools which bridge the gap between the mailing list and the forum, I still haven’t found them in common use. I’m going to set aside that line of discussion in this post and go after the everyday usage of the two tools.

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SSD – Breathes new life into an old computer

2010-01-30

hardware, my writing, personal, quiet computing, reviews, storage, todo, Usability, writing

OCZ Agility SSD

Hardware > Storage >

An SSD is a spectacular speed improvement.

2013-12 – The drive suddenly locked up and no system will detect it. OCZ is out of business too.
2015-10 – I didn’t mention this, but I believe the problem was due to a half-inserted power cable. The hard drive was sortof dangling around, stuffed into a corner of my case because I was too cheap to buy a bracket for it. My bad. =( Also, it appears that Toshiba has bought OCZ.

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YouTube DMCA abuses, my sarcastic post

2010-01-01

comedy entertainment, my writing, writing, YouTube

YouTube >

Added here so there’s a copy out of Google’s control..

2014-07-26 the issue was deleted.

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The Deceptive Arrows

2009-10-29

Dungeons and Dragons, intelligence, Japanese, martial arts, martial arts stories, OniBushi, roleplaying, samurai entertainment, writing

Writing > samurai >

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How the hell do I organize a 10+ year old TODO list?

2009-08-30

dead, my writing, personal, projects, Questions / Wanted, time management, writing

Update: Five Things is meant to help with this sort of thing.

So at some point you migrate from little scraps of paper to sheets of paper.

Then you migrate to notes in your computer.
Then you migrate to a documentation system.
Then you migrate back to notes in your computer.
Then you migrate to one big note.
Then you categorize your notes.
Then you review and prioritize your notes.

All the while, your notes have been gathering strength, preparing to assault your free time.

You open the flood gates .. and .. nothing happens. The very notion of a list is intimidating, and actually “doing” anything is based on inspiration. Priorities have shifted around so much over the years that looking at the list just gives a lot of “yeah, that ought to get done one of these days” instead of the burning-hot passion there used to be.

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Creating a markup language isn’t so hard after all

2009-08-25

compiled website, documentation, hacking, my writing, programming, Questions / Wanted, todo, writing

One of the things that’s been a real killer for me using most wikis has been the syntax. None of them get it right.

MediaWiki has been bearable, and over time I’ve grown used to it. The problem is that nobody agrees on a remotely similar syntax. There were some early efforts to create a generally agreed-upon syntax, and it did fairly well.. but it’s still not used everywhere.

I’m not just talking about wikis, but about markup languages in general. Even something like Ruby’s RDoc decided on its own syntax.

And they’re all wrong. Seriously, who thinks that __this is italicized__ ?

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Why aren’t old games fun? [PROTIP: They are]

2009-08-25

entertainment, my writing, oldschool, oldschool Linux, writing

Since comments on other peoples’ blogs become stranded, I kept a copy.

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Why doesn’t software multitask?

2009-08-24

Claws Mail, Firefox, glances, my writing, software, time management, Usability, writing

I strongly appreciate a single-application single-tasking environment, because it forces you into a totally different mindset from the flurry of activity and noise one always has on an everyday “multitasking” computing environment these days. But since most of my day is spent completely surrounded by multiple applications all vying for my attention, I’ve come to expect to be able to swap my attention around whenever I want.

But there are situations and applications which explicitly deny multitasking.

Seriously.

I’ve put in my 10,000 hours

2009-08-23

documentation, my writing, programming, writing

Update: I’ve put in my 10,000 hours – update

Lately I’ve been reviewing my skills and interests, and sketching out what I’m interested in learning and accomplishing.

Malcolm Gladwell was on The Hour, and he talked about his “10,000-Hour Rule” from his book Outliers.

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Commodore 64 music lives forever

Forum vs Mailing List; Why some developers have a strong preference

SSD – Breathes new life into an old computer

YouTube DMCA abuses, my sarcastic post

The Deceptive Arrows

How the hell do I organize a 10+ year old TODO list?

Creating a markup language isn’t so hard after all

Why aren’t old games fun? [PROTIP: They are]

Why doesn’t software multitask?

I’ve put in my 10,000 hours

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