Category Archives: Internet

USENET archeology

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Russell

Via Chuq von Rospach: What is your earliest USENET post on Google Groups? Mine dates to October 17, 1983 and was posted to net.sport.baseball [sic]. Boy, am I old or what. Unrelated note: I’ve never met Chuq, but based on … Continue reading →

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Nonsense up with which I shall not put

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Russell

I understand that some media companies feel the need to monetize their value propositions (to misquote the inestimable Merlin Mann), but isn’t this taking things a bit far? Yes, that’s right: after exactly one sentence of the story, a full-column … Continue reading →

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Bandwagon and DreamHost

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Russell

So now Bandwagon and DreamHost are co-operating on a promotion: DreamHost members get a year of Bandwagon, and vice versa. Well, I haven’t had a chance to set up my Bandwagon account yet — and, as has been pointed out, … Continue reading →

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Ride the Bandwagon

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Russell

Bandwagon launches tomorrow; it purports to back up your entire iTunes library over the Internet to their servers (or alternatively to your Amazon S3 box) for a flat rate. Updates occur automatically in the background. Sounds like a good idea, … Continue reading →

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The O'Grady Factor

Posted on June 22, 2006 by Russell

Item on The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Apple Genius says: Moo’ing normal. Same item as quoted on Powerpage: Apple: It’s Normal for MacBooks to Moo. Now I’m not a professional journalist, but even I can tell the difference between one offhand … Continue reading →

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Hey, where've you been?

Posted on February 17, 2005 by Russell

Well, I’ve been really busy, is all. How do you people find time to post every day? I’ve got a wife and a kid (make that two kids now, which is obviously a large part of the issue), a job, … Continue reading →

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Prehistoric links fixed

Posted on December 2, 2004 by Russell

To the fraction of a person who cares: the one page on the Internet that links to my pre-MT blog is now correctly redirected to the equivalent items in the MT blog. (Originally, I used a Redirect directive instead of … Continue reading →

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