Category Archives: neep-neep

save my joints

Posted on Monday, 2005 August 15 by Anton

For my sins I’m entering thousands of addresses into a LookOut contacts list, and find that each one takes a surprising number of mouse-clicks. It would go much easier if I could simply type them into a textfile and convert … Continue reading →

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font moan

Posted on Friday, 2005 June 10 by Anton

I moved from Mozilla to Firefox and found that the font menu has changed. I don’t know where each app looks for its fonts; they’re not neatly integrated in Linux as in MacOS. I don’t like any of them as … Continue reading →

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what’s up at Keenspace?

Posted on Saturday, 2005 May 28 by Anton

Most (according to casual sample) of the comic strips hosted at Keenspace have had their archives disappear, in whole or in part, this week; as if Keenspace had been taken over by Blogspot.

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yo-yo

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 April 13 by Anton

Comcast’s DNS has been flaky of late, making me wonder: why doesn’t the browser cache IP addresses?

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remember the Future?

Posted on Monday, 2005 January 31 by Anton

how a “home computer” could look like in the year 2004. I wonder what the big wheel is for.

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a hacker’s tale

Posted on Friday, 2004 December 24 by Anton

I hope this yarn is true: one of my favorite MacOS toys was developed clandestinely. We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security. (Cited by Travis.)

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how soon the inevitable?

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 December 15 by Anton

My One True Ex hears from her mother a rumor of an effort to “put the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress and the British Library on line”, and commands me to ask my Vast Network of Contacts … Continue reading →

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