Yesterday I took one of my Mac mini’s (Lion, for those curious) to work again so I could do a bit of a deep clean on it. Something was rattling around in it and I didn’t want to turn it back on (it’s been out of use since the Spring) without getting whatever it was […]
The PlayStation 5 is big. Very big. Beyond it’s early 2000’s internet gateway look (seriously, it does look like an unused piece of networking kit that’s sitting in my closet right now) the overall size of the machine is pretty massive, especially when you compare it to the predecessor, the PlayStation 4. It also looks […]
If you’re a gamer you’ve no doubt heard that soon after the launch of the new Xbox Consoles, the Series X and the Series S, problems were reported primarily with the optical drive of the Series X but also, in at least one case I saw on twitter, the fan of the Series S. Naturally, […]
Guess who just found out they have email’s dating back 15 years? Yeah, me. I took some of the little free time I’ve had in the past few days to clean out all of my email archives. I’ve been letting things build up for too long, and am wanting now to take a pro-active role […]
Ya know that podcast project I keep bringing back, doing a few episodes of, and then suddenly not working on again? Well, we’re at that cycle where I’ve all but given up on it again. It’s been that way for a while, but I’m only now writing about it. Watercress and I recorded a whole […]
It’s a question that most anyone who at least has a cursory knowledge of the subject will inevitably ask, in some form, when the topic if brought up of running an old fashioned Bulletin Board System in 2020 — why? Why would you spend the time and energy for something so primitive; a concept of […]
File this as another one of those “yeah I haven’t written anything in a while” entries. Yeah, it’s been a week since I last published anything here, but let’s be serious — it’s been, as the title suggests, one hell of a week. Last Tuesday was election day here in the United States and while […]
In the past few months, along with my growing interest in the pre-world-wide-web internet and, before that, bulletin board systems I’ve also have a very related interest in the telephone system of yesteryear. At the time, it was in some ways the largest machine ever made by humanity and when you really get into just […]
Last night I spent several hours working on a bit of a code project. The idea was to create a custom RSS feed of posts from Xadara which would import into my Bulletin Board System, Final Zone. It was a solid enough idea, but something I knew, with my relatively amateur coding skills, would be […]
Today the United States Department of Justice and 11 states (Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Montana) filed an antitrust suit against Google, with the focus being it’s domination of the internet search market. I’ve been saying for years Google has been ,quite simply, a monopoly. They have their hands far to […]
Here we have another one of those more odd episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd where instead of focusing on one particular game, he spends time discussing a whole category of games which follow a similar theme – in this case, sports games on the Atari 2600! While certainly not mine, or the Nerds […]
Space Invaders was released in 1980 for the Atari 2600 (then Atari VCS) game system. It has the distinction of being the first arcade game to the officially licensed for any home game console, and would become the first “killer app” for the Atari 2600 – people would buy the console specially to play Space […]
2020 has been a hell of a year for pretty much everyone on Earth. As is obvious I’ve even stepped away quite a bit from this website and many related projects (although my work in the BBS scene took over, so it wasn’t time wasted) and this has caused obvious delays in, well, everything. I’ve […]
Welcome to Arlen, Texas. A perfectly average town with perfectly average people living perfectly average lives. In this case our story focuses primarily on Hank Hill and his family and friends. Following a quick introduction to Hank and his friends Dale Gribble, Bill Dauterive, and Jeff Boomhauer, we get to the focus of this first […]
For those not in the know, the MMO FPS Destiny 2 is going through what amounts to a massive reset come November 10th with the release of the Beyond Light expansion. In very basic form, much of what currently makes up Destiny 2, some of which has been there since the beginning, is going to […]