Bad Code Offsets
Here’s a useful idea; Bad Code Offsets. They basically work just like carbon offsets, but for bad code. Just like carbon offsets, they’re designed to expose external costs to the correcting forces of the...
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The Caterwaulers Have A Reverb Nation Page
I have been designated the band’s web manager, and I set up an artist page for The Caterwaulers on Reverb Nation. We now have an embedable music player with all of our music thus...
Leonard Nimoy Day
Today was Leonard Nimoy day in Boston today. Nimoy grew up in Boston and he’s back in town this weekend, so Mayor Menino issued a proclamation. To celebrate, we watched an old Star Trek...
LHS GWAC Band Night
I performed at Band Night on Friday the 13th as part of the band I am in, The Caterwaulers.We performed 3 songs, 2 original and 1 cover. The order was “Firedancer” (Original), “Love In...
Cookie and XFish
When I blogged about Multics yesterday, I forgot to mention my favorite Multics program. Cookie was a program that you use to use to hack someone’s account when they left a terminal logged in....
Lego Car Crash
Will and I made another stop motion yesterday. This stop motion was made out of Legos. It is a video of a car crash. This is the video Lego Crash from Garrity Family on...
Multics Turns 40
Multics, one of my favorite operating systems recently turned 40. I first encountered it in ‘76 on the big machine at MIT. It was quite a revelation at the time. The other systems I...
Marine Traffic
As Melville wrote: Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth ; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul ; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and...
