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Okay, so not really anything to do with a misspent youth, but if the Internet Wayback Machine had been around when I was a kid, I’d be dredging up bad poetry and long, long rants about how unfair the world was instead of bits and pieces of my old web site.But even so, looking back … Read more
I’m kinda actually enjoying the SciFi channel now and then. Since I have a reliable way to see TV listings, I can deftly avoid accidentally tuning into Stargate – it used to be “all Stargate, all the time”, and I just can’t watch that show. It’s a shame… I liked the movie. Dead Like Me … Read more
The Haven Girl brochure I did last week got printed up and we got them back yesterday (you can see the first page below). The printers finally used the Haven Girl logo font I specified instead of whichever one was their favorite that day. Came out pretty well. I tried to use more color. Have … Read more
I love free and open source software (FOSS) — I really do. Out of more than twenty years of programming, the only software of mine still out in the wild was some open source stuff I wrote back in the late 80s. All the stuff I wrote for pay was locked away by my employers, … Read more
Today, regular correspondent and composer Ludwig von Beethoven answers your questions about his famous Ninth Symphony. When and where did you premiere your ninth symphony? We held the first performance on the seventh of May, 1824, at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. I wasn’t sure it would be well received in Vienna – the whole city … Read more