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old email

Posted in geek, history, life on June 30th, 2005 by larcher – Be the first to comment

Wow .. I just found a bunch of old backup files with emails from 1996 ! That’s like .. *counting* .. about 6 computers and 10 email addresses ago. Now I just need some scripts that will convert messages from Eudora and Juno (juno.com! when all they did was free dialup email!) into some nice normal unix mail format.

I was a big dork in 1996. ;-)

a sample:

Hey. howzit goin?
Would like to win a laptop? I found this contest on the web where you have to solve all these puzzles and when you finish, you get yourself entered into a drawing for a pentium 75 laptop with a 28.8 PCMCIA modem.. here’s the URL

A modem — how quaint! 28.8 kbps no less!

Also found backups of old webpages, but I’ll spare you the horror.

time

Posted in geek on June 27th, 2005 by larcher – Be the first to comment

Well, this stinks … AT&T Wireless/Cingular has their clocks set wrong — my phone is autoupdating its clock (based on the cell network time) to about 3 minutes behind the government’s atomic clock. No wonder I’m always late. ;-)

Wiki vs. ink-on-paper update

Posted in geek on February 3rd, 2005 by larcher – Be the first to comment

Still trying to use my private wiki for note taking at work .. I’m not, as I’d hoped, using it for everything I could possibly want to record — I can type faster and cleaner than I write , but I can pick up a notebook and pen faster than I can load the right webpage or open the right file in a text editor. And a spiral is so much lighter and easier to grab on the way to a meeting.

Haven’t completely abandoned the wiki though .. upgraded my version of Instiki today, in fact. And since there appears to be no “import” function, I rolled my own. I was impressed with how easy that turned out to be — curl is quite versatile with the HTTP POST action. I’d post the actual script to show you, but I left it at work .. maybe tomorrow

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