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Found Film

This site has pictures developed from rolls of film that were in vintage cameras bought by the webmaster. The pictures on them were forgotten or lost by those who took them, and are now brought to life many decades later.… Read More »Found Film

Mail Order Chickens

I just ran across Mail Order Chickens again- the site for people who love chickens. Can you make a difference today?

Datacenter upgrade

It’s finally starting to calm down from our datacenter upgrade. The new APC racks are in, the servers are all re-configured and installed in the racks. It’s been an incredible journey, and I for one am glad it’s nearly over.… Read More »Datacenter upgrade

Free & Cordless Skype

Unless you are living under a rock, you’ve probably heard about Skype offering free calls to the US and Canada for the rest of this year. While I think that open systems, based on SIP, like Project Gizmo are going to be the winners in the long run, you can’t beat free. With the free offer, I signed up for Skype, and tested it a bit with a wired headset. I was pretty impressed with the quality, but couldn’t see a lot of use for it day to day.

This weekend, however I was at Radio Shack to pick up some cable & a cordless phone to add an extension to my office. As they were having a store closing sale, I thought I’d checkto see if they had Hummer games cheap (they have a C64 on a chip in them, which I want to mod into a working C64 laptop/handheld). Right next to them, they had the Linksys cordless Skype phone. Coincidentilly, the sale price on the Linksys was the same as the spool of cable and the cordless I had in my hands. So I picked up the Linksys, took it home, and gave it whirl. Read More »Free & Cordless Skype

Christopher Walken 2 Pack

A couple of oldie but goodies today featuring Christopher Walken: First the SNL cowbel skit: And second Mr. Walken in Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice”

I’m not dead yet!

No, I’m not dead – just been keeping very busy personally & professionally. We just returned from Florida to have my daughter have more visits with Dr. Bradstreet for her Aspergers/Autism. We were down for two weeks and made really… Read More »I’m not dead yet!

Text to Speech Generator

AT&T needs help perfecting their tech to speech generator. You need an anonymous voice for your prank calls. It’s a match made in Heaven!