uptime entry from the backup server:

05:18:19 up 368 days, 8:20, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

yea!

Posted by ra at 01:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

I left off last timeat the point I had just sold my first Internet domain to an ISP.

So there I was, with a windfall, but suddenly domain-name-less. Since I had been using the domain for my email (and provided accounts for others too) I had to quickly come up with an idea for a new domain name to register. It had only been a year since I registered it, but already it was much more difficult to find a short but appealing domain name. This time it took me a lot longer than a day.

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Hi, I just wanted to let you know your website is dirty. There is a spec of dirt about a quarter of the way down the page on the left side. I noticed this the other day. I though I should tell you because I've had a similar dirt problem in my email and it's been a real chore. I've re-installed it a million times and I can't get rid of the dirt. Hopefully you'll have better luck cleaning it off your website.
- S Bar

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Continuing on this nostalgia theme... I found the receipt for my very first computer the other day. Not the first computer I used (that was the family computer), but the first one that was all mine. This was 7.5 years ago. The parts we're purchased at the Computerfest that year, and most of them came from 5'oclock computers.

"Full" ATX case w/250W ps. - $89.76 (HA- this case, which I still have, is a small mid-tower)
32x toshiba cdrom - $71.40
Pentium II 333MHz cpu - $576.30 (!! the most expense cpu I've ever bought!)
3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive - $20.40
6.4GB western digital hd - $223.48
MS "Natural" kb - $46.92
asus P2L97 mb - $141.78 (funny, the price of a decent mb hasn't changed much in 7 yrs!)
USR 56k modem - $93.84 (modems .... hahaha)
17" relisys monitor - $324.36 (my sister is using this one right now)
logitech mouse - $18.36
windows 95 OSR2.5 (revC) - $93.84
128MB SDRAM - $204.00 (damn)
soundblaster awe64-value - $63.24
nvidia Riva128 4MB video card ~ $220 (I don't have this receipt since this was purchased elsewhere at CF, but I recall the price was just over 200 bucks.

So it was a ~ $2300 computer system. Holy shit, man.

Posted by ra at 00:33 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Sigh... do you remember back when Geocities was cool?

I had several Geocities sites over the years (those years being 1996-1998). I can't even remember what the addresses were, or even what I put up on those sites exactly. Though I do remember using one for a school project once. They used to have a "Neighborhood" concept going where you would choose a themed neighborhood and then you would be assigned a numerical "address" in that neighborhood. The URL for your site was made up of geocities.com, the neighborhood name, and your address number. It was actually kind of a neat concept. The service was free, so there was ads integrated into all your web pages hosted at Geocities, and if I remember correctly, you were allowed only a limited number of pages and a rather small bit of disk space on their server.
Geocities is now owned by Yahoo, and it appears that the neighborhoods may have given way to new developments.

Posted by ra at 20:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

This story is a few years old, originally posted on advocate.com, but it's still interesting. It's actually pretty funny, but really sad at the same time.

It's about a grandmother who was denied the purchase of Kiss Kiss bears at a Hallmark store. If you are unfamiliar with Kiss Kiss bears, they have magnets in their noses so when their faces get close, then snap together like they're kissing. This is how the grandmother's conversation with a store employee went:

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