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I’m retiring my long-time domain, siteseers.net, next week. I’ve had it since 1997, back when I used ISDN to access the Internet. While it will be sad to see it go, I don’t really use it anymore. I’ve got more than a dozen other domain names and this one is needlessly adding to the cost of annual domain renewals.
I’m going to park it at Sedo in case anyone is interested in buying it.
I spent part of yesterday afternoon at the former Army SIGINT base known as Vint Hill Farms Station, which is now a county park and office park development. Vint Hill reminds me of a similar base to which I was once assigned but is now also an office part development: Fort Devens in western Massachusetts.
As I surveyed the empty barracks and parade field, I realized that precious few of the places I’ve been stationed are still active military installations.
The only station from my military past that is still kicking is NTTC Corry Station in Pensacola. I was sent there after initial training in Fort Devens.
Makes me feel old.
Not long ago I blogged about being a Compuserve user way back when. Well it turns out that Compuserve pulled the plug on the “classic” accounts at the end of last month.
Truly the end of an era.
(h/t Mark Hinkle)
Kodachrome will be no more. Check out some reminiscences, the Kodachrome Project and Kodak’s Kodachrome Sildeshow.
Kodachrome (YouTube)
Paul Simon
When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school
It’s a wonder I can think at all
And though my lack of education hasn’t hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall
Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away
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Driving by the hole that is John Kane’s North Hills project, I was reminded again of the building that used to be there at 4200 Six Forks Road, where I once worked for HAHT Software 13 years ago.
One day at HAHT the weather was just too nice to be spending the day indoors. Some conspiring took place among the HAHTsters – whispering in the halls, that sort of thing – and before you knew it, the entire company was filing out to their cars. We assembled again at Capital Bouelvard’s Adventure Landing, where we proceeded to race each other on go-carts for the rest of the afternoon. Man, that was a fun place to work.
I’ve got video of that event somewhere. I’ll post it once I get it digitized.
This night seven years ago was one of the scariest nights of my life. Kelly was in the hospital seriously ill with preeclampsia, her vital organs slowly shutting down. I watched in terror as her blood pressure soared, feeling utterly helpless. It was a terrible feeling. I worried how it would all turn out.
And yet through it all was the chirp of a baby’s enthusiastic heartbeat, offering hope for a happy future. Sure enough, the next day became one of the happiest of my life when Hallie was born. We had to wait another 7 weeks to take her home, but we made it through. If only I could’ve seen back then where we’d be today.
In her young life Hallie has shown there are no barriers she can’t overcome. Our amazing girl turns seven tomorrow. Happy birthday, Hallie!
I walked out of one of the buildings on the company campus the other day and became hypnotized by the warm sun and gentle breeze. I daydreamed the steps I was walking down were sand dunes and the well-manicured lawn I was facing was an endless ocean. Suddenly, returning to a windowless cubicle in an air-conditioned maze wasn’t as appealing as it had been.
Dang my luck that the best job in the world was just claimed. That’ll teach me to actually apply for something next time!
Some WRAL viewers had trouble watching the channel yesterday morning and wondered what was happening. WRAL’s crack team of meteorologists checked into the issue and found a strong temperature inversion to be the culprit. Nate Johnson describes the phenomenon in the station’s WeatherCenter blog.
I worked extensively with radio while in the Navy. Once I was blown away when I tuned in San Francisco FM radio stations from 800 miles away in the Pacific! This phenomenon still fascinates me, if you couldn’t tell!
I overheard a conversation in the office this morning about first email addresses. One guy says he once had an email address without an @. That’s old-school, for sure.
My first personal email address was jmturner at eos dot ncsu dot edu, which I picked up back in 1992. The one I probably used the most at the time though was the Compuserve account of Pioneer Software (a.k.a. Q+E Software). It was something like 71333.xxxx at compuserve dot com. I was managing the company’s technical support forum on Compuserve from 1992 to 1994.
Right now I can’t picture the client I used for Compuserve. I think the client was originally a text-based terminal, though later I recall CS came out with a GUI front-end once Windows became established. This was in the days before the Web became publicly available (though UNC’s ibiblio was already serving web pages as one of the first webservers in the world.
Dang, I’m old.
As promised, here is my sleep report.
Sleep report
This page doesn’t show my apnea scores. I’ll get more info from Dr. Garside on this because I neglected to ask him for them.
