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Monthly Archives: April 2004

Emulation redux

Because bleeding eyes are a bad thing, I’ll try to explain why emulators are so cool.

Emulators reduce a computer to two things: a program (the emulator) and a file (the “image” or drive). That’s all that’s required, and this becomes very easy to move around. I’ve got three computers at home, a laptop [...]

Layers of abstraction

I’m a geek. I know it.
In the lulls between scrambling around this week, I’ve gotten to dig into PC emulation some more. Professionally, I can use this to set up sandboxes and load software not widely available on our network more safely. Personally, I get a kick out of running a computer [...]

Have you ever noticed…

that no matter on what floor you work, the people – everybody – who work below you are bastards? All of them. Either they stop your elevator going up, or they interrupt it going down, but either way, they’re bastards. I’ve smiled and inwardly congratulated three people today for not being bastards.
The [...]

Happy Birthday To Me

Well, it’s happened again; I’m another year older. Had a blast Saturday as Kenny, Elaine, Kathy, Tom, Matt, Kymberlie, and Mandy came over for dinner – our first real party in the house. It was a great excuse to pull out all stops and spend the day cooking, and it all came out [...]