This is a lovely little video of RNLI boat launches. I especially like the Lizard Point launch – having walked the coastal path above that lifeboat station I can tell you it’s quite a drop down to both the cliff to the station and from the station to the sea!
Author: ChrisC
The Kemps Expansion 2
The Worst-selling Microsoft Software Product of All Time: OS/2 for the Mach 20
Raymond Chen at ‘The Old New Thing’ has a lovely tale about what could be Microsoft’s worst selling product ever – OS/2 for the Mach 20.
Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing.
According to that person’s memory (which given the amount time that has elapsed, means that we should basically be saying “according to legend” at this point), a total of eleven copies of “OS/2 for Mach 20” were ever sold, and eight of them were returned.
I’ve seen a few expansion cards as part of choosing images for ‘Retro Computer Adverts‘, but the Mach 10| 20 is not one I’ve yet stumbled across. And as for ads for ‘OS/2 for Mach 20’? Not a sausage!
CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice
I don’t usually do this kind of thing but sometimes you just have too…
CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice is a noble and important cause and, after their 2012 tragedy, is probably one you should pay attention too.
Stable / Kathleen Herbert (2007)
I think I first mentioned Kathleen Herbert’s Stable back in mid August when I posted the video for Melanie Manchot’s Cornered Star.
Getting a Random Post at Compile Time in Jekyll
While pure Jekyll cannot do true random links to posts at page access, it is possible to insert a link to a random post at site compile time.
At it’s most basic, this can be done with the following liquid snippet which will select a random post from the ‘site.posts‘ collection and then insert that post’s title into the page. This can be expanded to extract other pieces of data from within the ‘post‘ object as you desire.
Continue reading “Getting a Random Post at Compile Time in Jekyll”Retro Computer Adverts – End of Month One
It’s now been a month since I first (quietly) launched ‘Retro Computer Adverts | Your daily dose of retro computing adverts!‘ and, so far, it’s remained a fun little project.
Continue reading “Retro Computer Adverts – End of Month One”Xibalba / Clint Mansell with the Kronos Quartet (2006)
Clint Mansell’s really rather delightful ‘Xibalba’ from the soundtrack to 2006’s The Fountain. I remember really enjoying The Fountain at the time and I should probably go back and give it another watch.
The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Mid September 2025
See more of the Middlecave work here!
Time for another round of photographs from the Middlecave Yard demolition and rebuild.
I’ve also managed to dig out a target site plan, something that should help contextualise some of the pictures below. As always, bigger images are just a click away.
Continue reading “The Middlecave Yard Demolition and Rebuild – Mid September 2025”HM Treasury Web Server Statistics (1994 – 1997)
Period Sites in Period Browsers has just thrown up another interesting little oddity – very early server stats from HM Treasury’s web server.
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