So very true….
Jamie Zawinski’s notes on the early days of the Netscape/Mozilla Transition
Continue reading “Jamie Zawinski’s notes on the early days of the Netscape/Mozilla Transition”On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my “department”, such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from “clienteng” over to the “website” division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something.
That, uh, didn’t happen.
Jamie Zawinski
Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #2 – June 19th, 1986
Episode Number: 1162
First Shown: 7.00pm on June 19th, 1986
Presenter(s): Gary Davies
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – June 19th, 1986
BBC Genome: Here!
Death By Chair
Possibly my favourite ever Doctor Who death – the man-eating chair from 1971’s Terror of the Autons. It’s great fun with 70s Doctor Who remaining true to it’s nature – spending almost 30 seconds on inflating a plastic chair – and, as always, Roger Delgado remains the consummate professional through out.
2001: A Space Odyssey – As directed by George Lucas
I’d have watched that.
Random Acts of Top of the Pops: #1 – January 18th, 1990
Episode Number: 1351
First Shown: 7.00 pm on January 18th, 1990
Presenter(s): Nicky Campbell
Official Top 40: @The Official Charts
Studio: BBC Television Centre
iPlayer: Top of the Pops – January 18th, 1990
BBC Genome: Here!
Retro Directory
Retro Directory is a listing of retro computing orgs, museums, podcasts and youtube channels. I knew about a few of these but most are a complete surprise to me!
My own little bit of retro computingness can be found at Period Sites in Period Browsers.
Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music
Microsoft’s Windows might dislike the naming scheme of MASTER BOOT RECORD‘s albums.
Horrible Edge Cases to Consider When Dealing With Music, Dustri.org
If you’re on Linux, you might appreciate ///////-//-///// from The You Suck Flying Circus.
And here’s a fun little list of weird edge cases to think about when dealing with music. Some – such as Nine Inch Nails’s Broken having 90 tracks of four seconds of silence – I knew about, but may of them I’d not seen before and their issues wouldn’t have even crossed my mind.
The 2023 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cat Calendar
Courtesy of the Portland Branch of the US Army Corps of Engineers, we now have the badly photoshopped Kaiju cat calendar none of us knew we actually needed!
Middlewich Breach Repair Time Lapse
A lovely little time lapse of the repairs to the 2018 Middlewich Breach.
…And here’s the Foxes Afloat video that covers the whole thing!