Mornington High, 1969

Today I came around to nana & pop’s again, browsed the web for a while, checked my email – all the usual. Chris arrived unannounced – albeit not entirely unexpected, given he’d mentioned potentially coming down today when I last saw him, last week – and together with pop we set about cleaning up the… Read more

The Old Computers

A bit before Christmas I decided it was time to get rid of all the old computer crap that’s filling up two closets, half a wardrobe, and the back corner of the study. There’s nothing wrong with any of it – a whole range of ancient Macs, printers, a pristine Apple OneScanner, Zip drives, hard… Read more

My stuff

While I was cleaning out all my crap at my mum’s place the other week, I took the opportunity to photograph of a lot of the stuff, so that even if I do get rid of it, I’ll have something to remember it by. Yes, overly sentimental, but I’m sure I’ll be glad I did… Read more

#geektree [5/4/2001] – DarkZone

For a while a few of us had the idea, at this point in time, to build our own DarkZone-style kit – guns, packs, the whole bit. Of course, my grasp of electronics at that point was relatively comical, as was everyone’s, really. So our designs tended to use relays and obscene pseudo-digital logic… really… Read more

#geektree [4/4/2001] – Sarah & I

Hmm… now I’m confused. I could have sworn Sarah and I started going out on the 11th of April, 2001 (we broke up in March last year, only a week or two shy of our three year anniversary). It was only a week or so before my birthday; she was going to wait until my… Read more

#geektree [3/4/2001] – My dad’s better than your dad, rich shareware authors, the op-wars, Lord of the Rings, Ducky and the Pirate Ship

This is the first day I ran folding@home. Previously I’d been running distributed.net for years, even back to the 8100 I had I think – I remember thinking the speed boost up to the G4 was awesome. :) Plus, I berated any PC users who also used distributed.net, since it ran way faster on Mac’s… Read more