Latest Posts » Page 4
World of Warcraft
Part Seven: Legends of the Multiverse
2023-12-24 · updated on 2024-09-18 · 2436 words · 12 mins read
Gear is for six months. Transmog is forever. — Folk tale
Epic Cartoon Themes of the 80s and 90s
2024-09-17 · 1962 words · 10 mins read
“When darkness falls, leaving shadows in the night, don’t be afraid, wipe that fear from your eyes.” — Lisa Lougheed
Nokia N97 and N97 mini (2009)
2024-09-09 · 511 words · 3 mins read
the N97 was “a tremendous disappointment in terms of experience and quality” which resulted from “an unbelievable cycle of events that took far too long to repair and mitigate”. — Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s executive vice president at the time – Mobile Phone Museum
Another Watchlist
2024-08-14 · 126 words · 1 min read
“Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese.” — Luis Buñuel
Retro Computer: ICE Felix HC91 with IF1 (1991)
2024-08-12 · 2127 words · 10 mins read
Romanian computers were used in science academies, universities, factories and enterprises in China. Even today, Chinese scientists remember the Romanian Felix computers. — Xu Feihong
Retro Computer: ZX Spectrum (1982)
2024-08-08 · 57 words · 1 min read
“I used to write my own sequencing programs on the Spectrum, believe it or not. I still built a lot of my own equipment. When I started out I didn’t have any money, so if I wanted to get anything different, I had to change what I had or make something.” — Richard James (Aphex Twin)
Chrome Extensions
RSS Feed Buttons Chrome Extension
2023-07-28 · updated on 2024-08-07 · 363 words · 2 mins read
Google could have done a much nicer job of taking care of RSS, but they didn’t do that. And they’re doing the same thing with the web today. It’s incredible. They’re doing it to the whole web. They’re doing it slowly and they put a lot of hype onto it. They make it sound like they’re doing good things. But in fact, what they’re doing is they’re going to shrink the web down to the part of the web that they can monetize. — Dave Winer
Google-less Youtube Embeds
2024-08-05 · updated on 2024-08-05 · 1433 words · 7 mins read
“There are sections that break rather easily on his site as some of his media links back to YouTube which bars a person (depending on the country) from viewing.” — S-Config
Retro Laptop: Sony Vaio - VGN-9K2M (2003)
2024-07-24 · 261 words · 2 mins read
“If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.” — Alan Perlis