Monthly Archives: September 2024

Mullen, the king of EV stock scams

Posted on 2024-09-29 by skierpage

I care about the environment, so I care about transportation, so I care about EVs (or better yet, not carting your sorry ass and a laptop and/or a few kilos of groceries around in a 2-ton manufactured product), so I … Continue reading →

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web: let me link to a song, not a service!

Posted on 2024-09-19 by skierpage

I blog a lot about music. I want you to be able to play the songs I write about. You probably pay for a music streaming service that has millions of songs on it including the ones I discuss; you … Continue reading →

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software: preserving the pen-based computing past

Posted on 2024-09-11 by skierpage

I’m fortunate to have been a minor supporting character to some some ground-breaking software that failed in the marketplace: the PenPoint operating system from GO Corporation, the NeWS network/extensible window system from Sun Microsystems, ingenious forward quadratic texture mapping from … Continue reading →

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music: Phil Collins drums way Beyond the Lines

Posted on 2024-09-01 by skierpage

YouTube decided to feature a couple of overlong videos about the legendary drum fill in “In the Air Tonight.” (I’m not linking to them, because the same information is in its Wikipedia article, and just because YouTube pushes people to … Continue reading →

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