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Ahh, the lyrics to the Red Dwarf theme song:

Yessir, the name “Unxmaal” will be engraved onto a plate that’ll be shipped to Mars in 2003.

This is just great. I spend months backing up all my albums to MP3 format, then backing up the MP3s to CDRoms. Today I find out that scientists have discovered a fungus that eats through compact discs.

I guess now I’ll have to engrave my files onto stone monoliths. This gives a new twist on the purpose for Stonehenge: it’s a Druidic warez site!

Has anyone ever successfully gotten a Flash PC Card (like from a Cisco router) to work in a laptop PCMCIA slot?

I know this has to work somehow. It seems to me that this would be a great intermediary step between floppies and CDRoms, as the Flash Cards hold up to 128MB and supposedly act like removable drives.

My pal Mark Goosby sent me several IT industry haikus that (I assume) he composed:

Not my issue here
Says the server guy to me
Restart process – fix

trading floor problem
the network is always broken
why not sunadmin?

a telco problem
local carrier at fault
knee-jerk troubleshoot

circuit is broken
check coding and framing now
CSU options

user blames networking
firewall is misconfigured
easy easy fix

break out the sniffer
client server not talking
admin ignores test

Hell yeah, I remember Automan! I’d say that show and the movie Tron were what shaped my love of technology.

More: a link describing how Automan’s helicopter was created.

Chicago’s WGN-TV recorded the final Bozo the Clown show today.

Washington, DC has exploding manholes.

Reading by Hand is an interesting commentary on how human hands have shaped human minds, and the possible effects of shifting education’s focus from tactile learning to more mental exercises.

The Egoless Admin is an excellent editorial that explains how to handle working in a technical position without losing your mind or hating your job.