Al een uur wakker. ‘t

Al een uur wakker. ‘t Is godgeklaagd. Pfff.

En de mannen van Wholly Genes hebben hun werk niet echt goed gedaan: akkoord, The Master Genealogist is tegenwoordig een echt 32-bit programma (‘t heeft ook lang genoeg geduurd), maar er schort nog serieus wat aan de interface.

Ik zou eigenlijk moeten suggesties doorsturen, da’s mijn goed recht. Misschien eens een dossiertje opbouwen met dummy screen shots en alles.

Sometimes I wonder why

Sometimes I wonder why I spend
The lonely nights
Dreaming of a song
That melody haunts my reverie
And I am once again with you
When our love was new
And each kiss an inspiration
Ah, but that was long ago
Now my consolation
Is in the stardust of a song

Omdat een mens een doel nodig heeft in zijn leven: ik ga proberen zoveel mogelijk versies van Stardust te hebben. Ik heb er tot nog toe zeventien. Denk ik.

WHAT THE FUCK?!  Ik weet

WHAT THE FUCK?!  Ik weet begod niet wiet die mensen zijn en waarom ik geblokkeerd zou zijn, maar blijkbaar als ik naar http://www.underdogs.org wil gaan, krijg ik deze boodschap:

Attention your ip address has been blocked from seachport servers

Policy: Automated Retrieval Program (Robot) Activity on the Searchport(s) site(s)

The searchport.com web site serves the needs of a wide and varied customer base.
In order to serve those needs most efficiently, we strongly urge that individuals and organizations
refrain from using automated retrieval programs (or robots) against the searchport(s) site.

If it is absolutely necessary to use an automated retrieval program or robot to retrieve this information,
please contact bill@nospam.netvisibility.com ( remove the nospan. addition to continue with email notification)
 
   Send request to be unblocked from the searchport.com site(s)
         
           A:) Include reason why such robot activity is required
           B:) Company complete contact information companyname,address,phone,email address
           C:) Qualified reason to have ip address unbanded from the servers

Huh? Ik wou eigenlijk toch Home of the Underdogs hebben, niet underdogs.org, maar het blijft vreemd. Vooral om ik mijn ip-nummer via DHCP krijg.

Er zijn nog mensen met

Er zijn nog mensen met goedheid op het internet:

Halcyon Days: Interviews with Classic Computer and Video Game Programmers was released as a commercial product in March 1997. At the time it was one of the first retrogaming projects to focus on lost history rather than game collecting, and certainly the first entirely devoted to the game authors themselves. Now a good number of the interviewees have their own web sites, but none of them did when I started contacting them in 1995. And it was an early experiment in digital publishing: though the book used html for formatting, it was shipped to readers on a 3 1/2″ diskette for a price of $20. In 1997 this seemed odd and gutsy, but the little collection of interviews found an audience and sold a good many of copies for the next five years. It was twice written up in Wired News, and was quoted or mentioned in The Dallas Morning News, The Austin Chronicle, and other major newspapers. It was paired with Susan Lammers’s wonderful Programmers at Work on a disc in the Dr. Dobb’s CD-ROM library.

It is now 2002 and Halcyon Days has run its commercial course. I’m putting it on the web because I still think the information in the book is fantastic and inspiring, and because much of it cannot be found elsewhere. The contents and HTML have been minimally edited from the original, which why the filenames are in all capitals, for example. But enough rambling. If you have any of the giddy anticipation that I did whenever I picked up a magazine containing an interview with Mark Turmell or Dan Bunten, then you want to start reading.