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More on Cats and Moving
September 15th, 2004, No Comments
Cat Overpopulation Sophie’s new batch of kittens has arrived. We thought she’d need a comfortable place to park the new cats, so we cut a cardboard box to what seemed like a good size and shape and put some old quilts in it. Sophie didn’t seem too interested when we placed the box in a [...]
Multiplying Cats and Moving Companies
August 24th, 2004, No Comments
Feline Anomolies The abandoned mother cat and two kittens previouly mentioned are not only still with us but a new twist has developed in the story. I noticed the other day that Sophie, the mother cat, seemed to be gaining a bit of weight and I kidded Susan about feeding her too much. A couple [...]
Random News Updates
March 18th, 2000, No Comments
You can always tell when things are getting busy at NCC because the frequency of my news updates drops. We’ve got two big projects that may be starting in the next couple of weeks and I’ve been madly going through my todo list trying to get all the small things done while I’ve still got [...]
Spam and Other Annoyances
December 20th, 1999, No Comments
My increased efforts at dealing with the all the spam we’ve been getting lately seems to be having some effect. The good news is that I’ve accumulated a dozen or so “kills” – mostly just throw-away accounts but at least one web site & domain shut down by an ISP. The bad news is that [...]
ISDN and the Art of Line Monitoring
December 18th, 1999, No Comments
The last couple of days have been spent helping Erin get up and running on ISDN. She lives in an area where DSL is not available and she’s got a terrible quality analog phone line that prevents a good modem connection. You’d think by now that the phone companies would have ISDN down to a [...]
Neighborhood Christmas Lights
December 8th, 1999, No Comments
Susan and I just returned from a long walk around the neighborhood to inspect all the Christmas lights that are going up. It looks like quite a few of our more industrious neighbors have already installed lights on their houses, trees, and bushes. There also seems to be quite an assortment of large, internally lighted, [...]
End of the ISDN Era
November 3rd, 1999, No Comments
If anybody is looking for some used ISDN stuff, NCC has a few interesting items on eBay right now. We’re selling an old Ascend Pipe 50 and a Netgear ISDN modem. And if you like really old stuff, we’re selling a Hayes ISDN adapter – it’s not very fast but it would make a nice [...]
Fun with Host Naming Schemes
October 29th, 1999, No Comments
There’s a great Slashdot article on host naming schemes today. It talks about the struggle of smart people who want to give their machines useful and fun names based on consistant naming schemes such as Soviet leaders (Leonid, Yuri, etc.) or French Wines (Pauillac, Pomerol, etc.) versus stupid managment types who want to give them [...]
