Dave's Blog

I’ve always been fairly paranoid about my data storage,  so I don’t know why I felt so inclined to trust Maxtor’s Central Axis Data Server with all my files.   Maybe it was because I was impressed with the notion that that tiny cute little box held a Terabyte of storage and a Linux server, [...]

“Gives us the nice bright colors,  Gives us the greens of summers, Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day.” -Paul Simon from the song Kodachrome
Unfortunately, when I started scanning my Dad’s Kodachrome slides from our trip to California in 1967,  I discovered Kodachrome’s dirty little secret.  At first I thought the slides had [...]

Recently while catching up on the MoonViews LOIRP (mentioned previously here I noticed that project head Dennis Wingo had given a presentation to the Mountain View Hacker Dojo.
If you’ve not heard of a Dojo before, it is a Japanese word meaning literally “Place of the Way”.  The term is usually associated with places where young people [...]

I’ve always thought the term Rock Opera described two things that belonged together only in the most twisted of contexts.  Add to that a narcissistic “hero” called White Gold and place him in a whitewashed world called Milquarious,  and apparently you’ve got something the California Milk Producers Board can get behind to propel the “Got [...]