Category Archives: Random

Hyperstorage

Posted on January 27, 2011 by WorldWideWeber

Smartphones are amazing in a lot of ways, but the sight of the 2GB microSD card was … well, almost ludicrous. I had a flashback to a 360KB 5¼-inch floppy disk, and the big old piece of machinery needed to … Continue reading →

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Chromoconfusion

Posted on December 5, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

Remember my blue-green Volvo? Of course you don’t. You remember my green-blue Volvo. In any case, I’m thinking about the problem of color again, so watch out. Blame it on the University of Chicago and its blasted alumni magazine. The … Continue reading →

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UTF-8

Posted on December 1, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

Encoding (aka code pages)? No one gives a damn about encoding! True enough. It’s so deeply geeky, it’s hard to imagine any normal person knowing the difference between CP1251 and KOI8-R, for instance. Windows had code pages coming out the … Continue reading →

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Robič

Posted on October 5, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

As part of my continuing coverage of Crazy Slovenians (being ¼ C.S. myself), I’m sorry to report the death of one of the craziest (in the best sense, as usual). Back in 2008 the Basement saluted the winner of the … Continue reading →

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Varo

Posted on September 27, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

Every once in a while, a comment arrives in the Basement from out of the blue. Why, just recently a visitor commented on a post from September 2007, sharing his personal experiences visiting Inca structures in Peru and Bolivia. It’s … Continue reading →

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Linked

Posted on August 31, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

There’s nothing like a new chain to make you feel good about your old bike. Topping off the tire pressure was icing on the cake.

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Thoughtless

Posted on July 25, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

I continue to be astonished that someone related to me has the discipline to post a blog entry every day. “A thought a day,” she says in her tagline, “lets the mind out to play.” Sometimes she misses a day … Continue reading →

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Dogwood

Posted on May 28, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

I had intended to use these photos to test a flip-book plugin, but I found it cumbersome for my limited purposes. So I looked at the various WordPress gallery/slideshow plugins and settled on this one (NextGEN Gallery)—for now, at least. … Continue reading →

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Idling

Posted on February 11, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

It’s a thought that recurs every time a bit of nature knocks us out of our technological groove: Modern people don’t know how to do nothing.

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Drifting

Posted on February 10, 2010 by WorldWideWeber

I lost interest in the Great Snowfall of 2010 (February 5–6)* when it became clear we were not going to break any records. Snow, and then more snow, and snow yet again … yeah, we’re having an unusually snowy winter, … Continue reading →

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