Daily Archives: May 21, 2006

Approaching another Milepost

May 21, 2006 – 8:50 pm

With the Akismet spam sludge-trap counter now at 970, this will doubtless be the week, or even maybe the night, where tbbs-land hits the 1000 mark.
You may call them dirty scumbags, but I’ve advanced from the common “enhancement” product spams, to hold ‘em poker, to legit sports handicapping, and now, I’m proud to say, to [...]

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Rusty, the Broadcaster

May 21, 2006 – 2:30 pm

I’m watching the “Bump Day” coverage from Indianapolis, and I’m impressed with Rusty Wallace’s abilities in the broadcast booth. It is evident that even though open wheel cars weren’t what made Rusty famous, that he understands racing. Witness this comment he just made, about a racer whose name I didn’t get:
He’s already spun out [...]

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Back in the PDA Saddle

May 21, 2006 – 11:43 am

My old Palm m505 breathed its last here awhile back, and I determined that that was the end of my PDA usage. I’ve been a Palm customer clear back to the Palm IIIx days, and in lots of ways, the ol’ IIIx was the best. I had a serial connect program which [...]

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Free Veritas

May 21, 2006 – 11:04 am

Not Veritas, as in Truth. I’d like to think that truth is dispensed daily, and freely, on this ‘ol blog. I refer rather to Veritas Storage Foundation Basic, now available as a free download. It is limited to 4 volumes, and 4 mounted vxfs filesystems. It is also constrained to run [...]

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