Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

Having been a long time Apple proponent, migration back into the world of the Commodity-Driven PC has been a bit awkward.

I opted for my most recent purchase to be a Dell Small Business system; for Dell’s prices are great, and I’ve aways had excellent luck with the DSB enviornment.

This was mangled at a week old, in one setting - by a Dell technician.

Yet\ anothe...

I was searching for a small quantity of 4/3A batteries to rebuild a dead nicad battery pack in a laptop that’s not worth $50, so I’m surely not going to pay $100 to have someone else solder some wires for me.. the battery pack’s system is fine; the nicads are just 8 years old, and toast.

I stumble...

NewsRadio, the funniest American TV show ever to be produced (that was chock full of Canadians), has finally seen Season 4 to DVD. It’s a ‘thinking Man’s Seinfeld,’ but actually funny.

Well, aside from documenting your code, as we all know is a sure sign of failure, the practice of doing really bizarre things in an effort to save CPU and disk cycles.. Observe a bit of internal notes for my currently-in-progress project (This one’s in PHP, so don’t sneer too loudly; you might hur...

Karsten Obarski, the father of computer assisted sequenced music, is 41 or\ 46 today. (Somebody\ has\ their\ dates\ wrong!)

Telephone still has one of the best sequences I can think of. I spent I don’t know how much time decoding MOD15 and later, MOD31 formats.. and here, 20 years after y...

I ran a free image hosting service in 1997. 1997, when the internet was still young, and, well, anyone who wanted to have a website ponied up the $35/yr for the privilege of the domain, and another $10-$100/month to host it. It was written in Perl, and was an unholy mess. I probably could have fudge...