Photography is arguably my oldest hobby. I’ve loved taking photos for as long as I can remember. I reflected on my first encounter with digital photography in 2003 in a recent post, but I’m old enough that I first got to know photography through film. I still don’t know what it is exactly that draws me to still images, but I find the same joy capturing light with a camera

A childhood friend of mine got an iPod in 2004. It was a third generation model with a mind boggling 40 gigabyte hard drive. This was incredible at the time – I had just gotten my first MP3 player with very modest 128MB of storage, a NAPA PA28. Despite its minuscule storage size, it was still exciting to use at a time when portable CD players still reigned supreme. But

The digital Dark Age The October Archive.org attack shook me in a bad way. For a while now I’ve been increasingly convinced that in the not-too-distant-future we will be referring to the period of the early 21st century as a digital dark age. Not just because of the seemingly unstoppable rise of anti-intellectual, anti-science fascist movements around the world that use the internet to spread like wildfire, but also due

I’ve been wanting to see the SS United States, which has been docked in Philadelphia since 1996, for many years. The SS United States is a fascinating ship. One of the last great ocean liners built, setting sail in 1952 and maintaining line service for only 9 years before starting cruises in 1961. It is still the holder of the Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing. I once saw

Earlier this year I had lots of fun participating in GlobalTalk, a fun collaborative experiment where a bunch of folks interconnected their home AppleTalk networks into one global network that allowed their classic Macs and other devices to communicate across vast distances. While AppleTalk is normally tied to a physical location (contemporary uses were usually limited to offices or schools), I was eager to experiment with using it on the go.

The organization I work for thankfully wasn’t affected by the CrowdStrike incident, but I ended up assisting a subcontractor who works at our site since their IT team was of course swamped all day with calls. This article covers two issues I ran into: Getting into Recovery mode via SecureBoot toggling This particular machine that was affected by the faulty CrowdStrike driver kept BSOD-ing, but it wouldn’t actually get to

The 40th anniversary of the Galaksija is getting celebrated in a truly special way: Dejan Ristanović and Voja Antonić, the duo behind the original project, have teamed up once again to celebrate both the Galaksija computer and the publication that made it possible, by releasing beautiful reproductions of both!

It’s the middle of MARCHintosh! Thanks to the unexpected GlobalTalk craze, I spent the first two weeks of March having a great time participating in the world’s first global AppleTalk network. The first few days were wild — I’ve already documented my setup to interconnect a mini vMac emulator to my SE/30 running the Apple Internet Router to connect to the rest of GlobalTalk, but as of March 16 this

It’s MARCHintosh! The month when the vintage computing community celebrates the classic Macintosh experience. This MARCHintosh started with a bang – seemingly overnight, the #GlobalTalk network took over Mastodon and soon many of us were networking each other’s disparate home AppleTalk networks into a #GlobalTalk network across continents. We’re still in the middle of the #GlobalTalk craze and I expect to write more about my experience further down the line,

In early September I published a post on Mastodon, with what was meant to be a humorous comment. “Oh no”, I said, implying that there is something wrong with getting a highly coveted Macintosh SE/30. The joke was accompanied by a photo of a small beige Mac on a Long Island Rail Road platform. If only I knew how many times I would repeat that “oh no” over the following