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What follows are the works and ramblings of a retired sysadmin. Some of this might be useful or entertaining to you, but probably not. Inspired by achurch.org, jwz.org, and textfiles.com. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.

Computing

• I think it’s funny how color is so important in computing, yet it’s surprisingly absent in a lot of modern CLI’s.
• I’ve got a bunch of Commodore 64’s to repair.
• My approach to Backups and a short history of Diskology’s Disk Jockey.
• The repeatable music situation is improving.
• Taking a page from Jason Scott’s book with The Chinese Goatse Incident.
• IRC, the great chat protocol that fell behind.
• My notes about mechanical keyboards.
• An homage to retro BBS emulation, sysop.menu.
• Some history about Linux as a router/firewall appliance in the 1990’s.

Software

• I wrote a clone of Murder Motel called Fernandotel,
• And a text-mode C64 hacking puzzle that might look familiar.
• Introducing ZZX, yet another ZFS replication daemon.
• Enjoy a blast from the past with LODOS, my LPmud/MudOS/FluffOS fork.

Gaming

• OpenTTD, the world’s best tycoon game.
• Retro gaming is a hobby as simple or as as complex as you make it.
• What’s the best version of Tempest?
• Magic: the Gathering, the best strategy game ever made despite Hasbro’s attempts to destroy it.

Travel

• The Canadian Rockies are the most beautiful travel destination on Earth.
• Because I’m a total nerd, I spent some time in California and Nevada looking for filming locations from The Wizard.
• I attended Breakpoint 2008 in Germany and felt like a fish out of water.
• The microstate of Liechtenstein, and how you can walk across the whole country in one day.
• Every Canadian needs to make a pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge.
• What do the Nuremberg Rally Grounds look like in the 21st Century?
• Nobody knew about Stadium Gate Station, Vancouver’s abandoned monorail station.
• Let me tell you the story of a website known as Cheapo Vegas.

Miscellanea

• Thoughts about the Jeep Patriot I owned from 2009 to 2019.
• Amateur Radio was an old hobby of mine, but I’m not really involved with it anymore.
• The history of CKIZ, a community radio station in Pincher Creek, Alberta.
• Bookmarks for my personal use. You might like them, too.