What is old is new again.

alternateorg on August 13, 2004

I actually used the title of this post twice today, once on a car forum regarding a design change (back to an old look) and now for this useless little tidbit.

So whats the tidbit … well, you’ll have to remember back to the Syquest and Bernoulli days to appreciate my rant… Anyway, Iomega has recently released what is basically a Syquest.

Iomega Rev Drive

Historical Removable Media Lesson:
The Syquest 88 was crushed by the Zip 100, the Zips by the Jaz (Iomegas first Syquest rip off), the Jaz by CDRs, CDRs by firewire drives, and now they think they can pull their slowly dying company out of the ashes and to the forefront of removable media with yet another re-branded fucking syquest. Once again, damn tards.

Updates

alternateorg on October 24, 2002

So work’s been going really well, which is the reason for the obvious lack of activity here. I’ll be surprised if anyone actually checks here anymore. If you do, the chances are that I know you personally.

Anyway, just a heads up. I’ll be out of the state this weekend, as my cousin is playing for ASU in Arizona, and we’re meeting some other family members there for a rootin’ good time. I’m planning on using the 2 14 hour drives in 4 days to catch up on some much-needed sleep, hopefully resulting in my not using phrases such as ‘”rootin’ good time.” My lovely iPod will be keeping me company, my only concern being that 5GB of music won’t be enough.

Some random thoughts:

  • Soul Coughing’s ‘Screenwriter’s Blues’ is as addictive as crack, and much less harsh on the lungs. “We are all going to Receda someday, to die…” Check it out.
  • iChat is a great app, once you’ve got it configured to not be gay.
  • Object-oriented PHP makes life that much easier. At least while you’re coding PHP.
  • How cool is it that I get to design the interface for what is basically RetinalPMS, only it’s my employer footing the bill? The answer is very cool, as I don’t feel like my ideas for a web-based project-management system are going to waste
  • I’ll be adding a poll for you to decide whether I should buy a .Mac account or not. The low-down: My wife uses iPhoto/homepage to host images for her ebay auctions, and it’s way easy for her to use, as it’s all integrated. The replacement photo service she switched to has been down for 3 days now. I use homepage to show pictuers of our kids to family abroad. Yet the entire thing now costs $100/year. Still undecided, basically because I can build something that does all of this, runs on hosting I already have, and looks however I want it to look. On the other hand, that will take lots of time and I’d almost rather buy the service and have it taken care of.