01/16/2001
AMD and DDR. Good news for hardware enthusiasts wanting AMD-based DDR systems. Via shipped its 266 MHz DDR chipset Monday. This is good news because Via can in all likelihood supply their chipsets in...
View ArticleWhat the press doesn’t want to tell you about Kaycee
Dan Bowman forwarded me a string of e-mail yesterday that raised a number of questions about the press. Apparently there is at least one reporter trying to find out how many people gave gifts to...
View ArticlePlanes, trains, and computers
Planes. I'm not as big of an airplane fanatic as my dad was, but no one is. It's too bad he didn't live to see the Web come of age, because I found some sites that would have made him want to use a...
View ArticleRethinking Movable Type and b2
A very interesting discussion today made me re-think the importance of a content management system such as Movable Type or b2. The post Rethinking Movable Type and b2 appeared first on The Silicon...
View ArticleSlashdot just located another sleazy spammer
The Dayton Daily News ran a story today about another sleazy spammer. Naturally, it took Slashdot mere hours to dig up an address, based on clues from the article. The post Slashdot just located...
View ArticleThe unheralded bargain in O gauge trains
Toy trains are a funny thing. Vintage Lionel trains are almost a status symbol, and their value has almost taken a mythical quality. Marx, on the other hand, was the working class brand in the 1950s,...
View ArticleI helped my girlfriend move this weekend
It's been a long weekend and I'm exhausted, but I like the situation my girlfriend finds herself in now. She has an apartment in the Holly Hills neighborhood in south St. Louis. The post I helped my...
View ArticleAliens on my train layout
I bought a couple of aliens for my train consist today. At the annual TCA Ozark Division train show at Lutheran South that happens every December, I spotted some lonely American Flyer bodies sitting...
View ArticleParents aren\’t supposed to act this way
There's an episode of "Everybody Hates Chris" where a thug tries to get Chris to start stealing gold chains for him. Toward the end, Chris' dad finds out, confronts him, and says that if he goes near...
View ArticleHow to sell Lionel trains
Since I’ve covered other makes of trains, someone asked me how to sell Lionel trains. So I thought I would give similar advice on selling Lionel trains. Lionel is an iconic, legendary part of...
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