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2021 Media Shipments Exabytes Revenue $/GB Flash598$68.6B$0.115 Hard Disk1418$28.0B$0.020 LTO Tape59.2$0.51B$0.003 I summed up my big picture view of archival media eight years ago in Archival Media: Not a Good Business. Whatever your choice of technology, the economics are brutal. This is a version of the table in...
I spent so many hours in IRC in the late 90s and early 2000s. I have seen the netsplits, the drama, the communities that formed. And it was such a fun time. I have seen the IRC client wars, people flaming mIRC users, irssi becoming popular and in a screen session making bouncers feel less relevant to be able to stay...
Little Green Pig is āa small charity based in Brighton and Hove* born out of the belief that offering children and young people the opportunity to develop writing skills and invest in their imaginations can truly change their lives. For over 15 years weāve worked across Sussex with more than 7,000 children aged...
When Bethany and I first came together, I was a full time single dad to two children already. They were in their teens and, quite frankly, I was looking forward to to having a life with adult children living on their own and Bethany and I being able to have the āfreedomā a child free life affords. When we started...
The Ware for July 2026 is shown below. Iāve got silicon on the brain, so Iām going to give a die shot another go at name that ware. Hopefully this one is a bit easier than the last one. This excerpt is a design pattern I look for and find on almost every SoC. Itās technically showing a bit more than just the part...
The Ware for June 2026 is an SGI RM6-64 raster manager, from a KONA/InfiniteReality graphics system. Congrats to Christian for naming it! email me for your prize. This gem of a board was gifted to me by someone at SGI back when I worked there inā¦I want to say 1998? I even still have the name plate from my cubicle,...
I mentioned here that, over the years, Iāve linked to 133 places on OpenStreetMap from the space.I set out to find a way to see those all on a map together.I started by pulled out the OpenStreetMap IDs from my blog posts, with a MySQL query:SELECT DISTINCT REGEXP_SUBSTR(field_body_value,...
Tomas Franzese returns to the show to chat about his newsletter Remastered, being the weekend editor at Polygon, and help determine if Xbox or PlayStation is going to win the battle for "Which Company Can Be the Worst?" throughout 2026. Download (58MB) ā Episode Transcript Show Notes Welcome MFP13 - āGo Back to...
A lot of the time, you feel that your excitement about a particular topic or piece of conversation isn't being reciprocated in kind. You realise the other person isn't as interested as you thought they'd be. They're listening to what you're saying out of courtesy, not attention. They won't remember most of the...
Tom Verlaine - The Ritz, New York City, December 21 / December 22, 1984Uhh, whoās that creepy dude in the parking lot? Nosferatu? Slender Man?!! Oh wait, itās just Tom Verlaine being Tom Verlaine. Yeah, weāre going to hang out with Tom a little while longer this week after listening to him at CBGB in 1976 yesterday....
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