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I didn't realize that the military held their own blood drives --- I've signed up for the one at the local National Guard Armory on 6/17.

http://www.militarylifeforce.com

I've also given platelets many times at the Red Cross, but the Recruiter for the Armed Services Blood Program indicated that ahperesis equipment isn't included for "mobile" blood ( Read more... )

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Boo --- Arthur C. Clarke has passed away at the age of 90. I was reading this article, and he sounds just as interesting as I'd always imagined he'd be: Sundown With Arthur: Remembering Arthur C. Clarke

That story linked to a Video: Arthur C. Clarke's Last Message to Earth, which he recorded for his 90th birthday last December --- that's when I went ( Read more... )

Mad props to Smart Boot Manager.

Using sbm, I was able to boot the Slackware 12 DVD on my trusty old P133. (80MB RAM, 6GB/3GB/2GB HDD's, DVDR)

Before my wireless router, this was my ipmasq router/firewall machine. Since then, it's just been a sandbox / workhorse, processing geocaching pocket queries, Samba shares, and MySQL --- all on an out-of-date ( Read more... )