Category Archives: Ramblings

C2E2 – 2012

Posted on 2012/04/15 by Derek Weber

This weekend brought to Chicago the C2E2 event (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo). I had never been to such an event prior to this weekend and I have to say, it was a lot of fun. As can be expected … Continue reading →

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Nostalgic Computing – MS DOS/Windows vs Apple Macintosh vs Commodore Amiga

Posted on 2012/04/09 by Derek Weber

WOW! Odd that I should’ve been in a fit of Commodore nostalgia all week and find out that Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, passed away yesterday at the age of 83. You created great things Jack. Rest in peace. … Continue reading →

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Nostalgic Computing – Commodore 64 Printing

Posted on 2012/04/07 by Derek Weber

This week has been devoted to spring cleaning. Throwing away the old, organizing what I need to keep etc . . . Since moving all my video game systems have been living in a box for lack of better … Continue reading →

Posted in Ramblings | Tagged Broderbund, C64, Commodore, Commodore 64, KX-P1123, KX-P1124, Panasonic, Super Graphix Jr., The Print Shop, Xetec | Leave a comment

Changing How I Utilize Facebook

Posted on 2012/02/19 by Derek Weber

I’ve been neglecting my personal website in favor of Facebook. Yes, the big bad demon of fast and easy content sharing. Two problems with Facebook. First problem is my writing ability has suffered greatly after a few years of short … Continue reading →

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Fun Products

Posted on 2005/10/08 by Derek Weber

Liquid Nightmare Green Gas Evacuator Sonic Nausea

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Giving blogging another shot

Posted on 2005/08/26 by Derek Weber

My web space provider Dreamhost has implemented a pretty nice web logging (otherwise known as blogging) software called WordPress. It’s not a bad system, I like it better than the iBlog program I was using before so far . . … Continue reading →

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