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Status message of the day
I was going to browse around WordPress.org today looking for some new plugins for my blogs when I got this message:
This is a custom message for a 503 error which I think is rather funny.
I did as instructed and the site was indeed back up and running a minute later.
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Please excuse my absence
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to apologize for the disappearance of my blog recently. Actually, my blog was still there, it was my domain that had disappeared. ( It’s a long story and something that was totally my fault. )
Anyway, that’s all taken care of so we should not have any service interruptions for quite some time.
Mitch
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Blast from the Past: Cool Programmer Books
The other day, I was reading Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar: How Self-Education and the Pursuit of Passion Can Lead to a Lifetime of Success
by James Marcus Bach. It is an interesting book and one that I’ll write more about it in other post.
Anyway, James discussed a book, 6502 Assembly Language Programming, that his father gave him so he could write low-level programs for his Apple II. ( Yep, this was a while ago. ) James also explained what this book meant to him and how it changed his life.
Here is that book for me:
Circa 1985. This was the one that started it all. I absolutely devoured the contents of this book to the point that it basically fell apart. It told me everything that I needed to know about how a PC worked on the inside. That was a really big deal back then and I used that book for years doing everything from assembly language, to BASIC, to Turbo Pascal, to WordPerfect macros.
I sold most of my early computer programming books back in the mid-90’s so I no longer have much from my early programming days. But, while reading James’ book I remembered just how fun that book was and how it made me feel, and I got all nostalgic. I tracked one down on Amazon.com and for a mere $8 plus shipping, it again resides in my library.
Yee ha!
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