Tag Archives: boobies

Charlie and the Dirty Thumb

Posted on Sunday, 18. January 2015 by hmvh

Two rather disturbing events took place last week. 12 people were gunned down by the extremist nitwit Kouachi brothers at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. In another twist of unrelated coincidence, it was the 7th of January — the same day as the shootings — when I saw that my old Google Group had been declared non grata. Continue reading →

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Death of a recordable compact disc

Posted on Sunday, 8. March 2009 by hmvh

Accelerated-aging tests hadn’t gotten to the point that any printed reviews could be trusted, and so we all went and splashed out obscene sums of cash for a 2X burner (a whopping 300KB/s writing speed) and copied all our precious data over onto CD-Rs — media where only one thing was guaranteed: one blank disc out of a box of ten will become a coaster, regardless of brand or cost. Continue reading →

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BBS News: CD-ROMs ON-LINE

Posted on Tuesday, 16. September 1997 by hmvh

Apologies for the BBS’s downtime on Tuesday but this was to the benefit of our resident sexual connoisseurs: I’ve finally gotten around to adding a few CD-ROMs (Group 10), which involved re-shuffling some of the other minor areas as well. … Continue reading →

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