From the desk of

Monat: Juni 2010

  • More basement finds …

    So if you thought that the last post dates me, see here. This is from the mid eight­ies, magne­tic stripes to save stuff on. One stri­pe held all of 1.2 kb. What fun to remember!

  • URL shortening, a new approach

    The­re is an approach in URL shor­ten­ers that I have not yet seen, but think that has some merit: Store all the infor­ma­ti­on for the URLs in a DNS zone. Store the URLs you point to as TXT records. The zone can then be pul­led and per­used at will. That way, data is never stored…

  • Look what I found!

    Clea­ning up the base­ment (becau­se we had some water lea­king in, but that is a dif­fe­rent mat­ter enti­re­ly), I found stuff that prac­ti­cal­ly makes me feel ancient …