http://www.babygods.com Babygodhivism in action Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:36:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I always thought of the wayback machine as the internet archive, but having recently stumbled across archive.org I much prefer this. And I can rock out with  the live music archive and, in particular, warren zevon, but there are so many bands listed here that I’ll have a hard time ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2009/06/26/rock-with-the-internet-archive/ And so my obsession with the destroyer novels has come to an end. A great series of novels originally written by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir about an ex-cop trained as an assassin to work for a secret US government sponsored agency. 149 books in total  - although I only ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2009/01/22/bye-bye-the-destroyer/ And there I stood thinking I had found a bargain picking up 3 Dan Streib Hawk books at knock down give away prices. Much though I love pulp fiction I could find nothing to endear me towards Hawk. For some reason the author would never consistently refer to him by ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2009/01/20/i-balk-at-hawk-by-dan-streib/ I used to watch the Tarzan films as a kid - great. I used to read the Tarzan comics as a kid - fab. I think I read one Tarzan book as a kid - illiterate slob. But now I have built up my Tarzan book collection and have decided ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2009/01/17/what-did-they-do-to-tarzan/ A long time ago when I owned an Atari ST, I considered the mighty Protext my favourite word processor. Every so often I do a search to see what happened to it, thinking it might one day move into Freeware territory. And lo, on my last search it has. And ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2009/01/13/looking-for-the-perfect-word-processor/ I bought my Asus EEE with Linux pre-installed. And after 4 months with it - I've almost got subversion working with my Windows repository (but not quite). I've spent a lot of time fiddling with Linux to get 'expert' mode working and move icons onto the display. I upgraded the ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2009/01/04/im-just-not-ready-for-linux/ I've been getting sick of the Thunderbird spam filter - too much seems to get through. So I've moved over to gmail. What a great spam filter it has. So now gmail goes off to my pop3 accounts. And I access gmail through imap in Thunderbird. Any email ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2008/11/25/only-just-started-using-gmail-im-such-a-luddite/ I was looking up at the moon last night. The moon was full and very bright. And I wondered what would make it glow Because there's nothing up there to make it so. It has stones and rocks and rubble, ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2008/11/16/poem-shiny-moon/ ...like any journey, with an argument.   "What's that?" "What?" "That?" "This?" "Yes!" "That's my key." "Key? What's it the key to?" "None of your business." "Yes it is." ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2008/11/12/the-journey-to-llama-mountain-starts/ I have far too many blogs, and I haven't been very good at trimming out all the comment spam, but I thought I'd boost my diligence quota and get in there and mark the spam. blog 1 - 130 comments (all spam), ok that didn't take ... http://www.babygods.com/index.php/2008/10/09/aaaargh-comment-spam/