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I was only just saying to a relative that Catcher in the Rye has been made obsolete by LiveJournal.

Let's not forget jottit.com. Aaron's website to make notes. It was useful back in the day.

I tried to submit my website to Gigablast, but apparently it costs 25 cents.

This doesn't make any sense to me for a search engine.

I wanted to add my site to Gigablast, but it said it would cost 25 cents. How is this a good thing?

Fair enough. I was definitely searching comments (not stories), but I might not have filtered by Date, hence the lack of recent results.

My meaning was just that I saw it sometimes referenced on HN, but I haven't seen it mentioned for a while now. Hence my search and results showing 8 years since.

I guess what I should be doing is looking at the Alexa ranking of Wolfram Alpha.

I had Ultima 6 for the Atari ST. Running off floppies was kind of slow. My friend's Atari ST machine had 4MB of memory. So I set up a 3MB RAM disk. And installed the game to 'hard disk' with the RAM disk as the hard disk. Then all I had to do was format some floppies to really high density. The entire U6 installation fitted on (I think) 2 floppies. I also used a rapid file copy program.

I copied the files to RAM disk, played the game, saved the game, quit the game, and saved the files back to floppies.

Just thought it would interest someone.

I ordered 2 books from Amazon last week. An email said 'delivered' but nothing in the letterbox or outside the house. A chat to a friendly neighbour revealed he had a parcel put in between his dustbins. I went to my bins and there were the books. Not pleased at this, I expect a sane experience.

XP had no modern browser... Until now!

    http://www.mypal-browser.org

800,000 users can't be wrong (out of 240 million XP users worldwide).

This project is important because Firefox stopped working on XP 4 years ago - and you can't do things like captchas without a modern browser.

I use an Epoc32 emulator on my PC so I can do Agenda on that, and it beeps me my reminders.

I got sick of buying Psion 5's and 5MX's because they always broke in 6 months.

I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.

I once emailed Bob Yannes in 1998 about the C64 SID chip. I mentioned my soft synth (SoftSID) and the Elektron Sidstation. But all he was bothered about was his Ensoniq Fizmo. I'd love to get my hands on one of those now.

I told him of the bad review in Future Music. He was a bit annoyed but explained what they had missed in the review.

A nice guy.