Jason Scott's Weblog
Life working as an archivist for The Internet Archive has been going fantabulous, thanks for asking. I start to feel like one of those individuals tweeting or writing about “being in an amazing environment working with great people on world-changing projects”, except in fact I am not working in some primary-color-and-convenient-free-coffee cube farm that is […]
OH HI THERE. I’m Jason Scott, and if you’re reading this you probably have me in some sort of RSS or Feed Reader. And, in some cases, you had the feed suddenly blast out a bunch of new entries where the last one was from some time in December. So, it appears some hackery got […]
So, I have a pretty major problem with the feed. It doesn’t update in a lot of clients. It updates in others. But my readership is wondering if I died. I’m working hard to figure out what’s going on, but it takes time – if previous situations are any indication, it’s some sort of ass-kicking […]
So how’s that information cube coming, anyway? Well, structurally, that cube’s doing pretty darn well. It’s been solid, watertight, continually huge, and quietly has done its job since I got it in early 2010. It has also been packed up pretty hard, and some items had drifted or gone into the house, where they were […]
Let me explain what this is: What you’re looking at is what happens when things get a little out of control with all the computer history, with a dash of major miscommunication. Let’s take a better look: What you’re looking at is a collection of 79 cardboard boxes, extra-strength, that contain every legal document held […]
My RSS feed appears to be broken. Feel free to check out the main site if you’re on the feeder and I’ll see what I can do.
After a week or so of duping ISOs on the side, here is the collection as it currently stands. These will be eventually uploaded to cd.textfiles.com and its mirrors. I’m happy to say two people have stepped forward and CD.TEXTFILES.COM will have two mirrors, CDMIRROR.TEXTFILES.COM and CDMIRROR2.TEXTFILES.COM. This makes me feel a ton better about […]
The Information Cube, the new home of the TEXTFILES.COM Archives and a direct result of the Sabbatical funding I received last year, is coming along nicely. I learned a lot about what crates and storage boxes work and do not work, I can say that – I’ve found which collapse under their own weight, which […]
So, I recently got a slight hair reduction: I mention this for two reasons: A lot of people have only known me in the past 5 years or less, and have never known a time where I didn’t have some level of hair or goatee. I don’t want to be refused entry for the time […]
Hey, I made a movie a while ago: When I first started putting together this project, I had hubris indeed, and ordered 5000 copies, which is what showed up. That was in May of 2005. Pre-orders were great – nearly 900. This paid for the duplication. After it came out, additional sales paid off the […]