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After a lengthy delay due to my mother's back surgery and three weeks in rehab, the review for "The Mark of Gideon" is finally ready. I'm not sure why I chose this episode as my next to be reviewed, except that I had some good screen captures of the show. The review was typed up using Vim 6.3 and the HTML.vim plugin, and the video captures were organized using one of the most oddly-named programs ever: Photosite Timesaviour. [Every time I watch "Gideon", I keep thinking of the early 1980s song by Utopia, "Bad Little Actress." :-\ ] -----

While looking for some old desktop pictures, I came across these two screen snaps from my Mac OS 9 days. The first is a screen shot of Napster from the "good old days" (ah, remember those?) [By the time an official Napster client was released for the Mac, Napster was on its way out. This is, however, a shot of the official client, although all Napster did was take a 3rd-party client and change the name from Macster to Napster, plus change the interface appearance slightly.] The second is a rare, rare instance of my connecting to the Internet at 52000. The screen shot is from FreePPP (an old dialer for Macs) and the modem was not an Apple Internal--it was a Teleport USB external modem (pity they don't work with OS X). The speedy session didn't last long: my iMac froze up about 15 minutes later and had to be force-restarted via straightened paper clip. :-\ -----