Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

This morning I got a rather odd email purporting to be from LinkedIn‘s Marketing department. It made it through all my filters and the headers look reasonable, but based on the poor formatting of the email and the fact I’ve been on LinkedIn a long time, I don’t think it is completely on the level. [...]

I’ve had a website online for a long time, longer than most corporations, and for the last ten or so years it has been at Muschamp.ca hosted mostly by a company that called DixieSys. There are a lot of crappy webhosts out there, the first cheap one I tried basically sold more bandwidth than he [...]

Peter Jackson, yes the bloke who made the Lord of the Rings movies collects miniatures. This isn’t news, he got the Perry Brothers to sculpt an entire unit of ANZACs in some weird scale. That’s right he paid to have each model hand sculpted, none were cast, he just displays the masters. It’s nice to [...]

I have done very little today so I might as well blog about it. I slept in, I played Bejeweled Blitz. I’m even currently in first among my Facebook friends. But I did finally talk to Bell. I’ve never got to see my full bill online. I automatically pay it every month. But before Thanksgiving [...]

I just received this email, not one word has been changed: My name is Captain Matthew Stamford of the US Marine corps stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan, I found some money stashed in a couple of barrels while on patrol ($2,000,000.00) I need someone to help me move it to a safer place, please have it [...]