shrewsbury Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:52:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Farewell to a St. Louis Christmas tradition https://dfarq.homeip.net/farewell-to-a-st-louis-christmas-tradition/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farewell-to-a-st-louis-christmas-tradition https://dfarq.homeip.net/farewell-to-a-st-louis-christmas-tradition/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:33 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6616 I saw something sad in the papers this week: Macy’s is closing its downtown St. Louis store, the former flagship Famous-Barr (or Famous and Barr, if you’re old enough) store. And that means this past Christmas was the last Christmas

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/farewell-to-a-st-louis-christmas-tradition/feed/ 1 6616 Value Village and Affton could be very good for one another https://dfarq.homeip.net/value-village-and-affton-could-be-very-good-for-one-another/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=value-village-and-affton-could-be-very-good-for-one-another Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:00:09 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6550 There’s a Value Village thrift store in Shrewsbury that’s being displaced because the plaza it’s in–the same place I used to go to buy Commodore gear–is going to be demolished to make way for a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Whether Shrewsbury needs

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]]> 6550 Busted at the Safeway for phone phreaking https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking https://dfarq.homeip.net/busted-at-the-safeway-for-phone-phreaking/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:48:52 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=5806 Software developer, author, and blogger Jeff Atwood wrote his confessions of the 1980s this week. As a teenager and not-quite-adult, he was a phone phreaker. More of this went on than anyone wants to admit. Rob O’Hara has podcasted about

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