Scott Mackie
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Scott Mackie
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Lapsed Ginger. Scottish. Retired Internet Plumber. Old Macs. Splinter Maker. Photography. SF Giants. Snark. MDANT. Santa Cruz. Kendal.

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Ooo! Posh leech detox therapy…
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
It gets better…
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Been a while since I’ve seen a photo but that is one hell of a boiler he’s squeezing into that pleather jacket these days…
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Yup. In a standard Amazon box with brown paper packing. The drives were in factory sealed Seagate and WD antistatic bags but just dumped into a box.

Makes you wonder about the warehouse hopper they came out of
November 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Yup. This goes double for hard drives. Actual real brands but I’ve now had two “new” 3.5” drives show up in anti-static bags, loose in a box, with paper packing around them. You’ll be unsurprised to hear they were both DOA…
November 20, 2025 at 10:33 AM
November 20, 2025 at 10:03 AM
At this rate, in a few years time we’re going to be trading non-connected non-subscription cars like they’re 1960s Leicas…
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It’s okay, Jo. I’m told 2026 is the Year Of The Desktop for Linux…
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The company I worked for then on Jay Street in Santa Clara had it’s offices above a small chip startup in the unit below called Nvidia…
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Fucked Company was terrific reading, especially for those of us in the Valley at the time. The current AI nonsense feels like late 1999 but on steroids.

Some of the IPO nonsense that happened in the Bay Area in 99/2000 was just insane. The number of people who went fiscally mad was immense…
November 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
OMFG. Grew up in East Kilbride with those haircuts. I didn’t know they were back. Time is a flat circle, etc
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Confuse her by sitting in next door’s kitchen…
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I fear someone in W1A has had a Radical Brand Synergy Insight…
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Is this some kind of horrifying Strictly tie-in for this week?
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM