And I Feel Fine, Act 2: Ghost Town
In which our hero becomes undead, but finally passes on.
Hidden City
The stories, essays, dreams, and delusions of Marc Kevin Hall
25 November 2009
22 November 2009
And I Feel Fine, Act 1: Ragnarok
In which our hero faces the awful truth, and says goodbye to his companions of many years.
13 November 2009
Air Tran: How to Fail
I was surprised to discover a few months back that Air Tran had started accepting PayPal for airline tickets. Now I know a lot of people have issues with PayPal, but I was impressed by this sign of modernization in an industry which has been somewhat slow to accept change, or even to recognize that [...]
A mystery solved, and a laugh
Yes, Hidden City decided to revert to April of 2008 again last night. Fortunately, I have at long last determined the cause. When someone comments of a Volume 3 post (this is technically Hidden City Volume four, the quaternary incarnation since its launch eleven years ago), then Blogger sees fit to perform an unrequested republication [...]
3 November 2009
Ninety-Four to Go?
As a follow-up to this proceeding post, I wonder if Adobe’s use of this “error” screen when an iPhone attempts to view Flash content is analogous to Martin Luther nailing his Ninety-Five Theses to church doors? This has to be painful for a lot of Apple faithful, since many, many of them use and/or develop [...]