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I remember as a child looking at old photographs and thinking about how bland and uncolorful everything looked.   Not only were the photographs in black and white, but it even appeared that everything those photos would be drab, even if they were in color.   Cars were black.   Men dressed in grey and blue and black.   Buildings were grey stone.   Everything was so … blah.   So, I was stunned when I ran across a baby picture of my uncle from 1933 that was in color!  We even had some color home movies that predated Dorothy’s rendezvous with the Wizard.  (My grandfather was a Bell Labs employee, so he had access to technology that was not in common usage then.)

Patches were much the same way.   Many older patches are works of art, but the majority tend to be rather bland having just a few colors.  Sure, there is the ocassional colorful masterpiece, but that is the exception rather than the rule.

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I missed this a couple of days ago.   There have now been more than two thousand spam comments submitted to this blog!   Most were for various adult type products, obviously not suitable for this blog.

Thanks to the Akismet plug-in that comes with WordPress, the software that powers this blog, all but a very few were ever seen by anyone other than myself.   Even those were very quickly deleted.

The total number spam comments, as I write this, now stands at 2,071.   At his pace, I will probably hit 3000 before the end of Summer.