Dave Reid

On a random whim, I signed myself up to get the LEGO catalog, a long lost friend I haven't seen since my elementary school days. The LEGO catalog is as glorious as I remember, but the prices are not. I always loved the City LEGOs, especially the emergency-response LEGOs and I always had a complete city put together.

I also miss K'Nex. Specifically, the first large-scale K'Nex roller coaster (see picture) that took up my entire room. Man was that was one big box of fun!

It's times like there that I'm sad that I sold all my LEGOs and K'Nex and no longer have them around. I guess it's for the best, but sometimes I just want to be a little kid again. If I had the money, I would be getting some LEGO MindStorm kits ASAP. Read more

So when I finally started to update this site, I accidentally deleted the database with all my posts. After trying to locate backups of any kind (I know... tsk tsk), searching through Technorati and Google caches to no avail, I found my new best friend: Internet Wayback Machine results for davereid.net. Behold, nearly every single page I've had on this domain since November 2005! Not sure I'll be able to recreate comments though, but I'm so happy right now I could cry.

HAH! As a special bonus, I found my first hand-coded blog from davereid.org.

And don't forget, back up your databases regularly.