Fixed?

After two and a half months, I think the DSL issue is finally resolved. And the connection is about five times faster too. That vibration you just felt was a dramatic shift in my disposition…

DSL Blues

Fucking miserable Pac Bell DSL. This is the first reasonably stable connection I’ve had since Friday, and it’s Sunday now and it’s too late for me to care. That said, though, Mark did manage to get his revamped site uploaded. You should go see it now…

Technician number four comes tomorrow afternoon…

Election Stuff

Without hesitation, I deem the first paragraph of this page the best-expressed and most sensible election commentary I’ve read on the web this week…

Last time I checked, the apocalypse had not yet occurred. And those who are currently feeling suicidal, planning that move to Canada, or whatever will probably — given the passage of a few days — find some excuse to continue living life pretty much just as they’ve been doing for the past few years…

Today in San Francisco? A beautiful, stormy day with a rare clap or two of thunder, even. I just get all giddy when the rainy season finally arrives…

Winter Cleaning

Funny, those projects you just sort of get started on even when you had no intention of doing so. Tonight’s involved cleaning up the old bookmarks file. I killed off a few I’d had around since about 1995 (many of which havn’t worked since 1996) and organized the rest. I keep a pretty organized set of bookmarks anyway, but it was getting a little hairy in there…

Now if I could just do something with the “in progess” directory on my hard drive…