For my information, what works and what doesn’t work:
1. DSL signal is back and it’s powering the desktop via the Ethernet port on the computer.
2. The Airport base station is alarming because it’s configured to take in internet via its Ethernet port, but that isn’t hooked up. Preferences are in to make hooking up to [...]
And took the DSL with it. Granted, this Earthlink connection has always been iffy. It took an in-person visit by a Covad guy to get it working in the first place. Now all my shuffling components around while trying to fix the Airport network has made the modem drop the DSL connection and not pick [...]
Shortly after bombs shook London’s transport system, the IRA, long demonized as ruthless terrorists in Britain, has said it’ll be ending its armed struggle. This isn’t from Sinn Fein. This is from the IRA War Council. There is doubt and wariness from people used to hearing things like that from them and they’re entitled to [...]
From the moment I entered my apartment with the package to when I played the first song, it was less than 20 minutes and the hardest part was taking the wrapping off. What am I talking about? Airport Express. The apartment is now wireless. Not because I needed it, but because thanks to some people [...]
I’m on page 138 of the Michka Assayas book Bono in Conversation. I started reading it this morning. I had resisted for the longest time, claiming my busyness, the prevalence of U2 in my life. I was better off holding it until there was nothing to look forward to for a bit. So in this [...]
Bad:
1. Popular fiction books having an annoying propensity to *hedge* so much so that it sounds fake and done on purpose to suit the author’s purpose. While we all know everything in a novel is done to essentially fill a writer’s purpose, please make it transparent and so it doesn’t slap you in the face [...]
I have nothing left to say of worth other than I am in a puddle of overcomedness right now that I cannot even comprehend or fathom. My head blew off.
I’m sitting in a stinking swamp, it’s raining torrents, and I’ve been coughing for going on eight days straight now. And I’ve just heard one of the most exhilarating, intriguing things. Which one do I start with? The unlivable weather that’s forcing me to think of moving house seriously only to be stumped by how [...]
When visiting my aunt and uncle in the UK one year, I went along with them to look into this small British winery in the South Downs they had heard about via a magazine. It was in a green valley, misty, with a treacherous path that lead to it. Afer just about breaking off the [...]
People deserve to be told what they do wrong. The sham that was the original broadcast of the Live 8 shows on MTV and VH-1 generated enough response to get the message across. People must have written by the thousands. Thanks to those people, I’m in heaven right now watching the reairing WITHOUT COMMERCIALS. That’s [...]
I only saw a quick sketch of it on the BBC online which I read it early in the morning before going to work. Something about a bomb on the tube. Actually, at the time of the original news article, it only said there had been an explosion and the power system was suspected. At [...]