The joys of broadband

I’ve recently gotten broadband service at home. When it works, it works great, but unfortunately our provider has decided to use some new bleeding-edge equipment that doesn’t play well with the houses on our street. The network uses the same co-ax as our cable TV, and if our TV “accidentally” sends voltage out the cable (which apparently some TVs do) it fries some critical piece of network equipment.


So, it can work great for weeks at a time, then be out for days and days. So I had no network access at home from noonish last Friday until today. And just when I had started messing with this blog! Crikey.

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the first entry

blog this, blog that, blog blog blog. everyone’s got a blog now, right?


i actually started blogging years ago, creating a quickly-abandoned site that is still floating around on a free webserver somewhere. In those days, I was relying on the web-based blogging system at blogger.com, which was just too prickly to really want to use on a regular basis. Now I’ve stumbled across this new-fangled blosxom doohickey which looks like it will make my blogging efforts a bit more manageable. We’ll see!

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