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Hazards

It's a very bad idea to go driving late at night around here with your windows down. You are very likely to get hit in the face by a lawn sprinkler.

Me, I don't mind. Washes off my glasses. I think Napalm objects to my getting the leather interior all wet, though.

I didn't realize until tonight that the .us top level domain was available for regular folks to obtain now. I had a customer who had an account all set up for one of these, but hadn't actually registered it yet, and I was starting to fret that they'd gone and done something foolish. But lo, NegiYo's registrar partner deals in .us domains, and apparently so do all the others as well. Wow.

Dunno if I mentioned it before, but Wlofie's server is now online 24/7, thanks to the magic of DSL. It was looking for a long time as though DSL would never be available in that region because of the local telco's stranglehold on the very market they were trying to bury, but someone must have amassed some leverage because kaboom! it was there. It did not take him long to obtain service either. The thing that makes us in the US shake our heads is that it's costing him, on the span of a year, about the same to have DSL as it was to have 56k dialup. Sure the installation fee was a lot steeper, and the monthly charges greater, but when you compare that against the telephone charges he was racking up (no such thing as a local free call, folks), in the medium range it begins to look like break-even. In the long range it looks like actually saving money.

He's also done away with a good portion of the password protection, too. I didn't think it was very conducive to sharing information and making visitors feel welcome, and he either concurred or went along - it's hard to tell.

His site's a little thick in techie stuff, but I know some folks who will enjoy that just fine. His journal is pretty opinionated and cynical, but I know folks who will enjoy that too. I do.

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