I finally made the switch to DSL (Verizon) and, as of tonight, I have officially ditched the old dial-up service.
There was a brief twinge of regret because I’ve had a mindspring.com email address since c. 1998. Mindspring was a fine service that I never had any problem with . . . until it was acquired by Earthlink. Once Earthlink took over, the dial-up service got progressively worse, sometimes connecting at below 33K, sometimes connecting but without any DNS so nothing resolved, sometimes not connecting at all. I would certainly not not recommend Earthlink, and I definitely didn’t consider going with Earthlink DSL for even a second.
We’ll see if service with Verizon is better. So far, I’ve been pleased — the install kit was brilliantly simple, a testament to user-friendliness, and the bandwidth has been consistent.
Of course, it also means the end to the old Ten Reasons Why. It, and my first weblog, Monkey-Mind, had been at http://gritter.home.mindspring.com since 2000. No more. Just a 404, if you go there. Ah well. Change. . .
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June has been (and will probably continue to be) a slow blogging month for me. Not only am I travelling way more than usual this month, not only is work going to kick my butt this month, but I’ve been miserable sick for the last few days. Too much information? Eh, deal with it. :-)
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Ah, looks like Stephen Downes is getting on board with my loathing of the “everything is a weblog and weblogs are everything” hype. ;-) Stephen’s dead-on right: the “Online Learning 2003 Weblogue” is just a discussion board masquerading as a weblog…and it’s not even a good costume!
As Stephen points in his post, attempts to define “weblog” continue to bounce around, so it’s high time someone put a stop to that with the definitive definition (is that redundant?).
That time is now, and that person is me. :-)
UPDATE (06/05/03, 5:20pm): Bitten by draft mode in MT again. Hit Publish by accident. When I switched it back to Draft, it was removed from the index page, but not the archives or RSS feed. Sigh. Seems you have to rebuild those to make that Publish/Draft change happen everyplace. Oh well. Learn something new every day.
Anyway, imagine my surprise when Stephen Downes picked up on this post. I had some changes I wanted to make to it, so I will add those as an addendum at the bottom of the post. However, since it already squeaked out of the cage, there’s no option but to let it loose.
Fly, little post! Be free!
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